Xeon X5698 vs. I7-990x vs. I7-2600k@4.5g

[89ycha]

I just purchased Xeon X5698. This is very interesting CPU.
I couldnt really find any bench information on X5698, really curious how it would perform against 990x and 2600k on single-dual core intensive tasks like pi-test.

Is there anything special about this X5698 on process procedures?? I heard some rumors that this was specially designed for HFT(high frequency trading) in Wall street.

 

[tweakboy]

OMG the 990x is ancient. 2600k @ 4.5Ghz will not give bottleneck. Faster card higher frame rates thx to CPU doing its thing. gl

 

[Burpo]

Just a dual core with hyper threading & not very fast compared to quad cores & up.. Here's the benchmark.. Not very impressive..
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+X5698+@+4.40GHz

Hex core I7 990X score (more than twice as fast!)
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7+X+990+@+3.47GHz

The Hex core X5690 compares closely to the 990X tho..
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Xeon+X5690+@+3.47GHz

 

[NTMBK]

"Not very impressive"? It's a 4.4GHz processor! I wonder whether Intel still do this kind of thing? I wonder what they could clock an Ivy Bridge-E to if they disable most of the cores...