Intel i7-6700K Skylake CPU Benchmarks Appear

[BiG StroOnZ]

Source: http://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-intel_core_i7_6700k-518

Pretty decent increases considering the 6700k is clocked at 4.2GHz and the 4790k is clocked at 4.4GHz. So, Multi-threaded Cinebench scores are up ~15% clock for clock and single threaded ones ~8%. So all in all seems pretty good. About 15% increase in IPC over Haswell. I know some people are going to complain that it is not that much of an improvement, but seems like a pretty decent improvement overall. 15% increase in IPC is pretty nice. Other workloads might show better improvements. I think I am pretty pleased with these results, of course it's on the low end of my IPC predictions for Skylake but it's still a pretty decent improvement for someone who is on Sandy Bridge or Pre-SB at this point. Also we have yet to see overclocking potential, and if they decided to use solder this generation for low temps instead of that terrible TIM between the die and the heat spreader. So more to be revealed shortly.

[Krills]

o snap.

[Aniallation]

Lower boost clock then 4790K. Interesting.

 

Also, i5-6600K and i7-6700 non-K

[bcredeur97]

naaice. A good bit better than ivy bridge. 

Sandy Bridge customers I think should upgrade to skylake.

[IMPERIUS]

noice. Won't be able to afford it tho

[TrickedProGaming]

I'm curious about overclocking with the new Skylake processors  :rolleyes:

[Prashank]

I don't want to see these now, just brought a 4790k

[WereCat]

Yay bigger number in the CPU name compared to the last gen!

 

I don't want to see these now, just brought a 4790k 

 

There is barely any difference in performance.

[TheKDub]

Nice.

 

I doubt I'll be upgrading to skylake tho, considering I'm using haswell refresh atm.. (i5 4690K)

[Xorbot]

naaice. A good bit better than ivy bridge. 

Sandy Bridge customers I think should upgrade to skylake.

 

I'm still Sandy Bridging (-E).  I probably won't change this decade, even.

[Jambls]

I would like to point out that the xeon has a lower clockspeed but the same score.

[SurvivorNVL]

Well, the 6700k should replace my 3820 rather nicely.  Hopefully the OC headroom is large, and we can hit 4.6 - 5ghz easily with low voltage.  C'mon lottery..

[Prashank]

I would like to point out that the xeon has a lower clockspeed but the same score.

 

and $1700 price tag

[Notree]

naaice. A good bit better than ivy bridge. 

Sandy Bridge customers I think should upgrade to skylake.

Nah Ill stick with 2500k till next year I really wanna see what AMD brings with ZEN.. prob nothing good but we can always hope..lol

 

The 6700k looks good tho. Uses less power and it performs better. 

[manikyath]

so, i'm not into CPU benchmarks a lot, but these numbers dont seem very impressive to me...

[Opcode]

I figured this much. Most people have been spewing "15% faster IPC" when really we're looking at the ~5-10% that we've been seeing for so long now. This would mean little to no architecture improvements as them gains would of primarily came from the die shrink. If you own Haswell there's really no point in upgrading, again.

[ManIkWeet]

My i7 2600k is still rocking pretty solid at 4.5GHz... Too bad my motherboard is showing its age. My next rig will probably have some Skylake processor, maybe 2 graphics cards...

[Imakuni]

But.... if Skylake supposedly uses DDR3 or DDR4..... THEN WHICH RAM THEY USED???

[SteveGrabowski0]

I don't want to see these now, just brought a 4790k

 

Why? You got a freaking beast in your system.

[Speaker1264]

Same old same old, not much has changed since sandy bridge, and I don't expect much to change until AMD gets their act together.... if ever.

[Speaker1264]

But.... if Skylake supposedly uses DDR3 or DDR4..... THEN WHICH RAM THEY USED???

 

I believe I read on Wikipedia that it would support both.

 

Skylake's U and Y variants will support one DIMM slot per channel (of type LPDDR3 only, for the models announced as of June 2014), while H and S variants will support two DIMM slots per channel.^[11] Skylake's launch and sales lifespan occur at the same time as the ongoing SDRAM market transition related to a dropoff in the DDR3 SDRAM memory as it gradually becomes replaced by the DDR4 memory. Rather than working exclusively with DDR4, the Skylake microarchitecture is expected to remain backward compatible by interoperating with both types of memory. Accompanying the microarchitecture's support for both memory standards, a new SO-DIMM type capable of carrying either DDR3 or DDR4 memory chips, called UniDIMM, was also announced.^[14]

 

^{http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_%28microarchitecture%29}

[Guest Strangerbob]

And gaming performance will be improved by a WHOOPING 2% !!   ... which is a 100% improvement over the last gens gaming performance improvement!

[Comessy]

Wow Intel you disaapoint me. They barely have competition so they can get away with this.

[Guest Kloaked]

In anyone's opinion: would this be a good time to upgrade from a 2500k for gaming?

 

I am eventually going to go into developing a game so I'm going to be upgrading regardless, just figured I'd ask since I'm not 100% in tune with when Intel's releases are.

[Dabombinable]

and $1700 price tag

and twice the cores.