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.
Keep dreaming. And how much will that cost? 6700K already costs $350 without eDRAM and without Iris. Now add Iris + HBM. Who buys a $500 CPU to game on IGP?
^_^ Anything to justify how Skylake-K is not a dud upgrade for SB/IVB/HW K owners.
No need to even use $89 pricing for GT-740 as R7 260X ~ GTX750Ti costs
$89. NV is soon launching GTX950 and this is still Maxwell. Once 2016 Pascal comes out, low end will get another 60-80% boost in performance. In 2018 with Volta, another 60-80%.
If someone is a budget gamer, they can also look in the used GPU market.
Skylake is 10% faster per clock in CPU limited games. GPU-limited prescripted crap running DDR4-2133 doesn't count.
www.hardware.fr/articles/940-1/intel-core-i7-6700k-i5-6600k-z170-skylake-test.html
Reading other reviews you posted, almost everyone is getting ~ 10% increase in IPC on average. Ya, that makes it
the worst Tock in Intel's history since Conroe. Nehalem/Lynnfield, SB, HW all brought higher increases in IPC.
You are also ignoring the relative context of baseline performance. i7 920/860 not only provided a 15-20% increase in IPC but they overclocked to 3.9-4.4Ghz in an era where Core 2 Quads hardly could. SB hit 4.4Ghz on the included $5 box cooler. Today, 4.7-4.8Ghz on Skylake i7-6700K requires a super high-end air cooler and even with it the temperatures are in the 80-90C range. You keep ignoring this.
Also, what CPU limited situations are you talking about? Can you link them or are you going to regurgitate your 800x600/1024x768 gaming graphs? Why don't you show us 1080P/1440P/4K MSAA/Ultra gaming benchmarks that have Skylake beating Haswell by 10%?
99% of PC gamers on this sub-section aren't going to buy a $350 i7-6700K to play games at the resolutions you keep posting to prove a point. In other words, start linking real world resolutions like I did if you want to make a valid counter-argument.
So far you provided no solid arguments why someone with i7 2600K series CPU or newer should upgrade unless they already have 980 SLI (or faster), 4K monitor (or similar), PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD (or similar), high-end audiophile speakers/headphones, etc. You keep hyping up Skylake but it's literally the
least important component to upgrade for anyone on SB OC or later. For productivity, i7 5820K OC wins so you aren't going to have an argument there either.
In other words besides 35W T series or someone on 1st gen i7 or 2nd gen i5, Skylake is a dud for PC enthusiasts/gamers looking to upgrade.
And for those PC gamers who did their research during Z97 generation, they could have already bought a motherboard with an Ultra M.2 32GB/sec slot
2 years ago.
Asrock Z97 Extreme 6 already came with a 32GB/sec M.2 slot.
You also keep advocating that Skylake should be tested with much faster DDR4 but:
1) At the current time DDR4 beyond 2800/3000 speeds gets expensive.
DDR4-2800 16GB =
$130
DDR4-3000 16GB =
$130
vs.
DDR4-3200 16GB =
$190
DDR4-3300 16GB =
$250
DDR4-3400 16GB =
$250
2) The premiums of higher DDR4 memory beyond DDR4-3000 are better invested towards the X99 + 5820K combo or towards a higher-end CPU cooler or towards a larger SSD or towards a faster videocard. Even if you make the argument that one can overclock DDR4-2800/3000 to 3200-3300 speeds, the benefits are just single digit percentage points:
http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/core_i7_6700k_processor_review_desktop_skylake,14.html
Other members already posted this link but you seem to have ignored it.
Since a lot of people are gamers on this forum, you failed to provide sufficient evidence how moving from SB/IVB for gaming is worth it before buying a better monitor, faster GPU(s), larger SSD/M.2, etc. The 25% increase in IPC over 2600K does NOT translate in real world gaming at 1080P/1440P or 4K.
In other words, you keep using transcoding/endoding/rendering benchmarks to prove your IPC point but as I already said anyone using those programs in need of an upgrade is better off with moving from 2600K to 5820K OC anyway or waiting until Broadwell-E/Skylake-E in 2016.