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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AntDX316 - Thursday, November 12, 2015 - link
as my last greatest laptop was back in like 2007.. I had bad laptops ever since and when skylake had huge power saving options I decided to get an Alienware 17 R3 with 4k IGZO screen and 980mmikael.skytter - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Looking forward to read up :) Gonna be an awsome review - as always!Thanks!
Zponxie - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
In the section "Skylake's Launch Chipset: Z170":
"In the previous Z97 chipset, there are a total of 18 Flex-IO ports that can flip between PCIe lanes, USB 3.0 ports or SATA 6 Gbps ports. For Z97, this moves up to 26 and can be used in a variety of configurations"
Was that last Z97 meant to be Z170?
Also, thank you for another quality review
Ryan Smith - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
"Was that last Z97 meant to be Z170?"Indeed it was. Thank you for pointing it out.
ingwe - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Man I have been waiting for this! Pumped about DDR4.freaqiedude - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
why? it basically has no performance impact whatsoever...and the powerbenefits are negligable, and it's more expensive...
I never understand why people buy premium RAM anymore, it simply has no impact on performance except for very very specialized benchmarking applications.
richardginn - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
This CPU is a total joke.... Why Intel would make us pay over 300 bucks for a CPU and not put in GT4e graphics is a total fail.A5 - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
Good integrated graphics are a waste here.richardginn - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
A full on waste. If you are going to spend 300 bucks plus on a CPU you are going to spend at least 200 bucks on a GPU, BUTTT when you can throw in GT3e graphics in a broadwell i7-5775c CPU you must no bring us the pile of crap that is GT2 graphics for the 6700k CPU.8steve8 - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link
not true, i'd gladly pay for the best CPU, but have littler interest in buying a GPU that takes extra space and energy/heat.Not everyone who wants CPU performance is a hardcore gamer.