Overclocking the chip to 4.5GHz does help it leapfrog the 4960X and 5960X flagships, but Devil's Canyon's speedy clock rate and high performance DDR3 keep it cemented to the top two positions. High clock speed and fast, low-latency memory keep the Devil's Canyon chip out in front for the single-threaded test.Ī low CPU clock speed and loose timings for its 2400MHz DDR4 hinder the 5820K's performance in Super Pi. The 5820K outperforms a 4790K by about 18% in the stock multi-threaded test – a lead that extends to 36% when both chips are overclocked.

Overclocked to the same frequency as our 4960X, and the Haswell micro-architecture shows its underlying improvements with performance gains in the single- and multi-threaded tests. We measured the average frame rate achieved for a task of converting a 4.36GB 720P H.264 movie (in the MKV container) to one in the MP4 container.Īt its 3.6GHz MCT speed, the twelve-thread 5820K performs almost identically to IVB-E's flagship in Cinebench. We used the 32M test in Super Pi to analyse single-threaded performance. The benchmark also shows noticeable scaling with clock frequency and cache size.

We used the ‘CPU’ test built into Cinebench R15.Ĭinebench is effectively optimised to scale its workload across a CPU's threads.

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