Skylake vs. Sandy Bridge: Discrete GPU Showdown

[TheF34RChannel]

By PC Perspective. Thoughts?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38KSD9o-LOs

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Skylake vs Haswell vs IVB vs SB

clock for clock

by DigitalFoundry

https://youtu.be/4sx1kLGVAF0

And the full review which also gives minimum frame rates which is where Skylake really pulls ahead compared to Sandy/Ivy.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-intel-skylake-core-i7-6700k-review

Thanks for linking these, I quite like their stuff and they seem to test well. Indeed, here is where Skylake goes full steam ahead. However I must say that Sandy Bridge in that table isn't too shabby and spits out enough FPS, except in GTA 5.

Now I played GTA 5 extensively and at first with my CPU at stock, and this is where I saw a lowest FPS of 38-40-ish occasionally/sporadically and that was with MSAA on and many cranked up settings (and pretty much maxed out when I got my current GPU, slightly before I OC'd my CPU to 4.4 GHz), and would say that my FPS experience has been better than theirs - and I am sporting a GTX 970 Strix! Of course I looked in-game whereas they ran the benchmark, which could make it a bit different.

In my experience (currently playing The Witcher 3 for example) there's enough FPS and it's butter smooth to make me to stay put. I don't need 120 FPS where 60-65 will do just fine. So I try to look at it now like I look at GPU upgrades; when my current stuff isn't enough anymore and I need to lower settings, it's time to upgrade. So maybe I'll just have to see if upcoming games cripple my experience and then I can always move up (although I secretly hope to be fine until Skylake-E arrives (if any good)).

 

[TheF34RChannel]

Hmm....

So the general gist of all these reviews posted above is that there is a difference between the i7's in gaming. I wish they would include the 5820k in to these reviews as it basically is the direct competitor in the same price range.

You and me both! They would have but lacked a sample, they wrote.

In intensive cpu areas in games skylake looks like it has some good performance over haswell, it's killing the 4790k in GTA5 for example.

So might not be best going with the x99 solution if looking for best performance.

Wouldn't such an increase with Skylake become more/actually relevant only when having a monitor above 60Hz?

 

[TheF34RChannel]

if i have £400 to blow will I buy a CPU for 5% increase in FPS, or another 980 for 50-100%?


Let me think about that one..

Definitely buy the CPU... ;p