Skylake Clockspeeds and benchmarks!

mahius · 1 May 2015 at 23:46

I wish they'd give up on the integrated graphics, at least on the enthusiast processors like the 6700T. And maybe just do discreet GCs instead? I'd love to see Intel shake things up with nVidia and AMD on that front. A shame these chips come out Q3, I need a new PC next month! So I'll just go that extra mile for a 4790k, unless there's a good reason to go with X99. All I see is the hole it would leave in my wallet. Judging by the small gains from Skylake a 4790k should be good for a while yet.

Telecaster · 2 May 2015 at 01:28

I'm interested to see how the lower power versions turn out, specifically the 6700 and the 6700T.

Boomstick777 · 2 May 2015 at 02:22

mahius said:
Judging by the small gains from Skylake a 4790k should be good for a while yet.

Hoping the same, didn't fancy changing mobo / memory for Skylake for a small performance increase so just got a 4790K and planning on riding out rest of this year until later part 2016 with my 4790K / Z97N / DDR3. Then hopefully something worthy of an upgrade will be kicking around in about 1 year+ from now, maybe Zen or Cannonlake.

Telecaster said:
I'm interested to see how the lower power versions turn out, specifically the 6700 and the 6700T.

Yeah if I was going to do a Skylake build i7 6700T is the one I would pick. Interested to see how it compares to 4770K/4790K.

Orangey · 2 May 2015 at 05:01

Cannonlake was delayed to 2017 Boom, looking like Zen will have the year to itself.

Dave2150 · 2 May 2015 at 05:32

Orangey said:
Cannonlake was delayed to 2017 Boom, looking like Zen will have the year to itself.

Very high chance of Zen being delayed aswell - just look how long it's taken AMD to release their 390X....

BaronVonDuncs · 2 May 2015 at 06:49

So based on these numbers so far an upgrade from a 4770K is hardly going to be worth it is it really once you factor in the cost of new DDR4 RAM and a new MOBO with the 1151 socket.

I was kind of hoping to upgrade but seems like a lot of additional expense for a very marginal gain. Maybe just buy a Broadwell and drop into the Z97 1150 socket I already have and then wait for the Skylake CPU to mature a little more, or just keep the 4770K, or get a 4790K. Decisions decisions!

lettuce · 2 May 2015 at 11:44

Excuse my ignorance, but whats the difference between the i5-6600 and the i5-6600K bar the power consumption?

Jokester · 2 May 2015 at 11:47

K will be certainly be fully unlocked and I guess it may have a better iGPU to explain the higher TDP.

lettuce · 2 May 2015 at 12:05

Not at all interested in iGPU to be honest.

So what performance increase could i expect going from my i7-4770K @ 4.2ghz to the 6700K, i game and encode my game captures. Heck im even considering looking at the 6600K

Boomstick777 · 2 May 2015 at 12:10

BaronVonDuncs said:
So based on these numbers so far an upgrade from a 4770K is hardly going to be worth it is it really once you factor in the cost of new DDR4 RAM and a new MOBO with the 1151 socket.

I was kind of hoping to upgrade but seems like a lot of additional expense for a very marginal gain. Maybe just buy a Broadwell and drop into the Z97 1150 socket I already have and then wait for the Skylake CPU to mature a little more, or just keep the 4770K, or get a 4790K. Decisions decisions!

Yeah not really worth it for people on 4770K/4790K.

For new system builders and people on say Sandybridge, Skylake is a good upgrade, maybe not just in performance terms but as a package as they would get much newer chipset, DDR4, latest tech. So it would be worth it coming from an older setup, or building something new.

Orangey said:
Cannonlake was delayed to 2017 Boom, looking like Zen will have the year to itself.

More delays, it's the last thing CPU space needs. Almost slowed to a crawl now lol. If Zen doesn't deliver and Intel delay then it's just more of the same.

I've got a feeling Zen will be good, fancy a switch to AMD next time. Think my last AMD CPU was a 1055T years ago..

