Leaked Intel i7-6700K Benchmarks?

Those are probably fake. The benchmarks showing up on official submissions like Sandra in the past few days have low clocked engineering samples. That link has no pictures of the hardware or how its configured. Click bait.
 
CPU's?

It's like reviewing the latest in hot air balloon technology or telegraph.
 
Holly Underwhelming! last Big ass step up was Sandy everything since that is Meh...
 
It's funny every time I read about how underwhelming the performance advancements are for Intel CPUs. This shouldn't surprise anyone, because the biggest and most important market is now mobile. Look at the power efficiency and integrated GPU improvements, they are massive generation to generation. Intel is throwing their R&D dollars at mobile to keep x86 from being surpassed by ARM.
 
Rizen said:
... at mobile to keep x86 from being surpassed by ARM.
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On mobile, x86 has already been surpassed by ARM for quite some time, in both market share and performance/watt.
 
If these are legit then SB+Z77 will probably stay in my main machine for another couple of years. And I'm okay with that. More $$$ for other stuff.

If AMD's "Zen" uarch is a home run, well, that's a intergalactic sized if, now isn't it? :rolleyes:
 
Hell I'm still using my I5-750 quad @ 3.8 - 4.0ghz and it hasn't hampered me for any of the tasks I've needed it for (mainly gaming).
 
hafnium911 said:
Totally have to agree with you! Guess I will be keeping my 2500k I got from launch until it dies.
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Uh no. I'm upgrading to Skylake because I have waited long enough to upgrade my 2500K. USB 3.1 PCIe NVMe SSD's Windows 10? Oh hell yeah. Zen might be nice too next year. R9 390X anyone? LOL the times they are a changin. :D
 
I was a huge AMD enthusiast fan up until - Sandybridge. I jumped ship and spent a wad of cash on the 2600K build and IMO - I'm glad I didn't cheap out and go for the I5. Best Hardware investment I've ever made. It really has stood the test of time I wonder how much longer I can run on this rig??
 
Funny I haven't had much of a want for more CPU horsepower since the original i-series CPU's.
 
Quad cores needs to be the midrange or lower by now. Quad core is boring at this point.

Hexacore minimum for me to consider upgrading.
 
14% increase from Haswell at 4.2 GHz (with 4 cores active) to Skylake at 4.1 GHz? (with 4 cores active) isn't half bad. Of course, who knows if this data is real.
 
lord_emperor said:
Like 73 vs 70 FPS miles? I bet it's a $300 premium for that difference.
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Video games are limited by GPU as well, especially GTA V on a GTX780. AIf you look at Battlefield 4 which is less limited by GPU performance, the difference is significant especially if you have high refresh rate monitors to utilize those extra fps.

In terms of raw performance, AMD hasn't been anywhere close to Intel for years, and they simply do not have the budget to be competitive in this segment. That is not to say there is no place for AMD's CPU of course. For example, if you only do gaming at 60fps, then AMD CPU are fine.
 
Trimlock said:
Funny I haven't had much of a want for more CPU horsepower since the original i-series CPU's.
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Me, neither. I had an Athlon II Quad. Felt fine with it. Needed to find a way to speed up rendering times, so I upgraded my box with the near highest CPU it could support, a Phenom II Hex.

Pretty much exactly 50% more than what I had before and I honestly felt like I could have done without. Any quadcore CPU over 2.5Ghz is going to be pretty damn sufficient for 96% of what folks like us would even need to do.

IMHO, Money is better spent on more RAM, upgrading the GPU and getting an SSD, and in that order.
 
Hmm, +- 5% looks about right. Intel simply will not make a faster CPU because it doesn't need to, plus they are still mad about getting into more mobile devices.

I wish they would make one core for desktops, and another for low power, low heat devices... Oh well, we can blame AMD for the sad state of current affairs.
 
Hornet said:
Video games are limited by GPU as well, especially GTA V on a GTX780. AIf you look at Battlefield 4 which is less limited by GPU performance, the difference is significant especially if you have high refresh rate monitors to utilize those extra fps.

In terms of raw performance, AMD hasn't been anywhere close to Intel for years, and they simply do not have the budget to be competitive in this segment. That is not to say there is no place for AMD's CPU of course. For example, if you only do gaming at 60fps, then AMD CPU are fine.
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My 2 GTX 780's are kicking GTA V's ass. No idea what you are talking about.
 
