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vivster on 09 August 2017
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Pemalite said:
vivster said:
The i9 7900X seems like a nice upgrade to a 6850K.

Depends.

The i7 6850K is half the price of the i9 here. Uses less power. (Load and Idle).
And in lightly threaded applications there is a minimal performance gain.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1905?vs=1728

So unless you have a use for the extra 4x CPU cores. I wouldn't bother upgrading.

Now if you are on a Westemere, Thuban, Bulldozer Hex/Octo... That is an entirely different story.

Should've looked at computerbase benchmarks first. In my relevant applications the 7900X is about 3-5% better than the 3850K. That's not enough to upgrade. Though it could still do noticeably better when I consider that my numerous side applications will be spread over more cores, which leaves more resources for more intensive stuff like gaming.

So overall it might be 10% increase maybe when playing RL with numerous other applications.



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