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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watzupken - Friday, September 4, 2015 - link
To be honest, I feel the recent AMD chips are not so bad. From my opinion it boils down to 2 things,1) They are not able to get software makers to optimize for their chips,
2) Disadvantage in terms of fab, i.e. 28nm vs 20/14nm.
Of course, they also don't have a pocket a deep as Intel to begin with. So any misstep can have a serious setback for them.
i_will_eat_you - Saturday, December 12, 2015 - link
AMD is long dead especially for the desktop market and server market. For their latest highend chips they simply slap bigger and bigger fans/heat sinks on to deal with a higher TDP from a ramped up clock. I'm not even sure if they have a particularly good standing in the "APU" market, low end market, etc. ARM and Intel are doing much better.They only have a slight gain in the GPU market with the push of HBM but even this does not give them a strong lead and they are falling onto Apple like marketing in attempt to boast their sales.
The only reason people might tolerate AMD at the moment is because a lot of tasks will run ok on a CPU that is not the best or not the best value for money.
Until they release a new architecture and a new fabrication process they are becoming completely out of the game. I agree they have no room for error in that.
Synomenon - Monday, August 24, 2015 - link
So it's possible to have the full 16 PCIe 3.0 lanes from the CPU going to the GPU and have 4 PCIe 3.0 lanes from the chipset going to the m.2 drive on a Z170 board?wyssin - Sunday, August 30, 2015 - link
Here's what I'm talking about.In their i7-6700K review article, bit-tech.net compared chips at stock settings AND at a decent overclock. By seeing both of those results, you can see whether an upgrade makes sense for your needs (assuming you are an overclocker).
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2015/08/05/intel-...
oranos - Tuesday, September 15, 2015 - link
Looks like after 5 years, there is still no reason to upgrade a 2500k.sheeple - Thursday, October 15, 2015 - link
I TOTALLY agree with yousheeple - Thursday, October 15, 2015 - link
THIS is funny, I'm using a SUPER OOOOOOLD L5408 Xeon that sips 40 watts and gives the performance of a 4th. gen i3 and runs ALL the latest 2015 games and the L5408 cost me 40 bucks on ebay, HAHAHAHAHAAAAA!!!!sheeple - Thursday, October 15, 2015 - link
My L5408 isn't even overclocked past 2.76 Ghz and runs The Witcher 3 Wild Hunt (game from 2015 on a machine with a cpu and mobo that together cost me 70 bucks used-the cpu was introduced in beginning of 2008) at 30 fps AVERAGE WITH ALL SETTINGS MAXED @ 1080p using a STOCK GTX 950 LOL!!! Whoever buys one of these "Skynet" Cpu's needs to do more research, SERIOUSLY !!!!sheeple - Thursday, October 15, 2015 - link
DON'T BE STUPID SHEEPLE!!! NEW DOES NOT ALWAYS = BETTER!manolaren - Saturday, October 31, 2015 - link
So if Anandtech tests are accurate, between the skylake cpu's, i5 is the way for a gaming pc. Gaming benchmarks are almost identical, but the price is a lot cheaper for the i5. Considering skylake doesn't bring nothing groundbreaking for the genre, then i cant see any other way for gamer's. My only question is if future games will take advantage of more than 4 cores and make i7 cpu's a must.