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Skylake Clockspeeds and benchmarks!

WingZero30 said:
Well I will be going straight for Skylake-E knowing I would have a chip with full features and more cores.

I am currently on Q9650 and just bought GTX 970 reference card. I know my setup will be bottlenecking my gpu but I will be moving to Windows 10 in future. So I can still get 2 more years out of my setup and with the help of DX12 it should enable my current setup to play future DX12 games smoothly hopefully.
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I would upgrade your CPU now and then upgrade again later, I upgraded from a Q6700 to a 4690k and it is a huge improvement. Those old chips will bottleneck you in a lot of games now.
 
DragonQ said:
It'll probably take about 2 years for games to start using DirectX 12's new features efficiently anyway.
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Isn't DX12 supposed to make games less CPU bottlenecked? eg. a slower CPU will work better in DX12? I doubt many games will need much more than a 4690k for a few years, if you consider that most games are based on consoles and the CPU in consoles is crap compared to PC.
 
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In dx12 games maybe, of which there aren't any... Also, people seem to believe this dx12 will be something magical; I'd be more skeptical :)

Upgrade now and again to Skylake-E later if you still want it in 2017 :)
 
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Dave2150 said:
Same here, I just hope that everything I need to order is available on August 5th, namely the 6700k, Maximus VIII Hero, 32GB(2x16GB) DDR4 from Corsair, knowing my luck one of the three will be delayed/stranded in the desert :p
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Same, that's why I've bought pretty much everything already.

Went for 4x8GB [32GB] 2400MHz DDR4 Corsair Vengeance, arrived today.
Only thing left to buy as an Asus Z197 Mobo and a 6770k.
 
Isnt skylake meant to be a process size drop from 22nm to 14nm ? wouldnt that usually bring considerable performance increases or power efficiency ?
the things that are being said make it seem like not much difference from haswell, I always heard skylake was going to be the next 'big one'.
 
Ash0787 said:
Isnt skylake meant to be a process size drop from 22nm to 14nm ? wouldnt that usually bring considerable performance increases or power efficiency ?
the things that are being said make it seem like not much difference from haswell, I always heard skylake was going to be the next 'big one'.
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Moore's Law is dead, there won't be any big jumps until silicon is replaced.
 
But pascal gpu is meant to bring big performance and thats a die shrink to 16nm(finfet) ? different mechanics at play somehow for gpus than cpus ?
 
Orangey said:
Moore's Law is dead, there won't be any big jumps until silicon is replaced.
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I think the problem is more that Dennard scaling died sometime around 2005, and gains have been minimal ever since; Moore's law is still alive, albeit on life support.
 
Ash0787 said:
But pascal gpu is meant to bring big performance and thats a die shrink to 16nm(finfet) ? different mechanics at play somehow for gpus than cpus ?
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I would say lack of competition on the cpu side but i am thinking that the more the process shrinks the less the yield in performance and efficiency. After all nvidia and amd stayed quite a while on the 28nm process let see when pascall come out
 
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