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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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.