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Intel Corp.’s “Skylake-S” central processing units for desktops are still months away from their launch, but the company’s partners in China are already testing the final chips in their labs. A web-site has published a CPU-Z screenshot, which proves specifications of Intel’s flagship “Skylake-S” model, the Core i7-6700K.
Intel is expected to start volume shipments of its dual-core Core M and Core i-series “Skylake” microprocessors for high-performance tablets, 2-in-1 hybrid PCs and notebooks in August, according to Asustek Computer. Desktop-class processors with four cores, advanced graphics engines and large caches will be shipped after mobile chips and are currently expected to hit the market in late-September or early-October.
Chinese partners of Intel are already testing engineering samples of the company’s Core i7-6700K microprocessor, which means that the chipmaker has already started to ship high-frequency “Skylake-S” central processing units to allies. Early samples of “Skylake” CPUs operated at 2GHz – 2.3GHz clock-rates, which rose questions about the ability of such microprocessors to work at high frequencies. The screenshot, allegedly published by HKEPC web-site, proves that the flagship “Skylake-S” will feature 4.0GHz default clock-rate. At the moment the picture was taken, the chip overclocked itself to 4137.68MHz.
Intel Core i7-6700K microprocessor features four cores with Hyper-Threading, 4.0GHz frequency, 4.20GHz maximum Turbo Boost clock-rate, 8MB last-level cache, a dual-channel DDR3/DDR4 memory controller with 1600MHz or 2133MHz support, 95W TDP, Intel HD Graphics 6000-series integrated graphics core as well as LGA1151 packaging.
All initial Intel Core i5 and Core i7 “Skylake-S” processors for desktops integrate four x86 cores with or without Hyper-Threading technology, a new integrated graphics processor with improved multimedia capabilities, a dual-channel DDR4/DDR3L memory controller and 6MB or 8MB of last level cache (LLC). The chips will come in LGA1151 form-factor and will be compatible with motherboards powered by the Intel 100-series chipsets, including Z170, Z150, Q170, Q150, B150 and H110.
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KitGuru Says: It looks like Intel’s “Skylake-S” is a solid chip that can offer decent performance and which is ready for mass production now. We have no idea about current yields and volumes that Intel intends to ship initially, but it looks like this year’s enthusiast-class CPU will finally debut this Fall.
Might this finally be something worthy of updating my old I5-2500k (overclocked to 4.8ghz) at long last? I am guessing probably not for gaming unless I want to use the new 1.5gb/s storage solutions etc.
Did you just conclude with ‘yeah, that looks like solid performance’ with looking at a frigging cpu-Z picture? … What?
so lets get the story right ,after the delays Skylake a tock, does Not have even an improved SIMD AVX2/3.2 (AVX-512 expands AVX to 512-bit support utilizing a new EVEX prefix encoding)
Last I heard the AVX-512 was on the Xeon’s not the Core’s
lol
2500k? Well it all depends. If you can wait another year, you’ll get the real Skylake. If not, grab this one. Then again.. there is always something better ‘next year’.
I’m still on a Core2Quad Q6600 and will finally be making the jump. My laptop has a dual-core Sandy Bridge that benchmarks nearly the same as the Core2Quad Q6600.
What I keep debating, I still have my old 2500k and I always feel like upgrading my pc, but the damn thing still seems to work just fine in all my gaming.
Yeah, because you personally need this improved SIMD…
When will Apple release Macs with Intel Skylake?
It looks more likely that someone has bumped the base clock to me than the processor has “overclocked itself.” It’s at its standard multiplier.
Yep, doesn’t just look that is the case. New boards aren’t always tuned to exact blk and other frequencies
Nope, nothing worth it yet.
If you aren’t top end dual vid cards, forget it.
I “upgraded” my q6600 to an x5460 earlier this year, but only because I was having overheating issues with the q6600. It still plays just about everything for games with a Radeon 7870.