CPU Performance
This benchmark is a measure of single-threaded frequency and instructions-per-clock cycle throughput. And the higher shipping frequency explains why the Core i7-5930K is a tad quicker than the Core i7-5960X. The Devil's Canyon chip, meanwhile, heads the charts due to its 4.4GHz turbo boost speed.
Here's something interesting. The Core i7-5930K shares the same design as the last-generation Core i7-4960X but runs at lower frequencies. The improvements in the Haswell architecture over Ivy Bridge provide a healthy dollop of extra IPC performance. The Core i7-5930K becomes the second processor to crash through the 1,000-mark barrier.
No obvious differences between architectures in the all-core wPrime. The graph presents an easy-to-understand performance hierarchy based on cores and threads. Eight cores and 16 threads at the top, four cores and four threads at the bottom.
