Review: Intel Core i5-6600K (14nm Skylake)

Benchmarks: Conclusion

...as we have mentioned before, anyone coming to PCs new should consider Skylake before anything else.

Intel brings Skylake to the mainstream with the Core i5-6600K processor. Priced at around £200 and now offering more performance per thread than any previous architecture, Skylake is the go-to choice for a modern PC build.

Unlocked from the outset, the quad-core chip does well enough in CPU-centric tests. Whether the increase is large enough from recent Intel generations is a good cause for debate, but as we have mentioned before, anyone coming to PCs new should consider Skylake before anything else.

The Core i5-6600K is a solid processor that adds the goodness of a new architecture to an already-decent proposition. Just be prepared to invest in a new motherboard and memory, too.

The Good		The Bad
IPC improvements over Haswell Reasonable price New platform makes sense		Needs a new platform

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hmmm skylake i5 or i7 hmmm, good thing i got a few months to decide in :)

I have a Haswell with i7-4790K. DDR3-2133 4 X 4GB.
The same Aida mem bench test they ran, and the DDR3 beats that DDR4 .
my read 31924
write 33501
copy 31738
latency 45.4ns

Thanks I'll stick to the faster one LOL

You can check my bench here

Rather lacklustre at best is Skylake I feel….

I'll say it before and I'll say it again - I'm glad these are meh.

I can't say as to the reasoning why we only get a 10% improvement, the optimist in me thinks that's all they can squeeze out, in such an incredibly complex task it must be hard to keep getting better for less power and the same speed. The cynic in me has this nagging feeling that they're not doing as well as they could because why not hold some back for releases down the line.

But we've always only had small increases in chip performance, until you get that next-generation change that offers up something revolutionary, and I think we're at that point now where we're just at the pinnacle of what could be done. And I'm OK with that. I have an i5 2500 for a PC who's only intensive role is gaming. So until games become so revolutionary that a 4 core sandy bridge isn't good enough, I'm not gonna upgrade. And every time I get the urge to, I'll take that £300-400 cost and look up what GPU I could get for it instead..because that's all upgrades ever are for me..better FPS

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I have a Haswell with i7-4790K. DDR3-2133 4 X 4GB.
The same Aida mem bench test they ran, and the DDR3 beats that DDR4 .
my read 31924
write 33501
copy 31738
latency 45.4ns

Thanks I'll stick to the faster one LOL

You can check my bench here

Hahahaha my numbers are like half yours (sans latency) across the board. Wonder if it has any real world implications

https://gyazo.com/d50dbc078a93037a2045c88451327f03