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Skylake Clockspeeds and benchmarks!

DragonQ said:
So let me see if I have this straight. Skylake has:

- Lower clock speed compared to Haswell
- Higher TDP compared to Haswell
- Worse IGP than Broadwell
- The same overclocking potential as the previous 4 generations (4.5-4.6 GHz expected)
- Barely improved IPC
- Higher cost than all previous generations

lol?
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And seeing this review where the A10-7850K (not even 7870K) is just half fps slower at 1/3 of the price, made me chuckle.

http://hexus.net/tech/reviews/cpu/85193-intel-core-i7-6700k-14nm-skylake/?page=8

Personally, I will wait for the AMD Zen to replace the 4820K, even if is a chance to be the same power wise. (just speculating, seems not).
We need to support AMD or else going to have such products from Intel for years to come.
 
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Killer7xx said:
My gut feeling though is that Intel will unleash another huge jump in CPU power either with Kaby Lake or Cannonlake.
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Kaby Lake is expected to be Skylake with on-package cache to improve the integrated graphics, IPC improvements if any will be minimal; Cannonlake has been pushed back to the second half of 2017 and is only a die shrink, again I would expect IPC gains to be minimal.

This really does appear to be AMD's biggest opportunity in over a decade, let us hope they take advantage of it.
 
Panos said:
We need to support AMD or else going to have such products from Intel for years to come.
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Yeah I'm inclined to agree. Before my 2500k I had a succession of AMD CPUs, and I'm thinking of going back when Zen hits.

The only requirement is that it has to be an improvement over my 2500k. And it has to be reasonably priced.

If they deliver that, I'll support them. I only left because Bulldozer was an absolute disgrace.
 
If Zen does well enough Intel may decide to bring up the silicon replacement early. I have a feeling they want to do it now but can't sell it to the shareholders without competition.
 
Well that hardocp review isn't very useful. I don't game at 640x480..

Every year this happens just re-enforces my belief that silicon/benefits from Moores Law has been reached. Unless Intel/AMD/some genius comes up with a better CPU architecture - this is it. On the plus side, no need to upgrade until we need to for stuff like M.2 or games use more than 4 cores.
 
A lot of people seem to think AMD are borrowing from a recently-invented architecture named VISC for Zen, which will allow them to automagically generate work for all cores much more evenly than now. I don't think it'll work as well as they hope but if it can provide some speedup it would help until new materials are available.
 
Got hold of an i5 6500 (Was a freebie) and have to say really impressed. It's fast and runs really cool even with stock cooler 'Yuk'. Not holding back any games, really nice lil chip. I can only run at stock for now. (Maybe future BIOS update will allow OC on H170).

So impressed that I passed on my X99 setup with the intention of going MITX / i5 6500 / 970 ITX. But would have lost to much on sale of case etc so have stuck with my Fractal Node 804 for the time being. This meant I could go ASUS H170 Micro ATX, has more features and has 4 slots for RAM which meant I could re-use 32GB DDR4. this mobo is great for the money.

Yeah overall this has impressed me, you get a lot of performance for little money.
 
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Holy Necro Boomstick, this thread was last used in August!

Glad you saw the light though, Skylake is absolutely great for gaming.

X99 etc is completely pointless for those who mainly use their rig to run games, IMO.

Far better off with a Skylake instread.

Nice little video here also showing the IPC gains in games :

 
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