Jokester · 2 May 2015 at 12:14

lettuce said:
Not at all interested in iGPU to be honest.

So what performance increase could i expect going from my i7-4770K @ 4.2ghz to the 6700K, i game and encode my game captures. Heck im even considering looking at the 6600K

Probably not worth the bother upgrading, unless you overclock and Skylake overclocks well.

Telecaster · 2 May 2015 at 16:55

BaronVonDuncs said:
So based on these numbers so far an upgrade from a 4770K is hardly going to be worth it is it really once you factor in the cost of new DDR4 RAM and a new MOBO with the 1151 socket.

I was kind of hoping to upgrade but seems like a lot of additional expense for a very marginal gain. Maybe just buy a Broadwell and drop into the Z97 1150 socket I already have and then wait for the Skylake CPU to mature a little more, or just keep the 4770K, or get a 4790K. Decisions decisions!

I think Broadwell will be even more of a pointless side step than Skylake from a 4770k. This is looking like the upgrade for us SB brigade

Boomstick777 · 2 May 2015 at 17:09

Telecaster said:
I think Broadwell will be even more of a pointless side step than Skylake from a 4770k. This is looking like the upgrade for us SB brigade

For people on Z97 Broadwell would be an easier choice, as no need to change mobo or memory. With the info so far though it doesn't look like there will be a higher end Broadwell chip to replace 4770K/4790K, the ones we have seen are low clocked with only 6MB Cache.

Intel kind of stitched up Z97 owners as bought into Z97 based on being able to move to Broadwell after devil's canyon.. So far looks like there not brining anything to Z97 worthwhile of moving to.

A devil's canyon type 'Broadwell' chip for Z97 would be welcome. You never know maybe Intel will..

Karateyid · 2 May 2015 at 18:03

Would be nice to see some benches against sandybridge. Wondering whether to go i7 or just stick with i5 as all I do is gaming. But not sure if i7 would be better for future gaming.

bfar · 3 May 2015 at 13:58

Karateyid said:
Would be nice to see some benches against sandybridge. Wondering whether to go i7 or just stick with i5 as all I do is gaming. But not sure if i7 would be better for future gaming.

I hear ya man. Upgrade my 2500k? i5 or i7?

OracIe · 3 May 2015 at 14:55

One thing I found interesting was the potential for dual M.2 slots on the Skylake chipset, allowing RAID - I think if you had some fast PCI-e drives in there, in RAID, you'd see some pretty fast speeds.

Combat Fighter · 3 May 2015 at 15:56

easyrider said:
so will there be any Skylake 2011 socket chips?

Your 5930K will do you good for years yet mate.

Dave2150 · 3 May 2015 at 16:19

OracIe said:
One thing I found interesting was the potential for dual M.2 slots on the Skylake chipset, allowing RAID - I think if you had some fast PCI-e drives in there, in RAID, you'd see some pretty fast speeds.

Z170 is a very nice platform upgrade for sure. DMI 3.0, enabling the CPU to talk to the PCH (chipset) much faster, with 20 lanes of PCI-E v3.0 bandwidth from CPU to PCH, in addition to the 16 lanes directly from CPU.

It antiquates Z97 as soon as it launches, pretty much.

implosiveturnip · 4 May 2015 at 02:08

Sorry if I have missed something here, but has it been confirmed that Skylake will need a new socket for sure? As the spec so far says DDR4 *OR* DDR3L, so would it not be feasible that Skylake may yet release on Z97 as well as a new chipset supporting DDR4? Or am I on crack right now?

implosiveturnip · 4 May 2015 at 02:13

I mean it makes sense sort of, by making the mainstream transition to DDR4 that little bit more palatable to new adopters, and by providing the new chip on current platforms, it gives users an easy way to get into DDR4 later on. Kinda like how there are socket 775 boards that will do DDR2 and DDR3, softening the blow between new techs etc...

Or that Intel-based crack I'm smoking is mighty good.