Arachnotronic
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- Mar 10, 2006
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Really if you want a good CPU you better wait a couple of months for Skylake 4C 8T with GT2. It will be faster with new motherboards, new chipsets with better features etc etc.
If Intel would release a unlocked Broadwell Core i3 GT3e at $150-170 i would consider it to be a good competitor against AMD APUs.
Only very few will buy Broadwell Core i5/7 for the iGPU at that price, and those will be consumers without any price constrains. Only those that dont care about the price and want the fastest NUC based iGPU low power setup.
And you identify here the fundamental problem with tower desktop APUs, both AMD and Intel based. If you want higher-end GPU performance, get a discrete GPU. If you don't care about GPU performance, you probably won't want to pay a premium for Iris Pro.
Broadwell-H and other GPU-heavy SoCs are best suited for mobile devices where power consumption and device size are critical factors. I would guess if you want to keep costs down in an all-in-one, this would be a good use for big iGPU as well.
But for your traditional tower, the value proposition here is unclear. 4+2 Skylake LGA is likely to be far more interesting to the majority of traditional tower desktop users than 4+3e Broadwell.
That said, I believe Intel is basically putting this chip out as a "feeler." If there is actual demand for this kind of SKU, then they will release future versions. If there isn't, then I'm sure they will not. Remember that slide that listed Skylake 4+4e LGA as "conditional"? Bet you that "condition" is how well 5775C/5675C sell.