Solid information about skylake

[MisterWhite]

I've have that basic knowledge about skylake cpus but i do not know if they are worth buying, should you buy haswell or skylake, what are the benefits of skylake, is there much improvement? i need solid facts to help support me during a talk about that

[Guest]

http://ark.intel.com/compare/88195,80807

 

Those are all the differences.

[19_blackie_73]

advantages of skylake: DDR4, most times Type-C on mobos, slightly faster

 

[SeanAngelo]

2 minutes ago, MisterWhite said:

I've have that basic knowledge about skylake cpus but i do not know if they are worth buying, should you buy haswell or skylake, what are the benefits of skylake, is there much improvement? i need solid facts to help support me during a talk about that

if you have haswell right now, no point of skylake. the performance difference is not that big.

 

the benefit of it is that you have ddr4 ram, more ram size support, higher memory bandwidth

[Majestic]

6 minutes ago, SeanAngelo said:

if you have haswell right now, no point of skylake. the performance difference is not that big.

Yeah, only up to 20% in games. Nothing major.

[Dash Lambda]

3 hours ago, Majestic said:

Yeah, only up to 20% in games. Nothing major.

20% in what games?

... Seriously, where the hell are you getting those numbers?

[DrM]

There isnt a differnce between ddr3 and ddr4 in terms of speed, and the performance increase is tiny. The only real benefit of skylake would be the higher density memory sticks (up to 16gb per stick) and USB 3.1/type C headers

[Majestic]

1 minute ago, Dash Lambda said:

20% in what games?

... Seriously, where the hell are you getting those numbers?

 

http://pclab.pl/art65154.html

 

 

[Dash Lambda]

3 hours ago, Majestic said:

 

http://pclab.pl/art65154.html

There were two games in that entire lineup where there was a tangible difference. I take that video to mean it's extremely rare to see any difference at all.

 

To be clear, I do not believe Skylake is worthless. If someone's building a new system, they should definitely go for Skylake. It's just... Really, really not worth upgrading.

[Majestic]

1 minute ago, Dash Lambda said:

There were two games in that entire lineup where there was a tangible difference. I take that video to mean it's extremely rare to see any difference at all.

 

To be clear, I do not believe Skylake is worthless. If someone's building a new system, they should definitely go for Skylake. It's just... Really, really not worth upgrading.

But downplaying the potential benefits in CPU-bound games is not helping anyone either. Not advocating for him to swap either, just saying that the performance gains are downplayed.

[Dash Lambda]

3 hours ago, Majestic said:

But downplaying the potential benefits in CPU-bound games is not helping anyone either. Not advocating for him to swap either, just saying that the performance gains are downplayed.

I wouldn't say anything is downplayed, there are definitely games where a 6700K will absolutely destroy a 4790K. It's just that they're very sparse.

It's a bit like the difference between an i5 and an i7 for gaming. The extra threads can definitely help, sure, but only in a handful of games.

[Lays]

1 hour ago, DrM said:

There isnt a differnce between ddr3 and ddr4 in terms of speed, and the performance increase is tiny. The only real benefit of skylake would be the higher density memory sticks (up to 16gb per stick) and USB 3.1/type C headers

I beg to differ:

 

 

 

[diapersarefullofshit]

Skylake builds probably have more upgraderoutes in the future, Haswell rigs got a little more bang4buck (assuming you buy a relatively new cpu model)

[danjal]

from what I'm seeing for the future go with skylake, from my understanding Intel will continue forward with skylake, not so much with haswell..