Intel i7-6700K Skylake CPU Benchmarks Appear

[TechSilver13]

If you are going to dev a game would X99 be more in your sights?

[niofalpha]

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

They have no reason to improve on the CPU front. If they made a CPU that blew AMD out of the water, then their would be no AMD and Intel would become a monopoly which would mean they would have to sell part of their company.

 

This isn't getting away with it, they pretty much HAVE to do this to keep AMD from dying, and themselves from selling 1/2 their CPU division. 

[Prashank]

and twice the cores.

I win!

[Comessy]

They have no reason to improve on the CPU front. If they made a CPU that blew AMD out of the water, then their would be no AMD and Intel would become a monopoly which would mean they would have to sell part of their company.

 

This isn't getting away with it, they pretty much HAVE to do this to keep AMD from dying, and themselves from selling 1/2 their CPU division. 

 

They have already blown AMD out of the water.

 

Why doesn't AMD do anything? Their GPUs are nothing impressive and they haven't released a new CPU for years

[BiG StroOnZ]

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.

 

Well no matter how you cut it you are looking at an increase in framerate from going to a 2500k to a 6700k. Since that's about a 30% increase in IPC compared to Sandy to a 6700k. Just looking at how a 2600k compares to a 4770k:

 

 

You are looking at a 9 fps increase from IPC alone. Which means going from a 2500k to say a 6700k you are looking at a nice increase in framerate for games that are CPU multi-threaded. Just looking at a 2500k vs a 4770k in this graph you can see that games that take advantage of multiple cores sees quite a nice increase in framerate. 

 

But for most people, and with the arrival of DX12, perhaps upgrading might not be crucial because you will see performance increases when CPU overhead is removed. However, if you are going to be using your computer for more than just Gaming, which it seems you will be. I would say a 6700k would be quite a nice upgrade from a 2500k between IPC and extra threads.

[Guest Kloaked]

If you are going to dev a game would X99 be more in your sights?

 

I can't afford that platform.

[deviant88]

Skylake is a Haswell rebrand must be a fool to believe its a 14nm new arhitecture with 1% improvement.

[Guest Kloaked]

Well no matter how you cut it you are looking at an increase in framerate from going to a 2500k to a 6700k. Since that's about a 30% increase in IPC compared to Sandy to a 6700k. Just looking at how a 2600k compares to a 4770k:

 

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You are looking at a 9 fps increase from IPC alone. Which means going from a 2500k to say a 6700k you are looking at a nice increase in framerate for games that are CPU multi-threaded. Just looking at a 2500k vs a 4770k in this graph you can see that games that take advantage of multiple cores sees quite a nice increase in framerate. 

 

But for most people, and with the arrival of DX12, perhaps upgrading might not be crucial because you will see performance increases when CPU overhead is removed. However, if you are going to be using your computer for more than just Gaming, which it seems you will be. I would say a 6700k would be quite a nice upgrade from a 2500k between IPC and extra threads.

 

I have my chip OC'd to a stable 4.4Ghz though, so I don't know how much of an increase that is compared to the other chips. But I'd rather move to something where I don't have to worry about my chip suddenly dying because this chip has been overclocked ever since it's been out of the box (I'm the second owner).

 

Just wanted to see how much of an increase it'd be and if it'd be totally worth it - I'll be upgrading it anyways regardless so I can have an easier workflow.

[niofalpha]

They have already blown AMD out of the water.

 

Why doesn't AMD do anything? Their GPUs are nothing impressive and they haven't released a new CPU for years

They have to avoid destroying them too much, this is probably why they still have Duel cores, because if they made them quad that cheap AMD would have less than they already do.

 

They don't do anything because their poor. 

[BiG StroOnZ]

I have my chip OC'd to a stable 4.4Ghz though, so I don't know how much of an increase that is compared to the other chips. But I'd rather move to something where I don't have to worry about my chip suddenly dying because this chip has been overclocked ever since it's been out of the box (I'm the second owner).

 

Just wanted to see how much of an increase it'd be and if it'd be totally worth it - I'll be upgrading it anyways regardless so I can have an easier workflow.

