But Intel's IGPs are part of the CPU, so they're not made on a process that's optimized for GPUs, which makes them inherently disadvantaged, particularly when it comes to transistor count/density.Nope, it was on par with the GT-740, an $89 part that launched a year ago on a manufacturing process two generations behind Intel's.
So, even with Intel's vastly superior manufacturing and eDRAM, that's the best they could manage while costing over 3x more.
After reading the Anand Skylake review today I'm probably going to stick to my Ivy Bridge for a while longer or maybe get the Broadwell i5 5675C if I'm in the mood to upgrade (I like the power consumption). The increase on Skylake from Sandy/Ivy/HW/BDW isn't that big if it's for gaming but noticeable performance increase on file compression and Linux.
Keep in mind that Anandtech used rather slow ram with Skylake.
Anandtech used the speed supported by the memory controller. Everyone else overclocked.
Anandtech used the speed supported by the memory controller. Everyone else overclocked.
Looks like the leaks were true and this is another disappointment... I am now starting to get worried about broadwell-e...
https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/direct3d-feature-levels-discussion.56575/page-27#post-1865163
Skylake Gen9 GPU is the most advanced GPU for APUs, embarassing AMD in feature level support.
I saw the OC results by AT and lol'ed.
Max 4.4GHz out of a chip that stock turbos to 4.2GHz. Tell me why are we overclocking again? Before you say i5 I highly doubt those are binned as good as the i7s to begin with.
The Core i7-6700K was an overclocking delight, reaching 4.8GHz with no effort at all. To achieve this frequency we simply hit the quick OC button and selected the maximum value of 4.8GHz. The system reset, loaded Windows 10 and we began testing. Keep in mind the ambient room temperature was just 21 degrees and we were using the Noctua NH-D15.
Putting everything together we settled with a 200 BCLK tied into a 24 multiplier giving us 4.8GHz with 3600MHz memory and 4.4GHz cache.
So after toying with it for a while, I set the system up to do a stability run at 4.7GHz/3600MHz at 1.32v vCore, and 1.35v (spec) memory voltage. The screen shot below shows you a 23 hour run of Prime95. (But Kyle said Prime95 was not the problem! You would be correct.)
For our next set of tests, we moved on to some in-game benchmarking with Crysis (DirectX), Bioshock Infinite (DirectX) and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars (OpenGL). When testing processors with some games, we drop the resolution and reduce all of the in-game graphical options to their minimum values to isolate CPU and memory performance as much as possible. However, the in-game effects, which control the level of detail for the games' physics engines and particle systems, are left at their maximum values, since these actually place some load on the CPU rather than GPU.
Looks like the leaks were true and this is another disappointment... I am now starting to get worried about broadwell-e...
Hot Hardware's review looks a bit like AnandTech in the old days, definitely worth taking a look.
Core i7 6700K 13.5% faster than Core i7 4790K
Core i7 6700K 11.5% faster than Core i7 4790K
4.6GHz Core i7 6700K 31% faster than Core i7 4790K
Basically when you actually need CPU grunt in game Skylake-S will be faster. They used DDR4-2666 which is the absolute minimum I'd pick, still better than AnandTech's DDR4-2133.
http://hothardware.com/reviews/inte...chipset-review-skylake-for-enthusiasts?page=1
On another note, seeing memory-dependent performance like this is kind of new and may eventually be exciting. For a while performance has seemed pretty independent of memory speed. Perhaps the DDR4 performance results suggest that as DDR4 memory matures, and we understand how to clock it up better, greater levels of performance might be attained? Some memory-dependent headroom.
True. I wonder what changes Intel made to their IMC (other than DDR4 support). We will have to wait to find that out.
I am sure glad I bought a set of 3000Mhz CL15 DDR4 memory on Monday. Now I just need a MB and CPU to go with it. Come on Newegg!!!!!