The Intel 6th Gen Skylake Review: Core i7-6700K and i5-6600K Tested
by Ian Cutress on August 5, 2015 8:00 AM ESTGenerational Tests on the i7-6700K: 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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semyon95 - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
DDR4 is completely useless and it will stay useless for a whileVlad_Da_Great - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
DDR4 should be replaced with 3XP. The new memory from INTC/MU JV. Intel has foreseen that and perhaps next year CPUs models will have huge leap in performance.boeush - Thursday, August 6, 2015 - link
3dXP is much faster than NAND, but still nowhere near as fast as DRAM. So it will never replace DDR.boeush - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
DDR4 is useless at 2133. It won't be quite as useless once 4000+ becomes the affordable norm. It'll take a year or two, but come 2017-18, DDR3 will be a clear-cut dinosaur. Of course, by then HBM 2 and maybe even 3 might be a compelling alternative - if not an upgradeable one...jjj - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Great , now cut the GPU and sell it at 60-80$ and it's all good.Until then, this is one of the biggest ripoffs in tech.
They do this instead of making a 60mm2 chip (without a GPU) that would cost them 10-20$ depending on yields and could easily retail well bellow 100$ even with their obscene margins. They just add bloat, in fact most of the chip is bloat, just to make it look like you are getting something worth paying for.
richardginn - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Why cut 80 bucks off it??? The broadwell i7-5775c CPU has GT3e graphics on it and would destroy the crap out of this Skylake CPU for Integrated graphics performance.Skylake is a full on total flop right now!!
Bambooz - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Except noone gives two sh*ts about integrated graphics when buying an i7..8steve8 - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
I doTeknobug - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Unless it's in a mini PC type thing like the Gigabyte BRIX or Alienware Alpha. But no I don't buy i7's for its integrated GPU, just gonna say that high end CPU's shouldn't even include iGPU.nikaldro - Tuesday, August 11, 2015 - link
Still, the L4 cache can be useful, and DX12 could make use of both the GPU and iGPU to give better results.I mean, you're charging us 350 bucks, and I want the absolute cutting edge for that much, considering that by next year its 6 core counterpart will cost just a bit more, I think I'll just wait for the skylake E parts