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Skylake Clockspeeds and benchmarks!

John24 said:
Got a niche usage case here and a few questions. I run simultanious video encodes, x264 on the CPU and QuickSync on the IGPU. Would I be better off with Broadwell or Skylake? If I went x99 would a 5960X be fast enough to make up for the loss of the IGPU?
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Skylake has native X265 encoding support on the IGPU, so I'd wait for that.
 
Skylake has hardware HEVC and HDMI 2.0 for 4K @ 60Hz. That coupled with the low power models should make for the basis of a nice HTPC.
 
mahius said:
Otherwise, I'm just interested to see how these shake up the pricing of current chips. Worst case scenario, they increase the price of 4770k/4790k to make room for these ones. Or we can hope the prices go down. 4790k prices have been on the rise for a while, which is depressing. Skylake will definitely do something interesting to prices, they'll try to make them more desirable to buy, so pricing needs to be on point.
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The skylake k chips will come in at almost exactly the same, the haswell/devils canyon will drop by £20 or so making them reasonably unattractive for new builds but still an option for upgrades until stock is exhausted. This is pretty much how it has happened for last few releases.
 
I've read some more about Skylake, it does seem IPC has got a 10%+ jump over Haswell.

Got my eyes on the i7 6700T, might be ideal for my Mini-ITX, if it can match a 4770K/4790K for gaming etc, that's the chip I would go for. 4/8 core/thread with 8MB Cache and only 35W, not bad at all.
 
MrMarvelous said:
Would the 6700K be a nice upgrade from a 2700K?
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In terms of just raw performance maybe not, but overall as a package I would say definitely. Newer chipset, better performance. DDR4, latest mobo spec etc..

These aren't out until Q3 so still a ways off, that will be a great time to upgrade from Sandybridge imho.

Will seriously consider the i7 6700T with some DDR4, to brings temps / power consumption down in my mini-ITX. Paired with a Pascal or AMD GPU (Die shrunk), Would be a great performance VS power use gaming PC.
 
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Boomstick777 said:
I've read some more about Skylake, it does seem IPC has got a 10%+ jump over Haswell.

Got my eyes on the i7 6700T, might be ideal for my Mini-ITX, if it can match a 4770K/4790K for gaming etc, that's the chip I would go for. 4/8 core/thread with 8MB Cache and only 35W, not bad at all.
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As I posted many days ago - the Cinebench performance alone shows a 15% IPC increase over Haswell (4790k), even when the 4790k has a 200Mhz clock speed advantage over the 6700k.

Glad you are finally seeing the light! :D

Now we just need to see average overclocking results, and we'l know just how good Skylake will be.
 
Perfect_Chaos said:
Doesn't seem all that great by those benches, glad i didn't wait and went x99 now.
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Yeah X99 is easily the best platform if you're using big old desktop case. For Mini-ITX / lower power builds or need IGPU Skylake looks ideal. I don't really get why other people not building small form factor would choose Skylake etc over X99 and a 5820K. You get way more with X99 (50% extra CPU) for very little extra money, but each to their own.
 
Shampoo said:
Given how underwhelming Skyake's turned out to be for desktop users, would a 5820 be a reasonable upgrade path from 4790K?
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Yeah X99 currently is the only real upgrade path for desktop users as you gain 50% more CPU with 5820K 'for similar overall cost'. For Mini-ITX and small form factor Skylake looks really good.

If you're doing more than gaming 5820K is spot on, video encoding, workstation type stuff etc.

When overclocked 5820K destroys the mainstream chips, Skylake included according to those benchmarks, 5820K ahead at stock (3.3Ghz > 3.6Ghz) :p
 
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