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Intel Corp. has reportedly finalized its launch schedules for the upcoming code-named “Skylake” central processing units. According to a timetable published by a Chinese web-site, various “Skylake” chips are set to arrive to the market between August and November.
Intel plans to demonstrate its next-generation “Skylake” microprocessors at its Intel Developer Forum, which takes place from the 18th to the 20th of August in San Francisco, California. At the trade-show the company will disclose peculiarities of the micro-architecture, reveal innovative PCs powered by the new central processing units and may even talk about its future CPUs.
The first “Skylake” products to hit the market will be desktop “Skylake-S” chips for enthusiasts, the Core i7-6700K and the Core i5-6600K, according to a timetable published by BenchLife web-site. The new quad-core processors with unlocked multiplier could hit the market already in August.
The RTS [ready to ship] milestone for low-power Core M “Skylake-Y” as well as mainstream and high-performance mobile Core i-series “Skylake-U” and “Skylake-H” is scheduled on September, 2015. Highest-performing laptop chips as well as the first Xeon processors for single-socket servers featuring “Skylake” microarchitecture will arrive in October or November. Intel will also update the mobile CPU lineups in January, 2016, with improved models.
Intel did not comment on the news-story.
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I need to build a budget PC. Should I get the Athlon 870K now or should I wait for the Skylake Pentium?
If it’s a gaming PC, it’s enough the AMD 870K. The skylakes will be probably expensive at launch. Moreover, the AMD platform, with the motherboard, is a budget solution.
Among other things such as CAD (which I know it will handle just fine given the scope of things I intend to do on it), it will be a gaming PC as well.
For this build, I plan on using my old HD6850 or if I manage to sell it, I’ll get either the GTX960 or the R9 370.
Since the IPC increase of the Skylake is rumoured to be significant, I find waiting for it very appealing. On the other hand, low-end intel CPU’s usually releasee 3-4 months later than the i-series and might be pushed all the way to 2016 this time. Also an overclockable Pentium model is unlikely to be available at the beginning of the lifespan of a new architecture so this waiting gamble could not pay off at all.
In my opinion you don’t need to get expensive CPU to be able to enjoy gaming or do some other high end tasks. I have an old core 2 duo with AMD GPU 6700 that can handle new games that is released this year. So in short in my opinion CPU are not that important as old ones are almost as good as the new ones…
Wait for the R9 300. Then go AMD CPU, GPU + a FreeSync monitor. I’m tired of paying the Nvidia/Intel taxes, and you should be too.
I recommend intel’s pentium g3258 for budget, as long as devs dont artificiality block the game from running on a dual core such as DA:I. I didnt expect my OC’d Pentium at 4.2GHz to play Witcher 3 since the minimum cpu required was a quad core (Core i5-2500K 3.3GHz or AMD Phenom II X4 940) but I’m running it on High at 1080p with a Nvidia GTX 960 and I’m getting an avg of 40 fps with min never dropping below 35 fps and max at 55 fps.
I was planning on upgrading my cpu for Witcher 3 if it wont run/didnt run well but I see no point after playing with those settings.
Other people in this world just buy what they want. I have an AMD laptop and Intel/Nvidia powered desktop. At the time of purchase, my GTX660 had the best bang for the buck. While supporting AMD is a good thing, competition drives prices down; everybody switching platform will crash the market.
FreeSync monitors are way too expensive for a budget build. I’ll get a 1080p AMVA 27″ 60Hz Philips now and my next monitor is going to be 4K and possibly 120+Hz, once the prices come down to Earth.
Well, I have the AMD X2 6000+ right now (probably similar to your CPU in performance) and it’s definitely bottlenecking my HD6850…like A LOT!!! I need to get rid of that bottleneck. I also need a more ram, more HDD and so on. A new PC is therefore needed, but I want to keep the graphics card for now.
Do people think it would it be worth waiting for the i7-6700K instead of getting the i7-5820K sooner?
i would say …YES.
2 more months is not a long time
Well my point is I don’t need to spend more than $150 on a Cpu or graphic cards to enjoy gaming like majority does…
Why do tech “news sites” nowadays don’t site their sources but only mention the type of source? Why bother removing the watermark from the table? Why not link to the original site too? Pretty soon the sources won’t even get a passing mention.
Where’s “K” because of broadwell?
True. Zen will have 4-core modules meaning even cheap budget CPU’s will probably be as powerful as the core i5-4670K is right now.
Depends how long you plan on keeping your CPU for and if you will overclock or not. A 5820K @ 4.3-4.5Ghz is a way better choice long term for a powerful rig to keep for 4-5 years. It also means you can have 2 GPUs and PCIe x4 32Gb/sec SSD due to 28 lanes.
If you want lower power usage and lower cost, and will upgrade again in 2.5-3 years, then 6700K is better. Think about Q9550 @ 3.8 Ghz vs. E8600 @ 4.4Ghz. When software catches up, having 50% more cores is better than cores which are 10-15% faster in IPC.
660 was never best bang for the buck in the US. 270X or HD7870 beat it while HD7950 Boost/V2 when overclocked smashed it by 30%+. Today, it’s even more evident when 280X/7970Ghz trades blows with a 780/Titan while 660 is beaten by a lowly 270.
Thank you for this. It really makes sense.
270X? How long after the 660 was released did AMD re-badge a GPU and re-release it? Also, in the UK; the 660 was the best card I could buy when I bought it.