Intel Skylake Core i7-6700K Gaming Performance Benchmarks

[HKZeroFive]

The processor was compared against the Core i7-5820K, Core i7-4790K and the Haswell based Xeon E3-1231 v3 processors...The source was able to test the Devil’s Canyon and Skylake processors with their respective Z97 and Z170 motherboards. Both platforms were equipped with 8 GB of memory (DDR4 with Core i7-6700K and DDR3 with Core i7-4790K) while the Core i7-5820K was equipped with 16 GB of DDR4 memory on the X99 motherboard. For discrete graphics performance testing, a GeForce GTX 980 Ti graphics card was used along with a 1000W power supply. The platform used was Windows 7 so the performance gains with Windows 10 and Skylake will be far better in terms of what we get to see in the benchmarks today.

 

 

 

 

Recently, PCOnline managed to grab themselves a 6700K and compared it to several processors. (Yeah, I know I should put these benchmarks in spoilers but I'm a noob)

 

Synthetic Benchmarks

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

POWER CONSUMPTION

 

Idle

 

Gaming/Load

 

DISCRETE GPU GAMING BENCHMARKS

 

Far Cry 4

 

 

Sleeping Dogs

 

 

GTA V

 

 

Metro 2033

 

 

Project Cars

 

 

 

Final thoughts: The 6700K is a bit of a disappointment, with little performance gain in the synthetic benchmarks, as well as in games. The only exception is Project Cars, with an approximate 20% improvement, so maybe it's good in CPU reliant games? Also, I'm surprised nobody posted this earlier, so please lock if it's a repost. Again, sorry for not using spoilers, too difficult for me  .

 

Sauce:

http://wccftech.com/intel-skylake-core-i7-6700k-review-gaming-performance-5820k/

http://www.overclock.net/t/1567134/pconline-diy-6-generation-core-i-came-intel-i7-6700k-first-test

 

EDIT: Added some photos of the CPU itself.

[Salty]

kills self

[Lord_Karango17]

Yeah, most of the work has been put into the igpu which is leaps and bounds better than previous gens...

[Tech_Dreamer]

kills self

*sprinkles some salt over the body*

[FireFox]

I'm also a little disappointed in it. Since they're comparing the 6700K with the 4790K I would have thought there would be quite a large improvement in every possible benchmark. Still looking into upgrading to it though but I'm going to wait until the end of the year or early 2016.

[IcedEskimo]

Yeah, most of the work has been put into the igpu which is leaps and bounds better than previous gens...

but will it run minecraft?

[Castdeath97]

Those benchmarks seem fishy. Why is the i7 5820K getting beaten real time in fry cry 4.

[Norman_the_Owl]

They use WinRAR as a benchmark? lol

[Toddwjp]

Those benchmarks seem fishy. Why is the i7 5820K getting beaten real time in fry cry 4.

 

more cores but the game doesnt take advantage of them, could also not over clock as well due to more heat, theoretically if you disabled two cores you could over clock it up to be the same as others.

 

dx12 games should take advantage of more cores so the 5820k should smoke all of them

[Castdeath97]

more cores but the game doesnt take advantage of them, could also not over clock as well due to more heat, theoretically if you disabled two cores you could over clock it up to be the same as others.

 

dx12 games should take advantage of more cores so the 5820k should smoke all of them

That makes sense, but the margin is big and it preforms way better in other games in this benchmark. I'm guessing poor benchmarking environment. 

[Dabombinable]

So the i7 4790k is a worthwhile upgrade/replacement over my i5 4440, and Skylake isn't.

[qwertywarrior]

i guess intel is doing one good thing

killing the low end GPU segment from nvidia and amd

[marldorthegreat]

i guess intel is doing one good thing

killing the low end GPU segment from nvidia and amd

Not really as driver support it still bad. 

[PudgyAstronaut]

So the i7 4790k is a worthwhile upgrade/replacement over my i5 4440, and Skylake isn't.

 

Yeah maybe, the i7-6700k is definitely better, but not enough to justify the price of a mobo/ram/cpu vs just cpu. Does your i5-4440 really hold you back though?

[PerfectTemplar]

Still looking forward to mine, but I would say you are wasting your time if you go from a 4790K to a 6700K.

[MageTank]

The 6700k is not even the most impressive skylake chip. I want to see what the 6700T can do at that glorious 35w TDP! Where are those benches? lol.

[qwertywarrior]

Not really as driver support it still bad. 

its amazing on my ivybridge laptop everything works fine

[Mao_Zedong]

but will it run minecraft?

Yes, the iGPU would be fine for minecraft.

[bcredeur97]

not the biggest improvement... but still probably worth upgrading for features for those who have sandy or ivy CPU's. just depends I guess.

 

 

pCars is CPU reliant? you learn something new every day...

[DildorTheDecent]

They use WinRAR as a benchmark? lol

It was always a benchmark. 

 

http://hwbot.org/benchmark/winrar/

 

Current world record: http://hwbot.org/submission/2840516_subaruwrc_winrar_core_i7_5960x_29607_kbs/

[Toddwjp]

not the biggest improvement... but still probably worth upgrading for features for those who have sandy or ivy CPU's. just depends I guess.

pCars is CPU reliant? you learn something new every day...

It's reliant on both GPU and cpu heavily, it has a very detailed physics engine running under the hood

[Eroda]

looks like either Zen or 6790K 

[patrickjp93]

Not really as driver support it still bad.

No it isn't. Intel has been killing it in driver support for the last year.

[totjup5]

Looks like I'll be waiting one more generation before I upgrade from my 4.7 ghz 3770k.... Or maybe by that time I'll go with zen if its good.

[NAP51DMustang]

not the biggest improvement... but still probably worth upgrading for features for those who have sandy or ivy CPU's. just depends I guess.

 

 

pCars is CPU reliant? you learn something new every day...

the only reason to upgrade from a Sandy or Ivy i7 is for more cores, if on Sandy there is also the ability to get pcie gen 3 but gen 2 isn't even saturated yet.