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While on CPUbenchmark.net I noticed that currently the 6700k has a score of around 11,000 while the much cheaper 4790k has a score of 11,216 and the 5820k which is also cheaper than the 6700k has a score of around 13,000. Do any of you know why is this? Is day to day(web browsing) or gaming performance on the skylake sub-par when compared to the previous generations of Intel chips as the scores would suggest? 
I know that the skylake has a higher core clock speed which would likely make it better for gaming, but the 4790k has the same core clock and is much cheaper? Are skylake processors even worth buying at this time?

I personally have been drooling over the 5820k with its seemingly affordable price tag (only $20 more than the 4790k at microcenter),but the enthusiast motherboards drive a price of a system with it up quite a lot. 

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First off, CPUbenchmark, AKA Passmark, is pretty bad. And then there's the fact that the 4790K has higher stock clocks, because it's essentially a factory overclocked 4770K. If you compare the 4770K and the 6700K, then the 6700K is just better across the board. Even Passmark gets that right. Now, all these CPUs are overclockable, so the higher stock clocks on the 4790K don't really mean much. The clocks the chip can hit doesn't depend on the stock clocks. And generally, the 6700K hits slightly higher clocks. Then it's faster than the 4790K.

 

In addition, the 6700K isn't supposed to cost more than the 4790K. That's just retailers scalping because of short supply.

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