Over at the Chinese area I guess an NDA has no meaning, whatsoever. Benchmark results of a Core i7-6700K have been posted, they have been matched against a Core i7-4790K. The CPU performance results are pretty close to each other, the IGP seems faster though.

The The Core i7-4790K of course is a very spicy processor with its 4 GHz processor and boost speed of 4.4 GHz (across all cores) and features 8 MB L3 cache. The Core i7-4790K was tested on a MSI Z97 Gaming motherboard and the Core i7-6700K was tested on a MSI Z170 Gaming Pro motherboard. It seems that Skylake will not offer huge performance increases over previous generations.

Also take not of two results, two extreme overclocks of the Core i7-6700K that have been validated through CPU-Z. The 6.53 GHz overclock was achieved with LN2 on an MSI Z170A Gaming 7 motherboard while the 5.2 GHz (1.35V) validation was achieved by HKEPC which we reported yesterday on an ASRock Z170 OC Formula motherboard.



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