The Intel 6th Gen Skylake Review: Core i7-6700K and i5-6600K Tested
by Ian Cutress on August 5, 2015 8:00 AM ESTWhat You Can Buy: Windows Professional Performance
Agisoft Photoscan – 2D to 3D Image Manipulation: link
Agisoft Photoscan creates 3D models from 2D images, a process which is very computationally expensive. The algorithm is split into four distinct phases, and different phases of the model reconstruction require either fast memory, fast IPC, more cores, or even OpenCL compute devices to hand. Agisoft supplied us with a special version of the software to script the process, where we take 50 images of a stately home and convert it into a medium quality model. This benchmark typically takes around 15-20 minutes on a high end PC on the CPU alone, with GPUs reducing the time.
Cinebench R15
Cinebench is a benchmark based around Cinema 4D, and is fairly well known among enthusiasts for stressing the CPU for a provided workload. Results are given as a score, where higher is better.
HandBrake v0.9.9: link
For HandBrake, we take two videos (a 2h20 640x266 DVD rip and a 10min double UHD 3840x4320 animation short) and convert them to x264 format in an MP4 container. Results are given in terms of the frames per second processed, and HandBrake uses as many threads as possible.
Hybrid x265
Hybrid is a new benchmark, where we take a 4K 1500 frame video and convert it into an x265 format without audio. Results are given in frames per second.
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Zoeff - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Thank you for the timely review! :)Whatchagot - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
As a Sandy Bridge owner I've been really looking forward to this. Sadly it's a trailer I've been waiting for and now the show has arrived. Great write up as always.TelstarTOS - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Wonder if i'll make the upgrade or wait for skylake-E next spring (more likely)Despoiler - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
I'm waiting to see what AMD's Zen brings to the table next year.darkfalz - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Who knows, maybe they'll catch Nehalem?Refuge - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Hey if they catch up to Sandybridge they will won't be too far off the mark to retake the crown apparently! ROFL....Michael Bay - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
In their dreams. The moment that happens, Intel will trot out something actually new and destroy everything again.lilmoe - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
But you wouldn't want that to happen since you love how much Intel are milking their customers right?I mean, who the hell cares for the benefits that come from competition...... Silly me.
Michael Bay - Thursday, August 6, 2015 - link
You`re not talking to me but your own projections.cykodrone - Friday, August 21, 2015 - link
Agreed, the second AMD goes under, Intel will announce $1000 'consumer' CPUs, enjoy Intel phanboiz. :P