Little difference between Haswell and Skylake According to Luke

[Kevguy]

So, there you have it folks, not really much gain for a i7-6700k over an i7-4790k.

Edited August 26, 2015 by Godlygamer23
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[Imakuni]

So, there you have it folks, not really much gain for a i7-6700k over an i7-4790k.

In gaming? No.

 

But do you see that grey medal under my picture? Yeah, that's an application (in one particular use) in which Skylake provided more than 30% increase in performance, according to recent testing. And that's because the thing wasn't even optimized yet, imagine when it's done!

 

Learn to interpret data, as well as quote it correctly / in the right context.

[Kevguy]

In gaming? No.

 

But do you see that grey medal under my picture? Yeah, that's an application (in one particular use) in which Skylake provided more than 30% increase in performance, according to recent testing. And that's because the thing wasn't even optimized yet, imagine when it's done!

Not sure what you are barking about, but anyways....

[EliasNM]

For those who understand benchmarks posted, we got that right away, Sandy/Ivy CPUs are still the best CPU lineups from Intel imo. It just goes to show that smaller architecture is not that great added that on-die VRM's are not the best idea. Power consumption is great no one disagrees to a certain degree but Broadwell/Haswell really setback Intel in providing more performance. I blame them not using the same team as Sandy/Ivy.

[MblaZe7run]

Not sure what you are barking about, but anyways....

@Imakuni is saying that there is not really a gaming performance improvement. But for raw compute power, which is what I believe folding to use, there is a difference. A processor can improve in one way and not another, like a vehicle can be better than the competition in one way, but not another.

[Imakuni]

For those who understand benchmarks posted, we got that right away, Sandy/Ivy CPUs are still the best CPU lineups from Intel imo. It just goes to show that smaller architecture is not that great added that on-die VRM's are not the best idea. Power consumption is great no one disagrees to a certain degree but Broadwell/Haswell really setback Intel in providing more performance. I blame them not using the same team as Sandy/Ivy.

No, I blame AMD for not offering competition to push Intel into developing better hardware.

 

Or Russia and their new chip, whatever it may be.....

[Kevguy]

No, I blame AMD for not offering competition to push Intel into developing better hardware.

 

Or Russia and their new chip, whatever it may be.....

Good point. With AMD falling behind, not much jumps ahead in each new processor from Intel. It's more of baby steps so that they can put products on the market and make sales/revenue/money.

[EliasNM]

No, I blame AMD for not offering competition to push Intel into developing better hardware.

 

Or Russia and their new chip, whatever it may be.....

Kinda true, AMD does need to step up. There needs to be real competition not reachable overclock speed that a CPU can reach, ok AMD you win that but that is old like 3 years old now. Intel has not done much to progress like I mentioned, if Intel wants to stay ahead they should of used the Israeli team again not the Californian team, smaller architectures are proving to be just numbers no real jump in benchmarks, but like I care I've used Intel all my life and feed them my money on countless occasion but seriously AMD has let Intel monopolize the CPU market.

[SteveGrabowski0]

Luke tested at 4k lol, of course CPU doesn't matter a whole lot at that resolution with a single card. Digital Foundry showed a nice boost in some games when CPU bound (e.g., for someone targeting 120+ fps). Might as well say an FX-8350 is as good as an i7-6700k since games will be GPU bound with a single 980 Ti at 4k then too.