 

Well even with clockspeeds normalized, Sandy to Skylake is a 30% increase in IPC. So as it sits now per say, a 4.4GHz 2500k is comparable to a 4.0GHz 4690k. I'm not sure what you mean about worrying about your chip suddenly dying. It's pretty impossible to kill a modern CPU, unless you are pumping over 1.5v into it on a daily basis.

 

I would say a 2500k to a 6700k would be totally worth it, and you will definitely have an easier workflow.

[Sharkyx1]

Pretty unimpressive improvement, Still no performance reason to upgrade from Sandy if youve got one

 

 

Skylake is a Haswell rebrand must be a fool to believe its a 14nm new arhitecture with 1% improvement.

The increase is no smaller than the one from 32-22 with Ivy, so i don't see the argument there

 

They have already blown AMD out of the water.

 

Why doesn't AMD do anything? Their GPUs are nothing impressive and they haven't released a new CPU for years

AMD's GPU are "nothing impressive"?

[juretrn]

Skylake is a Haswell rebrand must be a fool to believe its a 14nm new arhitecture with 1% improvement.

Skylake is a new arch, you are thinking of Broadwell.

[Victorious Secret]

They have no reason to improve on the CPU front. If they made a CPU that blew AMD out of the water, then their would be no AMD and Intel would become a monopoly which would mean they would have to sell part of their company.

 

This isn't getting away with it, they pretty much HAVE to do this to keep AMD from dying, and themselves from selling 1/2 their CPU division. 

 

I don't get why people think Intel unleashing what they really have is good for the industry. Or their own bottom line. Them releasing the chips we all know they could would bankrupt AMD and force them to cough up the X86 license to someone else. 

 

Why would Intel put a weak competitor out of misery? AMD can keep struggling and failing, that is not Intels problem to solve. Intel simply needs AMD to have a weak breath so monopoly charges stay away. 

 

Why should Intel be forced to do anything just because AMD has their heads up their ass, thats the real question. 

[cesrai]

I like how it has the K despite unlocked chips on skylake are named with C, yeah I'm talking this with a huge grain of salt or even not taking it at all.

Also I belevie skylake is the tock so the results are b.s. on my side.

[ivan134]

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.

Your tier of graphics card will determine whether its being bottlenecked. Using 980 sli is not a very accurate way of telling someone what CPU they need. Techspot.com has a nice benchmark of diff CPUs paired with diff gpus across a few games. I'm on my phone right now and can't find it. Will show you later if you can't manage to find it.

[BiG StroOnZ]

I like how it has the K despite unlocked chips on skylake are named with C, yeah I'm talking this with a huge grain of salt or even not taking it at all.

 

Broadwell has a C, Skylake has a K. This is Skylake not Broadwell.

[cesrai]

Broadwell has a C, Skylake has a K. This is Skylake not Broadwell.

Derp.

[Opcode]

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.

The question is does your 2500k do everything you expect it to? Does it hold your GPU at full utilization in the games that you play? From Sandy Bridge to Skylake even though with such small incremental improvements do add up over that long of a stretch. Skylake will have at least 20% higher IPC than Sandy Bridge.

[LukaP]

im a retard

[The Benjamins]

that 5% improvement wow so high.

[mosin40]

Woohooo, new cpu for my first pc, YAY! (probably the i7 6700k)

 

Edit: I forgot when will Zen launch, was it 2016 Q1 or Q2?

[Opcode]

Woohooo, new cpu for my first pc, YAY! (probably the i7 6700k)

 

Edit: I forgot when will Zen launch, was it 2016 Q1 or Q2?

Rumor has been 2H 2016 although we are unsure exactly when because AMD pushed K12 to 2017 to ramp Zen development.

[SteveGrabowski0]

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.

 

If I would have bought a 2500k back in 2011 I'd be holding onto it until the last second. That has to be the greatest consumer CPU ever created.

[SurvivorNVL]

Ugh.. why can't Computex be here tomorrow, man.  I wanna see the feature-sets of new motherboards for the Z170 chipset.  Hopefully there'll also be SATA-E SSD's shown off at Computex as well.

[Jumper118]

well, that looks very boring................ another small ipc boost  :rolleyes: