A better comparison would be the 5960X, which scores ~16000: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-5960X+%40+3.00GHz&id=2332 https://www.cpuben

A better comparison would be the 5960X, which scores ~16000: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-5960X+%40+3.00GHz&id=2332 https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i7-5960X... There's no way you could call the $600 5930K "medium range" though :)