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Is the Intel Core i7-6950X @ 3.00GHz Good for Gaming?
This is a fairly old CPU that is no longer competitive with newer CPUs. [More ...]
Description:
Class: Desktop
Socket: LGA2011-v3
Clockspeed: 3.0 GHz
Turbo Speed: 4.0 GHz
Cores: 10 Threads: 20
Typical TDP: 140 W
Cache per CPU Package:
L1 Instruction Cache: 10 x 32 KB
L1 Data Cache: 10 x 32 KB
L2 Cache: 10 x 256 KB
L3 Cache: 25 MB
Other names: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-6950X CPU @ 3.00GHz
CPU First Seen on Charts: Q2 2016
CPUmark/$Price: 63.77
Overall Rank:
844th fastest in multithreading out of 5025 CPUs
1097th fastest in single threading out of 5025 CPUs
280th fastest in out of 1418 Desktop CPUs
Last Price Change: $274.86 USD (2025-03-06)
Integer Math | 63,895 MOps/Sec |
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Floating Point Math | 41,415 MOps/Sec |
Find Prime Numbers | 79 Million Primes/Sec |
Random String Sorting | 35,391 Thousand Strings/Sec |
Data Encryption | 5,091 MBytes/Sec |
Data Compression | 279,288 KBytes/Sec |
Physics | 1,223 Frames/Sec |
Extended Instructions | 17,622 Million Matrices/Sec |
Single Thread | 2,337 MOps/Sec |
Merchant | Price | Purchase |
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Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
---|---|---|
Intel Core i9-13900K | 58,794 | |
Intel Core i9-12900K | 41,332 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 39,053 | |
Intel Core i7-12700K | 34,512 | |
Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 22,124 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 21,873 | |
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 18,201 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 17,720 | |
Intel Core i7-6950X @ 3.00GHz | 17,528 | |
Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 15,624 | |
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 14,144 |
Processor | CPU Mark / $Price | |
---|---|---|
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 222.69 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 212.38 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 150.23 | |
Intel Core i9-12900K | 138.30 | |
Intel Core i9-13900K | 105.77 | |
Intel Core i7-12700K | 84.38 | |
Intel Core i7-6950X @ 3.00GHz | 63.77 | |
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 49.21 | |
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | NA | |
Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | NA | |
Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | NA |
Processor | Average Thread Rating | |
---|---|---|
Intel Core i9-13900K | 4,613 | |
Intel Core i9-12900K | 4,144 | |
Intel Core i7-12700K | 4,020 | |
Apple M2 8 Core 3500 MHz | 3,901 | |
Apple M1 Max 10 Core 3200 MHz | 3,836 | |
Apple M1 8 Core 3200 MHz | 3,682 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X | 3,470 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 5600X | 3,363 | |
Intel Core i9-9900K @ 3.60GHz | 2,923 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 3600 | 2,564 | |
Intel Core i7-6950X @ 3.00GHz | 2,337 |
Baseline | CPU Mark | |
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BL2469913 - Mar 10 2025 | 20104 | |
BL2465470 - Mar 08 2025 | 19379 | |
BL2462755 - Mar 07 2025 | 19339 | |
BL2461335 - Mar 06 2025 | 19997 | |
BL2450631 - Mar 01 2025 | 16559 |
Processor | Average CPU Mark | |
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Intel Core i7-6950X @ 3.00GHz | 17,528 | |
Intel Core i9-7900X @ 3.30GHz vs Intel Core i7-6950X | 21,048 (+20.1%) | |
Intel Core i7-5960X @ 3.00GHz vs Intel Core i7-6950X | 13,326 (-24.0%) | |
Intel Core i7-11700F @ 2.50GHz vs Intel Core i7-6950X | 20,836 (+18.9%) | |
Intel Core i7-11700 @ 2.50GHz vs Intel Core i7-6950X | 20,710 (+18.2%) | |
AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 4750G vs Intel Core i7-6950X | 20,370 (+16.2%) | |
AMD Ryzen 7 4700G vs Intel Core i7-6950X | 20,114 (+14.8%) | |
Intel Core i7-10700K @ 3.80GHz vs Intel Core i7-6950X | 18,681 (+6.6%) | |
Intel Core i7-10700KF @ 3.80GHz vs Intel Core i7-6950X | 18,481 (+5.4%) | |
Intel Core i9-9900KF @ 3.60GHz vs Intel Core i7-6950X | 18,176 (+3.7%) | |
Intel Core i7-10700F @ 2.90GHz vs Intel Core i7-6950X | 16,310 (-7.0%) | |
AMD Ryzen 7 1700X vs Intel Core i7-6950X | 15,662 (-10.6%) | |
AMD Ryzen 7 1700 vs Intel Core i7-6950X | 14,800 (-15.6%) |
Processor | Relative Gaming Score | |
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AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D | 12,193 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D | 11,502 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 7900X3D | 10,858 | |
AMD Ryzen 5 7600X3D | 10,580 | |
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K | 10,524 | |
AMD Ryzen 7 7800X3D | 10,297 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D | 9,831 | |
Intel Core Ultra 5 245K | 9,723 | |
Intel Core Ultra 7 265K | 9,518 | |
Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF | 9,476 | |
Intel Core Ultra 5 235 | 9,467 | |
AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D | 9,257 | |
Intel Core i7-6950X @ 3.00GHz | 2,272 |