Intel Skylake i7 Performance Figures Leaked and Pictured

Intel Skylake i7 Performance Figures Leaked and Pictured

| Source: pcfrm Author: Mark Campbell

Intel Skylake i7 Performance Figures Leaked and Pictured

Intel's Skylake CPUs have had performance benchmarks leaked and a me Intel Engineering sample has been pictured. The leaks say that the Intel Skylake i7-6700K will have approximately a 15% advantage over Intel's current Haswell i7-4790K.

We also have specification on the whole i5 and i7 Intel Skylake lineup, which will support both DDR4 and DDR3 memory types. Intel i3 series processors are expected to be released at a later date.

Curiously Intel has changed their naming scheme for their Skylake CPUs, naming the unlocked i5 and i7 models the i5 6600K and the i7 6700K, instead of the i5 6670K and the 6770K like expected. Another oddity is that AMD has released APUs with similar names over the past few years with Richland, with models called the A8-6600, A10-6700 and the A10-6800K, which could confuse people who are not acquainted with these CPUs.

For more information on the Intel Skylake 1151 socket/ socket Z170 in our article on the subject here.

Below are some early benchmarks from PCFRM, which while we cannot confirm that they are legitimate give us a picture of what we have came to expect from Intel, after 10-15% gains year-on-year with Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge and Haswell. Please bear in mind that the Intel 5820K Quad core is clocked at 3.3GHz, while the 4790K and 6700K are both clocked at 4.0GHz

When Skylake comes it will bring with it a CPU which supports both older and newer memory standard, DDR4 and DDR3, and should also dramatically decrease the power consumption of the CPUs, both via architectural improvements and by using Intel's newest 14nm manufacturing process.

You can join the discussion on the performance of Intel's Skylake CPUs on the OC3D Forums.

Intel's Skylake CPUs have had performance benchmarks leaked and pictured. http://t.co/C5IfbwqZEY pic.twitter.com/IlmYyprkPJ — OC3D (@OC3D) April 25, 2015

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