Thanks. Is there some official (or not) list somewhere?Skylake is Model 94.
It looks like many of the production chips are at stepping 1, so this doesn't mean much.Still Stepping 1, final Broadwell-K should do better than this of course.
Intel recently introduced our 5th Generation Intel® Core™ processors resulting in a wave of products built on Intel’s industry-leading 14nm process technology. In a new disclosure at GDC, Intel showed the first 5th Generation Core LGA-socketed CPU with Intel® Iris™ Pro graphics. This 65 watt unlocked desktop processor, available mid-2015, will bring new levels of performance and power efficiency to Mini PCs and desktop All-In-Ones. Since 2006 the 3D performance of Intel Graphics has increased nearly 100 fold (Intel 3DMark06 measurements) and powerful form factors from Acer, Medion and Intel’s own NUCs are becoming available with 5th Generation Intel Core processors with Intel Iris Graphics.
This all benefits game developers who will have new ways to create immersive games building on new technologies with multi-user multi-touch, virtual and augmented reality, and RealSense. Intel is also helping define and support new programming models like DirectX 12 (DX12) and Vulkan (the evolution of the OpenGL API), as well as delivering improved, world-class developer tools. via Intel.
Most likely, yes. The question is how much lower? If it manages to get within 93-95% of Haswell (4.3-4.5 GHz, roughly), "IPS" will stay flat, while consuming less power.Lower than Haswell...
Higher than Sandy Bridge and Haswell at iso TDP.Lower than Haswell...
The next twelve months are set to be exciting times for the desktop space for Intel. While the current fifth generation mobile processors are coming to market, and the sixth generation being talked about in hushed tones, Intel demonstrated a PC that was listed as having a Broadwell desktop part (Broadwell-DT). The interesting culmination of factors surrounding this part is that it was listed as being socketed, unlocked and containing Iris Pro internal graphics.
The key elements here include the CPU being socketed (replaceable), unlocked (overclockable) and having Iris Pro, or Intel’s extended eDRAM segmentation usually under the Crystal Well name but with the much improved Generation 8 graphics architecture. While we have heard that an unlocked Iris Pro has been coming to desktop since March last year, very few details were given at the time, and the news today at least puts a TDP on such a part: 65W. Normally the high end SKUs from Intel are 77W to 85W, suggesting that this component may not in actual fact be an i7, or it could be an Iris Pro part but using one of the low power monikers such as ‘S’.
The news also puts on a more firm date, so rather than ‘2015’ we get ‘mid-2015’, which puts it within the May to September timeframe. There are two important events occurring between those dates - Computex in June and the Intel Developer Forum in August, suggesting that Intel may aim for one of these events to have a formal launch.
You should wonder why SKL-S is coming with a 95W TDP shortly after BDW-K.
I don't think it is strange. HTPC is something new to you? Just have a look to Haswell Iris Pro for desktop, all of them were 65W.
Conclusion: Intel is having problems getting 14 nm to clock high. That's why we're only seeing max 65 W TDP parts, and Intel apart from that abandoned desktop with Broadwell.
14 nm drops power consumption.
Yes, at low frequencies and TDP. We're not sure what its properties are at higher frequencies. But given that there are no high frequency SKUs available at Intel 14 nm, one can begin to wonder...
Higher than Sandy Bridge and Haswell at iso TDP.
True up to a point for sure, but I doubt that holds true at the 4Ghz range. If it did, they would be releasing a Devil's Canyon replacement, not a 65W HTPC part which uses half its TDP on graphics.
He may have meant "drop-in replacement." That's what I was hoping for, anyway. I have a pretty nice Z97 board bought partially in anticipation of being able to drop a Broadwell into it at some point.They are releasing a Devil's Canyon replacement. It'll just be Skylake instead of Broadwell. The unlocked Broadwell Iris Pro is literally the only desktop Broadwell on the roadmap, with everything else being Skylake.
I mean, the unlocked 95-watt Skylake quad-core could be something other than a Devil's Canyon replacement, but...
Citation needed. Do you know anything about Broadwell and Skylake frequencies or are you just trolling?
True up to a point for sure, but I doubt that holds true at the 4Ghz range. If it did, they would be releasing a Devil's Canyon replacement, not a 65W HTPC part which uses half its TDP on graphics.