![]() If you've got a fast Intel Haswell processor or an Ivy Bridge chip, hell maybe even a Sandy Bridge chip, you probably won't feel much subjective difference with Skylake. At the kinds of resolutions that a fairly pricey chip like this is likely to find itself operating, the impact of the 6700K is slim going on none. The game benchmarks are arguably even less dramatic. As for video encoding, you're looking at a 6% leap. ![]() ![]() It's all of 4% faster than the existing Core i7-4970K in Cinebench. Project Cars (frames per second – minimum in brackets): 28 (27)Īll this explains why our above benchmark results show such a modest uptick in raw CPU performance.Shadow of Mordor (frames per second – minimum in brackets): 53 (37).Metro: Last Light (frames per second – minimum in brackets): 37 (23).x264 video encoding (frames per second): 56. ![]() Intel's CPU cores are outrageously optimised. Then they climbed the branches and grabbed everything else. The other problem, when it comes to improving CPU performance, is that Intel's CPU engineers snaffled up all the low hanging fruit long ago. Put simply, Intel's CPU roadmap has gone completely out of whack. ![]() Except we've barely seen any of the first 14nm chips, known as Broadwell, on the desktop and now Skylake is go for launch. Whatever, Skylake is a 'Tock' in Intel's Tick-Tock chip development parlance and that means it's supposedly an all-new processor design on an existing production node, in this case 14nm. Graphics-wise, there's an Intel HD Graphics 530 core onboard, and thus not one of the fancy new Iris or Iris Pro solutions. Anyway, it slots into the new LGA1151 socket and thereby hooks into Intel's new 100-series chipsets, the most notable of which for us performance junkies is the Z170, which effectively replaces the old Z97. ![]()
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