5 Things to Know About Intel's Skylake

[arslan ejaz]

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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2490551,00.asp

Intel's sixth-generation Core microarchitecture, also known by its development code name "Skylake," made its official debut at Gamescom in August, with the release of its high-end Core i7-6700K and Core i7-6600K desktop chips. Now Intel has unveiled more details about how chips using Skylake fit into its lineup as a whole, and we know more about what we can expect from this series of chips, which are intended to work in everything from go-anywhere tablets to rooted-in-place desktops.

 

[BoraMurdar]

And now Intel is comparing his new products with 5 year old CPUs, good work Intel. Except power consumption there's nothing special about Skylake,

• High-end Haswells can be easily compared to high-end Skylakes with minimal differences over the apps, productivity and games,
• Support for DDR4 is again nothing special as multicore amplification of processing and in/out addresses are not something that can be spotted by a naked eye, only by synthetic benchmarks. And still DDR4 is expensive.
• They lied about 30-50% iGPU boosts in games and encoding frames.

So, IMHO, only if AMD's Core Next architecture come close to make a healthy competition we can expect Intel to make something better than they have been already made.

 

[jamescv7]

The thing makes it as a fact which design to work for Windows 10 where some users are complaining on possible issues of hardware all the time. So it should be fine as a predecessor of Windows 7.