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Hey everyone , i will compare both cpus that i have and would like someone telling me the difference between them. These are the i7-6700k and an i5-3330 .

If i use a gtx 970 with both cpus i would get like an additional 10 fps on the 6700k .

Regarding the price , i7 is $200 more expensive than the i5 and nearly double the i5's price.

If the gaming performance is the same , then what are the benefits of the i7 for the extra $200?? Thanks and sorry for my bad english.
 
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If you pair the 6700k with a better GPU than the 970 you'll see more gains. the 3330 and the 970 might've been fine, but if you upgrade the 970 to anything from Pascal you'll see significant gains.
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Better performance farther down the line than the i5, better performance in handling programs that have access to more threads, things like that. When you're gaming, the main portion of your PC that will get stressed should end up being your GPU, if you don't have a mismatched CPU-GPU. If you're running an FX4100 and a 980Ti, your CPU will be stressed more due to the fact that it's horrible. If you pair the 980Ti with a 6700k, the 980Ti should get stressed more as in games, your GPU is the single most important component in your PC.

For gaming, an i5 will run 95% of games with no issues whatsoever. The i7 is useful for the fact that it's hyperthreaded.
 
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First you need to decide on a platform. Those 2 CPUs use completely different motherboards.
i5-3330 - socket LGA1155 (Ivy Bridge)
i7-6700K - socket LGA1151 (Skylake)

If all you're doing is gaming then an i5 is all you need. i7 is for people who like to stream while gaming or render videos.
 
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in some games, the i5-3330 will be just not enough to utilize the GPU due to relatively low clock. Not to mention more powerful cards like GTX 1070.
so down the road, it will becom even less useful. The K CPUs (both i5 and i7) have much longer lifespan due to higher clocks by default and even more due to option to overclock them. So they can be used for the very powerful setups.
 
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"it's just silly to pay a bunch of money for longevity when a whole new series of CPUs and real competition is coming in just a few months"
By that logic, you should never buy a new computer. There will always be newer, bigger, and better technology on the horizon. Components should be bought by the need of the machine, not by the erroneous logic there's new tech coming out, ergo don't bother getting one. Would always just wait for the new stuff to come out.

As for some more differences between the two of them, Skylake is on a newer platform than Ivy Bridge, it's better with power, often comes higher clocked, more transistors on the die (newer architecture), and not only is the 6700k clocked a full GHz over the 3330, it also has a higher IPC, meaning that for each of those billion clocks-per-second you're getting over the 3330, you're also doing more with every single clock. Skylake also performs primarily with DDR4, while the 3330 performs with DDR3.
 
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What games and where in the games are you testing?
Most games are 80% + (guesstimation) CPU light and GPU intense but in the parts that are the opposite,CPU intense and GPU light, you will see much more then 10FPS difference.
For example GTA V is the most CPU intense in winewood bulevard,the witcher 3 in lemmingrad (or whatever it's called) and so on,testing those games in any other part of the game will show only minimal differences.

Other games like Pr3pared,arma,starcraft will show you a good improvement all over because they only run on 1-2 cores.
 
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What a nonsense comment. There's been zero competition from AMD for 5+ years now. Prices will plunge once zen comes out intel will almost undoubtedly up its core count at each stage as well.

So you should get some nonimprovement for 200 bucks extra that won't run any games noticeably better when in a year later you will be able to get a 6 core for the same price? lol

 
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Intel won't end up upping core count as Zen (from what's been released so far) still doesn't have the IPC that Skylake has, nor does it have the clock speeds that consumer Intel CPUs have. Their single threaded operation is still going to be better than AMDs. Prices will plunge on old AMD cpus, not on Intel CPUs. And the difference from an i5 to an i7 of equal quality isn't $200, it's $100. The difference in the two CPUs in the thread is quite high given that the i5 "equivalent" of the 6700k in Ivy bridge should be the 3570k, not the 3330, which cost a significant amount less than the 3570k, accounting for the $200 difference in the two of them.

But once again, this goes back to the logic that you shouldn't buy something now because in a year there will be better technology. A year after that... there will be better technology. And guess what! A year after that, there will be even better technology. I agree on the front of paying more for something that will give you the same results is in and of itself poor judgement. But you'll notice the difference later on down the road when games are able to played on an i7 that are now being bottlenecked by an i5.

As for Zen, it has yet to be seen if it'll flop or not. I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it currently as the only specs I've seen have a processor of 8C/16T that are running at 3GHz. If there's more than that, please show me.
 
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I have both cpus , i got the i7 and the motherboard and the ram and the cooler a month ago assuming that the build would be "new" or atleast not a low end pc for the next 3-4 years before i upgrade again
 
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