14 DAY TRIAL // Typical of an upcoming release, the first comparisons between the Skylake, Core i7-6700K and the Devil's Canyon based Core i7-4790K have been leaked online.
The 14nm Core i7-6700K has been compared against the larger 22nm Core i7-4790K on their specific chipsets, the Z170 for the Skylake and the Z97 for the Devil’s Canyon.
Yes, this is the famous, first-to-be-launched overclock-friendly Skylake-S desktop lineup. This CPU will see the light of day this year's August at Gamescom together with the Z170 chipset-based motherboards.
The tested Skylake was an 8 MB of L3 cache and has clock speeds maintained at 4.0 GHz base and 4.2 GHz boost clock. It had full BCLK overclocking potential, and unfortunately, it's highly probable it will use the same thermal paste as on the Ivy Bridge. It also supports Turbo Boost 2.0 and will support the latest APIs such as DirectX 12, Open GL and Open CL.
The iGPU benchmarks show a lot
The one it compared to was none other than the pride of Intel's today CPUs offer, the Core i7-4790K placed on the newest chipsets from Intel the Z97. The motherboard features the LGA 1151 socket that is powered by an 8-Pin connector. The motherboard also had four DDR4 DIMM slots offer support for 64 GB memory capacity with speeds of 3300 MHz (O.C+).
Also, the Sisoft Sandra represents Core i7-6700K in blue and the Core i7-4790K in red. The new graphs show important gains over the existing Core i7-4790K, which is the fastest CPU from Intel at the moment. It's also to be remembered that these are tests made on Skylake iGPUs (!) and not CPU dedicated benchmarks. It offers a good idea on overall performance improvements and general stats of the incoming Skylake chipset, but it's hardly made to beat dedicated graphics cards on 4K benchmarks on 3Dmark and PCMark 8.
