CPU Performance
PiFast takes advantage of a single thread and prefers frequency over cores. The Core i7-5960X opportunistically boosts up to 3.5GHz, and based as it is on the Haswell architecture, cannot match the times posted by the higher-speed Core i7-4790K and Core i5-4690K processors. Intel continues to dominate this test.
The poster child for multi-core usage is Cinebench. The latest version of the benchmark takes advantage of as many cores as you can throw at it. Six-core, 12-thread Core i7-3960X and 4960X used to be the leaders, but the eight-core, 16-thread Core i7-5960X sets a completely unrivalled standard.
wPrime, too, loves cores and threads. The Core i7-5960X is almost twice as fast as the AMD FX-9590 chip. Again, no other processor comes close to matching the new CPU's sheer throughput in a well-tuned application.
