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Nope. Games are not optimized to use more than 4 cores if that. It'll be a waste of money. Best bang for the buck would be the 6700K. If you use programs that are multi-threaded, then yes, the 6950X would benefit you, otherwise the 6700K is the best choice.
There is benefit going for a 6 core / 12 thread CPU (6800K/6850K when it launches, or 5820K now) if you stream your gameplay.
Ive never seen a direct comparison. That said, the AMD chip beats out Intel's 4c/8t chips when streaming so..............maybe not?
I wonder why it was such a dramatic difference from the link I provided...............
That's good info to know.I am going by what actual streamers have been saying and experiencing.
The benches do not hold up IRL because streamers tend to have more applications open to monitor their stream activities. You cannot just have the game and OBS/xsplit running and get valid data.