From PC World: Intel introduced its 6th-generation “Skylake” CPUs on Wednesday, but for most consumers it’s just a dream.
At Gamescom in Germany, Intel unveiled two new 14nm desktop Skylake CPUs aimed at PC enthusiasts and gamers. Expectations are running high for Skylake, which is a “tock” in Intel's processor roadmap. For years Intel has worked on a “tick, tock” cadence for CPUs: Ticks are used to introduce new process changes and bring fairly conservative improvements, while the follow-on tocks are expected to bring a performance boost.
The two Skylake CPUs include the 4GHz Core i7-6700K and the Core i5-6600K. Both are quad-core, desktop chips, with the key differentiator being support for Intel’s virtual CPU Hyper-Threading technology.
While unattributed reports earlier this year had performance differences between the 6th-gen Skylake and the 5th-gen Haswell wildly high, Intel officials say to expect 10 percent over last year’s fastest Haswell CPU, 20 percent over the fastest Haswell from two years ago, and up to 30 pecent over the fastest 3rd-generation Ivy Bridge chip. Graphics performance differences between the new Intel HD 530 and previous chips would be from 20 percent to 40 percent.
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