Skylake Clockspeeds and benchmarks!

Craterloads · 20 Apr 2015 at 19:16

Martini1991 said:
It's the gpu that's counted in the tdp too

ah good point, never thought of that.

Nutella33 · 20 Apr 2015 at 20:14

NMBlack said:
As resisting DC for Broadwell as an upgrade on my Phenom system hasn't worked out as I hoped, I'm actually quite glad that the Skylake launch is closer than expected. Even if it's only 5-10% better than Haswell or 2500k, it'll still be a significant improvement over what I'm currently running....

Hi-five phellow phenom pherson!

samsies.

thokkiano · 21 Apr 2015 at 11:29

Are THE moherboards with lga 1150 going to be compatibles with this cpu?

r22snapper · 21 Apr 2015 at 12:30

Nope, a[nother] new socket; 1151.

thokkiano · 21 Apr 2015 at 13:25

OK...ILL wait to upgrade from i7 4770k

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 21 Apr 2015 at 13:36

I think I am going to stick with my IB Xeon E3 1230 V2 for the time-being. Might do an upgrade next year to Skylake as PS2 is still CPU limited for me,but if it gets DX12 it might delay the need for that hopefully!

r22snapper · 21 Apr 2015 at 13:42

thokkiano said:
OK...ILL wait to upgrade from i7 4770k

I doubt there will be much point changing from a decently clocked I7 Haswell for a while yet, especially with the potential of DX12

HazardO · 21 Apr 2015 at 14:17

Martini1991 said:
No 6 core mainstream with Skylake will be severely disappointing.

Martini1991 said:
It's the gpu that's counted in the tdp too

I suspect the reason we are not seeing more than four cores on the mainstream platform is because the extra silicon real estate and TDP budget is being used for the integrated GPU. Given PCIe flash is taking off, more PCIe lanes on the mainstream CPUs would be useful too.

r22snapper · 21 Apr 2015 at 14:32

Yep, you only have to look at a die pic to see how much room the graphics takes up.

Orangey · 21 Apr 2015 at 14:40

Infuriating seeing as those GPUs are utterly useless.

thokkiano · 21 Apr 2015 at 16:48

r22snapper said:
I doubt there will be much point changing from a decently clocked I7 Haswell for a while yet, especially with the potential of DX12

thanks for the advice.

Telecaster · 21 Apr 2015 at 18:21

Orangey said:
Infuriating seeing as those GPUs are utterly useless for gaming.

Fixt.

What intel should do is sell a line of chips without the IGPU, aimed at enthusiasts who don't need it, I bet we'd see some decent performance then.

eddyr · 21 Apr 2015 at 18:58

Telecaster said:
Fixt.

What intel should do is sell a line of chips without the IGPU, aimed at enthusiasts who don't need it, I bet we'd see some decent performance then.

Someone should let them know, I am sure they will pay a handsome cash reward.

Orangey · 21 Apr 2015 at 18:59

Intel GPUs are like the Internet Explorer of GPUs. Don't follow standards and terrible API support. And slow!

FoxEye · 22 Apr 2015 at 08:58

So, regarding the iGPU, didn't a few of us here buy Xeons for that reason? Are they much more expensive?

HazardO · 22 Apr 2015 at 09:59

Telecaster said:
Fixt.

What intel should do is sell a line of chips without the IGPU, aimed at enthusiasts who don't need it, I bet we'd see some decent performance then.

They could call it Skylake-EP maybe!

mmj_uk · 22 Apr 2015 at 10:19

Telecaster said:
Fixt.

What intel should do is sell a line of chips without the IGPU, aimed at enthusiasts who don't need it, I bet we'd see some decent performance then.

They do, it's called LGA2011.

LGA115x are just mobile processors being packaged differently and sold on the desktop.

Orangey said:
Intel GPUs are like the Internet Explorer of GPUs. Don't follow standards and terrible API support. And slow!

They're perfectly fine for non-gaming needs, gamers are a tiny proportion of overall computer users.

shadow_boxer · 22 Apr 2015 at 10:51

Was hoping for a bit more on the raw clockspeed front. My flight sim loves CPU horsepower so was expecting a bit more. Also no mainstream hex core would be very dissapointing with Skylake.

Dave2150 · 22 Apr 2015 at 11:46

shadow_boxer said:
Was hoping for a bit more on the raw clockspeed front. My flight sim loves CPU horsepower so was expecting a bit more. Also no mainstream hex core would be very dissapointing with Skylake.

All depends how much work Skylake does per Mhz (IPC). If it has 20% or more IPC than Haswell, then it doesn't need to clocked as high to outperform it.

eddiew · 22 Apr 2015 at 14:01

Orangey said:
Infuriating seeing as those GPUs are utterly useless.

I have three monitors, one cintiq, and only three outputs on my video card... I for one find the onboard GPU to have a purpose.

Admittedly it's not for gaming, but it does fine to drive my satellite screen(s) that never have anything fancier than a browser on them