I put the new Haswell-E lineup through its paces in the synthetic benchmarking arena—where most overclockers seek their purchase entitlement. System integrity was verified prior, so everything was set to go for these synthetic runs.
AIDA 64
SuperPi
Handbrake
Cinebench
WinRAR
The synthetic benchmarks reveal a marginal improvement over the Intel Core i7-4960X. Most tests show over a 2.4% improvement. AIDA read/write speeds even improved by close to 6.8% (which is a somewhat noticeable improvement).