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: Office and Web Benchmarks
For the last segment of graphs, we have the same data as the previous few generational pages but we have also included other processors from our database for non-standard comparisons.
All of our benchmark results can also be found in our benchmark engine, Bench.
Office Performance
Dolphin Benchmark: link
Many emulators are often bound by single thread CPU performance, and general reports tended to suggest that Haswell provided a significant boost to emulator performance. This benchmark runs a Wii program that raytraces a complex 3D scene inside the Dolphin Wii emulator. Performance on this benchmark is a good proxy of the speed of Dolphin CPU emulation, which is an intensive single core task using most aspects of a CPU. Results are given in minutes, where the Wii itself scores 17.53 minutes.
WinRAR 5.0.1: link
Our WinRAR test from 2013 is updated to the latest version of WinRAR at the start of 2014. We compress a set of 2867 files across 320 folders totaling 1.52 GB in size – 95% of these files are small typical website files, and the rest (90% of the size) are small 30 second 720p videos.
3D Particle Movement
3DPM is a self-penned benchmark, taking basic 3D movement algorithms used in Brownian Motion simulations and testing them for speed. High floating point performance, MHz and IPC wins in the single thread version, whereas the multithread version has to handle the threads and loves more cores.
FastStone Image Viewer 4.9
FastStone is the program I use to perform quick or bulk actions on images, such as resizing, adjusting for color and cropping. In our test we take a series of 170 images in various sizes and formats and convert them all into 640x480 .gif files, maintaining the aspect ratio. FastStone does not use multithreading for this test, and results are given in seconds.
Web Benchmarks
On the lower end processors, general usability is a big factor of experience, especially as we move into the HTML5 era of web browsing. For our web benchmarks, we take four well known tests with Chrome 35 as a consistent browser.
Sunspider 1.0.2
Mozilla Kraken 1.1
WebXPRT
Google Octane v2
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MapRef41N93W - Friday, August 7, 2015 - link
Intel users don't have to brag about single threaded performance. Intel CPUs destroy AMD in multi-threaded as well.....SIDESIDE - Sunday, August 9, 2015 - link
Actually, you are a child. As for you throwing gasoline on the fire here in the intel vs. amd debate. THERE IS NO DEBATE, intel is literally twice as efficient and powerful as amd, and why wouldn't it? they are 2twice as old a company and have a lunch budget bigger than amd's R&D budget. amd's are a budget line of processors, so you buy budget cause money is tight, good for you. I run a video company and will gladly pay and extra $150 for twice as fast rendering all year. I hope AMD the best because competition is ALWAYS a good thing. but you, prisonerX clearly have your head up your A**medi03 - Thursday, August 6, 2015 - link
They did that quite a while ago.Artas1984 - Thursday, August 6, 2015 - link
WELL SAID!!!SkOrPn - Tuesday, December 13, 2016 - link
Zen appears to be matching the $1050 i7-6900K. I would say that is far better then Nehalem.mmrezaie - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Zen needs more than 40% improvement to be competent, but I am hoping as well.mdriftmeyer - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
The word you're looking for is competitive.Peichen - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Competent, competitive. AMD is neither at the moment so both of you are correct.prisonerX - Thursday, August 6, 2015 - link
Actually AMD is very competent given how much money they have to work with. AMD would be much more competitive too now if it were not for Intel's well documented illegal practices against AMD.It's like a thief robbed your home and you're praising the fact that it's great that you can go to the pawn shop and buy what he stole from you.
mapesdhs - Thursday, August 6, 2015 - link
Wow, blaming years of terrible decisions on Intel... that's a new one. It wasn't Intel that made AMD adopt automated design tools, or ignore the much easier, faster and obvious option of releasing a tweaked 8-core Ph2. AMD has made massive losses year after year. Their debts are awful. Blaming all this on Intel is just nuts.