He'll I am still rocking an I7-960 and it still kicks ass for gaming. The cpu has become partly irrelevant when gaming at this point. My I7 has seen 3 video card upgrade cycles (260 - 460 slo - 680 sli) and it will probably get at least one if not 2 more out of it.
 
Well shoot.. I was waiting on skylake to build a new gaming rig. However based on the benchmarks I might as well just pickup a 5930k now. Sure it might not be as power efficient but looks like it will still be higher performance until skylake E comes out which is another year or so.

Now if only the gpu side was figure itself out. Debating picking up a titan-x now or waiting for a similar performing card but with a custom/better cooler.
 
If it hadn't shorted, I'd probably stick with my 3770K indefinitely. The CPU just doesn't mean all that much anymore. As long as you aren't a full generation behind (like a 920), you're good to go as long as they keep running.
 
Although GTA V quite often maxes out my 2500K @ 4.3GHz.
But we need a big performance jump, not these piddly 5%s.
 
Rockin my i7 950, waiting for the rocket ship, which I'm not seeing yet. Looks like I may be in for a long wait lol.

Honestly, at this point, only motherboard features might entice me to upgrade but I haven't had the time to play any games and just use my surface most of the time.
 
Seems I'll be waiting for a breakdown for a reason to upgrade. 2600k4life. Maybe whatever one-ups the 2011-v3 CPUs. A reasonably priced 8 core perhaps.
 
Well, comparing performance difference against the 4790k is easy, given they have the same number of cores and clocks.

3D mark: 13.1%
Cinebench: 13.2%
PC Mark: 4%

GTA V: 2.7%
BF4: 5.7%
Crysis 3: 0%

So architecturally, somewhere between 10-15% IPC gains when not bottlenecked by some other component, or about what you'd expect.
 
So, IF those results are legit (which I doubt since they are not official), then the 6700K gives the following gains over the 4790K:

3DMark CPU
14%

Cinebench R15
14%

GTA V (ultra settings, HD res, GTX 780)
3%

PC Mark 8 v2
4%

Wasn't expecting much on the gaming front as the older Kepler is definitely holding things back, but the 14% gains in the CPU-dependent tests are nice.



For comparison's sake going from 1st gen Core (Bloomfield i7-975) to 2nd Gen Core (Sandy Bridge i7-2600K):

3Dsmax CPU
12%

x264 1st pass
15%

x264 2nd pass
10%

SysMark 07 (overall)
9%

SysMark 07 (productivity)
17%

SysMark 07 (e-learning)
8%

SysMark 07 (video creating)
-10%

SysMark 07 (3D)
25%

Excel 07 Monte Carlo Sim
8%

Gaming (1680x1050 with medium-ish to high-ish settings)
~8-10%

That's with the 2600K having only a 2.1% clock speed advantage and the IPC increase over the 975.

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Hopefully these gains are to be expected, as I've been waiting for this 6th gen Core to arrive before deciding if undergoing a system overhaul will be worth it. Seems like Skylake will bring a pretty decent jump (again...if legit). *shrug*
 
this is the least interested i've been in a while. when they introduce new ram requirements, people end up paying absurd prices.
 
Everyone needs to accept that performance gains like the 2500k are the exception, not the rule.

You can sit on it as long as it makes sense, but eventually incremental 5% gains, plus additional features, and better performance with high speed memory all adds up, and it's time to upgrade.
 
techrat said:
On mobile, x86 has already been surpassed by ARM for quite some time, in both market share and performance/watt.
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Right, which is why Intel is throwing so much money and R&D at the problem.
 
I really want to see that new chip go up against the 2600K @4.4 so I could gauge what I'd gain in practice.
 
Remember back in the day when a CPU leak was released it was epic... I haven't cared about a CPU release since AMD was last competitive. Look at the GTV 5 slide... the cpu really means nothing anymore. I upgrade my CPU when the Memory upgrades to the next level. like DDR4. Graphics Card releases are much more exciiting with 4K rez becoming affordable.
 
I just upgraded last year - to a new E8600 ($60 off Amazon). Haven't been held back in any way. I'll need to upgrade for 4K video editing though.
 
This probably is pure BS, so I'm waiting for real reviews to decide if my next upgrade is mITX Skylake or ATX 5820K. For now, my 2500K keeps kicking serious arse :D
 
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