Skylake Review Thread

RavenXXX2 · 5 Aug 2015 at 14:16

It costs more with price gouging.

8 Pack · 5 Aug 2015 at 14:20

Orangey said:
There's a tiny boost in CPU-limited games from Sandy (few FPS) but given the CPU itself costs more than 5820K and DDR4 is about to skyrocket in price, it would be wiser to invest in X99 and find a use for those extra cores.

Seems pretty much everyone is noticing what I found. X99 is the best i7 route by far!!

Cooper · 5 Aug 2015 at 14:29

8 Pack said:
Seems pretty much everyone is noticing what I found. X99 is the best i7 route by far!!

The way things are (not) going with IPC improvements, I fail to see how a 5820K running at 4Ghz+ with 16GB of DDR4 isn't going to be a viable rig for the next 5yrs.

Those 2 extra cores really will come into their own over the next 2yrs as multi threaded support in games begins to ramp up with DX12.

artus · 5 Aug 2015 at 14:39

Was waiting to see the reviews but from what I have seen will be going the 5820 route.

psychas · 5 Aug 2015 at 14:44

barely any increase in performance :confused:

, i guess 2600k will last even longer

8 Pack · 5 Aug 2015 at 15:06

Cooper said:
The way things are (not) going with IPC improvements, I fail to see how a 5820K running at 4Ghz+ with 16GB of DDR4 isn't going to be a viable rig for the next 5yrs.

Those 2 extra cores really will come into their own over the next 2yrs as multi threaded support in games begins to ramp up with DX12.

We agree

RavenXXX2 · 5 Aug 2015 at 15:10

Techspot review

Well, This is Disappointing

Pros: Skylake offers improved efficiency and overclocking over Haswell while the new Z170 chipset tops the Z97 with more USB 3.0/PCIe 3.0 lanes, PCIe 3.0 storage support and Intel RST.

Cons: The Core i7-6700K is generally no faster than the i7-4790K, which will make it difficult to coax purchases out Haswell and Ivy Bridge owners. Availability is rumored to be limited.

Jasoncmor · 5 Aug 2015 at 15:17

Really disappointed with those benchmarks, I was holding out building a gaming rig waiting for the skylake, but I may just go with the devils canyon now.

DazQ87 · 5 Aug 2015 at 15:46

I have to say, I did expect it to be better, especially as it feels like we have skipped broadwell.
All skylake has succeeded in doing is make me feel good about purchasing an X99 platform on release.

DiscoDave · 5 Aug 2015 at 15:47

So I've had my i7 920/Xeon X5650 setup for a while now, hoping to make the jump to skylake.

Is it pretty much pointless now?

Armadillo · 5 Aug 2015 at 15:59

Don't think I can stretch the extra £50-100 for x99 (even i7 skylake was going to be a stretch).

Coming from AMD, still worth waiting for skylake i5 over haswell i5? even if just for the extra motherboard stuff?

JediFragger · 5 Aug 2015 at 16:07

I miss upgrading every couple of years

JediFragger · 5 Aug 2015 at 16:08

Armadillo said:
Don't think I can stretch the extra £50-100 for x99 (even i7 skylake was going to be a stretch).

Coming from AMD, still worth waiting for skylake i5 over haswell i5? even if just for the extra motherboard stuff?

Coming from AMD, it'll be like night and day

Nasher · 5 Aug 2015 at 16:10

I love how they claim 30% better performance vs a 3 year old PC

Benchmarks are showing gaming performance against a stock 2700k as being a few fps difference at most. Or no difference at all.

hedgey · 5 Aug 2015 at 17:31

Annoying that none of these Skylake reviews compares against a 5820k.

rtho782 · 5 Aug 2015 at 17:33

As expected, so underwhelming

setter · 5 Aug 2015 at 17:39

JediFragger said:
I miss upgrading every couple of years

This is one ill definitely skip, had 3770k, 4770k and x2 4790k's. Virtually zero performance upgrade with 6700k, doesn't seem to clock well and the price is lunacy.

Raiden85 · 5 Aug 2015 at 17:43

Pretty much identical to the 4790K in a lot of benchmarks, in the odd couple a tiny bit faster.

What a massively underwhelming CPU for a new generation. I'm sure Intel are holding back due to AMD's crappy chips. Why produce a massive generational speed improvement when AMD can't even compete.

I would love to see Intel make the i7 a 6 core chip as standard, we've had 4 core Intel chips for around 8yrs for christ sake. I doubt it would cost Intel much extra to give us 6 cores, it would give a very nice improvement over the 4 core chips and get more people upgrading.

Flake87 · 5 Aug 2015 at 17:48

"In our IPC testing, with CPUs at 3 GHz, we saw a 5.7% increase in performance over a Haswell processor at the same clockspeed and ~ 25% gains over Sandy Bridge. That 5.7% value masks the fact that between Haswell and Skylake, we have Broadwell, marking a 5.7% increase for a two generation gap."

Please could some explain to me the point of clocking all the CPUs at 3Ghz and then:

"When we ratchet the CPUs back up to their regular, stock clockspeeds, we see a gap worth discussing."

And on top of all that Annandtech used the 6700K with DDR3 memory 1866 not the fast DDR4 stuff they used on the Haswell chips.

Sixense · 5 Aug 2015 at 18:20

Flake87 said:
Please could some explain to me the point of clocking all the CPUs at 3Ghz and then:

"When we ratchet the CPUs back up to their regular, stock clockspeeds, we see a gap worth discussing."

And on top of all that Annandtech used the 6700K with DDR3 memory 1866 not the fast DDR4 stuff they used on the Haswell chips.

I believe it's so that we can compare how chips stack against each other at same clock speed, RAM included, since I think DDR3L is same performance as DDR3. 6700k was not getting any benefits from it's 4.0 GHz and DDR4, we can see how Intel is throwing anything at us