That was exactly what I was thinking. 20% better power consumption combined with better thermals and performance should make new fanless devices far more powerful. Let's hope OEMs don't slaughter the TDP.
I was on the way to buy a i7 6700 (Mini-Itx), must i wait for the desktop release in january ? does it worth it as the desktop version will feature iris graphics and not the HD 530 graphics...
i have a GT 640 Nvivida actually that i use it only Video editing, open GL and Cuda encoding. i'm curious to know if a i7 6700 is more powerful with quicksync than the 384 cores of Cuda that i have, if yes, as the future desktop kaby lake i5/i7 trough the Iris HD graphics will certainly do better, maybe it would worth it ? as i'm trying to buil a machine with no more graphic card... any suggestion ?
IF. There's nothing stopping AMD ramping up their prices if they have a competitive product, though I doubt we'll see them as they were in the early to mid-2000s. I wouldn't be surprised to see the absolute high end at about $350-$400 with the best APUs in the $200-$250 range (AMD has released $160+ APUs before so throwing out something with 50%+ faster CPU and 30-40% better GPU would probably be worth $200+).
I saw another review showing way better throttling, power consumption, performance etc for the 7500U vs 6500U. This looks like a boring release but if the thermals are that much better this is actually an exciting release for laptops and 2 in 1's. They also upped the boost clocks a lot, it might be a good overclocker on the desktop side. Of course it's all wait and see but this might be a good release even if there weren't any IPC gains.
It doesn't seem like temps have been the limiting factor with Skylake overclocking, so better thermals may not necessarily be an indicator of potential overclocking performance. My understanding is the z-height issues were preventing soldering the lid, (not sure how they were able to remedy that for DC) so whether or not KL is a solid overclocker will have more to do with other factors than temps.
VP9 is only partially supported in terms of encoding and decoding (Intel was kinda hazy on that). I force H.264 on Chrome simply because I don't have bandwidth issues and shouldn't need VP9.
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negusp - Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - link
That was exactly what I was thinking. 20% better power consumption combined with better thermals and performance should make new fanless devices far more powerful.Let's hope OEMs don't slaughter the TDP.
Martyprod - Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - link
I was on the way to buy a i7 6700 (Mini-Itx), must i wait for the desktop release in january ? does it worth it as the desktop version will feature iris graphics and not the HD 530 graphics...i have a GT 640 Nvivida actually that i use it only Video editing, open GL and Cuda encoding. i'm curious to know if a i7 6700 is more powerful with quicksync than the 384 cores of Cuda that i have, if yes, as the future desktop kaby lake i5/i7 trough the Iris HD graphics will certainly do better, maybe it would worth it ? as i'm trying to buil a machine with no more graphic card...
any suggestion ?
vladx - Thursday, September 1, 2016 - link
Only Iris Pro would beat a GT 640 so it's not more powerful since a 6700 has only a HD 530 iGPU.karma77police - Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - link
I hope AMD new Zen performs same as 8 Core Broadwell-E and if they get pricing right they will make both Broadwell-E and this Kaby Lake crap obsolete.negusp - Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - link
Don't see it happening, unfortunately. I predict Haswell-like performance with Zen. However, the Zen APU's for mobile should have killer iGPUs.silverblue - Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - link
IF. There's nothing stopping AMD ramping up their prices if they have a competitive product, though I doubt we'll see them as they were in the early to mid-2000s. I wouldn't be surprised to see the absolute high end at about $350-$400 with the best APUs in the $200-$250 range (AMD has released $160+ APUs before so throwing out something with 50%+ faster CPU and 30-40% better GPU would probably be worth $200+).andrewaggb - Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - link
I saw another review showing way better throttling, power consumption, performance etc for the 7500U vs 6500U. This looks like a boring release but if the thermals are that much better this is actually an exciting release for laptops and 2 in 1's. They also upped the boost clocks a lot, it might be a good overclocker on the desktop side. Of course it's all wait and see but this might be a good release even if there weren't any IPC gains.fanofanand - Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - link
It doesn't seem like temps have been the limiting factor with Skylake overclocking, so better thermals may not necessarily be an indicator of potential overclocking performance. My understanding is the z-height issues were preventing soldering the lid, (not sure how they were able to remedy that for DC) so whether or not KL is a solid overclocker will have more to do with other factors than temps.fallaha56 - Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - link
has anyone actually made VP9 acceleration work on their Skylake system?!i certainly haven't on my SurfacePro4 -with the latest driver from MS...
negusp - Tuesday, August 30, 2016 - link
VP9 is only partially supported in terms of encoding and decoding (Intel was kinda hazy on that). I force H.264 on Chrome simply because I don't have bandwidth issues and shouldn't need VP9.