Flagship Intel Skylake-S Core i7-6700K CPU benchmarked
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ScoobyDooby
Well well. Guess my 2600k better strap in and get comfortable :/
tsunami231
6700k looks tasty compared to my cpu, then again i sure by the time I actual get around to rebuiling my pc with new CPU/MB/RAM there will be alot more tatsty looking gear hah
lucidus
Lol .. Haswell is pretty damned fast as it is so I'm not surprised. What else is new in it other than GPU stuff and 14nm?
lmimmfn
Im shocked, its junk, lets hope DX12 reduces the requirement of high IPC and favours more cores.
Noisiv
Add another 5% for 200 MHz lower clock,
and its 10% better single core performance.
tsunami231
according tho at sight it dont have built in gpu
ScoobyDooby
I don't think most people here are referring to the laptop segment, which definitely has seen big boosts to efficiency.. its the desktop market, a market that makes up the largest portion of enthusiasts here on this site, where the gains are pretty pitiful.
The fact that people are still using 4 year old quad cores is all that needs to be said really.
Undying
Looks like i'm gonna stay with Sandy. Maybe i'll just get some cheap 2600k if needed 8 threads.
As usual, no competition is a bad thing.
Denial
Honestly why does anyone care?
If Intel released a 20% per thread faster CPU, what would happen? General performance would what, become more instant than now? -- it's already like instant for 99% of applications.
Gaming? Nearly every new title released in the last few years is GPU bottlenecked. A faster processor isn't going to do ****.
Want proof?
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/66683-intel-devils-canyon-i7-4790k-performance-review-10.html
They overclocked a 4970 by 16% -- effectively improving thread performance by 16%.
The results?
Assassins Creed - 4.3%
Battlefield 4 - 8.9%
COD Ghosts - 4.5%
Crysis 3 - 3.9%
Farcry 3 - 3.4%
Hitman - 6%
Thief - 4.2%
Tomb Raider - 3.1%
Aside from BF4, laughable. And even then a 8% gain in performance for a 16% increase in thread performance is terrible, considering it increased power by 19%.
It has nothing to do with competition and more to do with the fact that there literally is no point to increase thread performance. The workloads that require more performance benefit from more cores, which is easier to scale for. General performance is good enough and gaming performance is barely effected.
In the mean time mobile is the new black. Intel is focused there, thus all the architecture enhancement go towards power efficiency. It's really that simple.
tsunami231
I would kill for 35watt cpu with power of 6700k, show me mobile cpu that does that in fact show me gpu like 980ti that does it work in 35watt. that would be amazing but i think we got ways to go before we see this
Neo Cyrus
For being clocked 200MHz lower that's actually decent when you consider Intel is competing against no one at all. They could release a potato with i7 sprayed on it and it would sell at this point.
What I'm wondering is how much can it OC? 5GHz with the per clock performance that thing has would be monstrous. And by monstrous I mean what we should have already had if Intel had any competition.
Spets
Not sure if I should go for a Skylake-S or a Haswell-E setup now.
tsunami231
what?
fantaskarsef
If those benches are correct, it does not look like much of an improvement, unless anybody buys that CPU because of the iGPU that supposedly is better.
:3eyes:
moab600
intel trolling while AMD doing nothing, intel for many years just competing with itself.
Ryu5uzaku
I am getting 8 core intel once "affordable" one comes around. Could use that performance in ue4 actually. So next year I guess.
While I am happy that my 3770K is going strong no need for upgrade.
XenthorX
Show me a Skylake-S Processor you can buy right now, and we might help you x)
isidore
What a bunch of crap, my 2700k is still as fast as that in gaming, really now, 4 generations have almost past the it seems CPU's are still in the same area of performance in games. Anyway it's good for me cause i don't have to upgrade yet. I hope Zen will show promise and i can finally go back to AMD.
xIcarus
I was 90% sure this was going to be the case.
Oh well.. *cuddles his sandy chip*
Ven0m
Actually, I think that the speedup is pretty good, especially if we consider power requirements too. It's around 10% faster compared to the clock speed of Haswell, which is already fast.
I wonder how much it'll overclock and how hot it'll get.
My basic idea is 6700K for gaming/rendering machine or 5820K or wait even more while using old hardware.
