Intel Skylake Core i5-6600K & Core i7-6700K Review

👤by David Mitchelson Comments 📅05-08-15
Closer Look (Core i5-6600K Core i7-6700K)




Intel has revamped their packaging for the Skylake processors, showcasing a lively, eye-catching design using plenty of colour. As usual the reverse of the boxes highlight the key features and provide a sneak preview of the chips inside.


Intel’s new Skylake processors are the 6th Generation to enter the family of the Core i5 and i7 product line. Although the socket type has changed from LGA 1150 to the new LGA 1151, all the processors remain the same physical size as previous generations from Haswell, Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge. With Skylake the manufacturing process has moved to from 22nm with Haswell, to 14nm and since we now have a new socket, all Skylake processors are designed to work with Intel 100 series motherboards, using the Z170 chipset. The processors use a tri-gate transistor design similar to Ivy Bridge.

The 6600K comes with four cores, four threads, 6MB cache and a base clock of 3.5GHz – moving up to 3.9GHz via Turbo Boost Technology 2.0. Whereas the 6700K arrives with four cores, eight threads, 8MB cache and a base clock of 4GHz – Turbo boosting to 4.2GHz. By default, with Turbo Boost technology enabled, both chips will idle at 800MHz - thus encouraging good thermal and energy efficiency.


Both our 6600K and 6700K have integrated graphics via Intel HD 530 which operates at 1150MHz. Later on we’ll see how this iGP performs against predecessor solutions.

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