IceMyth :
I think I read somewhere (of course speculations) that the 8core will have 2 difference base clock but the price is something between 400-600$ which I hope, but either ways I am getting the AMD 8Cores which I will need badly to process a hell load of data and for testing.
The 2nd interesting thing is Vega, the new AMD GPU, but no details about when they are going to release it but seems it can match Titan X performance.
the leaks that they had, which at least partially discredited now, had 2 8 core skus, 1 6 core and 1 4core that would come later, likely failed 8 core units.
the prices were 350 and 500 for the 8 core.
Personally, the only thing that makes me wonder is the moba benchmark, as they had a 6700 and a 6900 there for comparison... why use a 6700, why not an i5, or an i3, or even a 6800/6850?
I'm taking this as 'this is what you get (the 6900) for this price (the 6700)'
synphul :
I'm leery of a single benchmark. Hopefully more will follow. If we adhered to a single benchmark then we could cherry pick a benchmark where the fx 9590 matches an i7 5960x and call it a win. Of course that doesn't come close to painting the full picture. If looking at the webxprt benchmark scores, an fx 9590 slightly edges out the i7 6900k. Again it means very little.
In single threaded cinebench r15 the outdated 4790k beats out the 6900k and in many other tasks it's almost tied. Going back to that webxprt bench, the 4790k embarrasses the 6900k. There are several bench's where the outdated desktop i7 holds its own or surpasses the 6900k in performance and that's without overclocking it. I don't think it's time to pop the cork on the champagne just yet until more data is made available.
they showed off quite a few benches actually, though you would actually have to use the programs in a few of the cases to be able to gleam anything from them
1) blender
2) handbrake
3) vr
4) z brush
5) battlefield 1
6) keyshot
7) was that dota or lol + streaming?
then a non cpu
8) vega first look to the masses in battlefront, though not impressive, prior to this was doom on ultra at 4k
but for most people, the benefit of an actual 8 core never shows through in a benchmark as the benefit most people get are in tangible, things that aren't benchtable. my computer is rendering a video, i'm playing a game and OH NO windows decided to have update take out an entire cpu core.
On my quad core, windows doing that alone my computer may as well slit its wrists, but on 6 or even 8 cores, it can take the hit and not feel it. I render a video on my computer, and want to use chrome, well that is 1 cpu core at least, 2 if I want to have a smooth experience, and my render time just doubled, but with 8 cores, split the load and play a game unhindered.
you are going to have intel beat out amd just because they clock higher alone, at least till the 6 and 4 core variants come, that may change it, but if amd is even close to what intel can do, which it seems like they are, then thats it, my money is with amd for 8 cores 16 threads and a hell of alot better quality of life.
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