Hardware Intel Skylake: Intel Z170 Chipset and Core i7-6700K Review

I went from an i5-750 @3800 to an i7 6700K @4600 and in many CPU benchmarks it can crunch numbers twice as fast. Games are definitely smoother all round, as well as having less CPU limited dips in framerate.

 

i7 6700K @4.6GHz - Asus Z170 Deluxe - Noctua NH-D15 - Asus GTX780 DirectCU II OC 3GB @1215 & 7000 - 16GB Gskill RipjawsV DDR4 @3200 - Corsair HX850i - Nanoxia Deep Silence One - Samsung 950 Pro NVMe - Samsung Spinpoint F3 1TB - WD RE4 2TB - WD Caviar Blue 640 - Dell U2913WM Ultrawide - Logitech G19 - Corsair M65 - Sony STR-DN1050 Receiver - Q Acoustics 2000i 5.1 speakers.

 

OK, maybe I am being a bit thick here but are there any plans to test/benchmark the CPU's iGPU? It would be great to compare it with something like the 750 Ti.

 

Not the sort of site where anyone would care to read it in truth. The 6700k is slower than the 5775c by a significant margin when using the IGPU for gaming.

5775c has Iris Pro 6200 and 128mb level 4 catch buffer on it.

6700k has a updated hd graphics engine but its no where near the 5775c chip.

5775c is double the performance effectively on the IGPU vs any skylake chip.