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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Beaver M. - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
An i7-6700k or faster?How do you know?
Refuge - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
lol everything was wasted on this chip...ingwe - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Now for the new Surface Pro and Macbook Pro to drop. I think those will be really compelling. Choosing will be difficult.JeremyInNZ - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
I see what you did there... Not falling for the MS vs Apple war you hope to start with that post :pingwe - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Haha. If only I was that clever. I do love watching fanboys fight.I do actually think both will be really compelling though--obviously for very difference reasons.
ingwe - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
*different. Edit buttonBubbaJoe TBoneMalone - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Thank you to AnandTech for the Skylake review but....no mention of Skylake-E or its release date. Guess we have to wait next year.A5 - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
The E parts will be out when the Skylake Xeons are done. Like you said, probably next year.BubbaJoe TBoneMalone - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Thank you to A5 for your reply.milkod2001 - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
next year