Intel Core i7-6700K Skylake flagship CPU benchmarks surface

by Mark Tyson on 13 July 2015, 11:10

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A Chinese website called TechBang has published what is claimed to be the first full review of the Intel Core i7-6700K Skylake flagship CPU this weekend. The review, which includes a suite of benchmark tests with results compared against a 'Devil's Canyon' Intel Core i7-4790K Haswell CPU, appears to have been taken down from the web now. Luckily several sites already squirreled away the meat from the review sandwich – the benchmark results table – as reproduced below.

TechBang claims it tested the Core i7-6700K installed upon an ECS Claymore motherboard with Z170 chipset. Also installed was 16GB of 2133MHz DDR4 RAM, a 128GB SSD, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 graphics card. The Intel i7-4790K processor was installed upon an MSI Z97A Gaming 6 motherboard. The reviewers used the same SSD and graphics card hardware in the Haswell system but with half the system RAM installed, 8GB of 1600MHz DDR3, according to Singapore's VR-Zone.

Both CPUs have four cores, eight threads and a base clock of 4.0GHz, but in Turbo mode the Haswell can reach 200MHz higher than the Skylake part. As you can see from the table at the top of this article the Skylake processor offers, at best, a 29 per cent uplift in performance. Multithreaded multimedia tests seemed to respond particularly well to Skylake enhancements.

Overall the average performance advantage of the Skylake chip comes out at a little under seven per cent. We must be cautious with these early figures as they could be fakes and/or improve further with driver enhancements for the chipset, motherboard etc.

Intel's first batch of next generation Skylake processors are expected to be officially unwrapped at Gamescom early next month. The flagship 14nm Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K CPUs are thought to be the first Skylake processors that we will officially see launched at this eminently suitable gaming trade show, brimming with PC gaming enthusiasts. Intel processors carrying the 'K' suffix provide unlocked multipliers so overclockers and system performance tweakers can squeeze the best out of the chips.

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Posted by yeeeeman - Mon 13 Jul 2015 11:51
This is BS, I can assure you.
Posted by Irien - Mon 13 Jul 2015 11:51
Unless I'm misreading things, the big gains seem to be limited to the integrated graphics. This would fit with this series of CPUs including Intel's Iris Pro stuff, I think?

The rest of the benchmarks look quite disappointing, with really only the memory bandwidth ones showing any real improvement over Haswell. That's presumably the benefit of 2133Mhz DDR4 over 1600Mhz DDR3.

Sadly this is all Intel really need to do without any real competition from AMD in the i5+ space. It is a far cry from the Athlon64/Core2Duo era.
Posted by Biscuit - Mon 13 Jul 2015 12:15
yeeeeman
This is BS, I can assure you.

Go on then, assure me.
Posted by shaithis - Mon 13 Jul 2015 12:59
Performance as expected then……
Posted by devBunny - Mon 13 Jul 2015 13:17
Irien
Sadly this is all Intel really need to do without any real competition from AMD in the i5+ space. It is a far cry from the Athlon64/Core2Duo era.
Do you really think that physics has nothing to do with it? How about the very relevant aim of power reduction, which means sacrificing performance?

Sadly, computer progress is getting very quantum and we don't have any octarine, although graphene will be just as good one day, judging by all the “oohs” and “aahs”.

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