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

👤by David Mitchelson Comments 📅05-08-15
Test Setup & Overclocking

CPUs
Intel Core i5 2500K (3.3GHz) Sandy Bridge
Intel Core i5 3570K (3.40GHz) Ivy Bridge
Intel Core i7 3770K (3.50GHz) Ivy Bridge
Intel Core i5 4670K (3.40GHz) Haswell
Intel Core i7 4770K (3.50GHz) Haswell
Intel Core i7 4790K (4GHz) Haswell Refresh
Intel Core i5 6600K (3.50GHz) Skylake
Intel Core i7 6700K (4GHz) Skylake
Cooling Corsair Hydro Series H100i GTX
Motherboard MSI Z170A
Memory 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 3200MHz DDR4
Graphics XFX R7970 Black Edition
Storage OCZ Vector 180
PSU Corsair HX1050 (GOLD)


Benchmarks
Cinebench R15 – CPU/OpenGL Score
x264 HD 4.0 – 1st and 2nd pass encoding
SiSoftware SANDRA 2014 – CPU & Memory benchmarks
AIDA64 – CPU benchmarks
PCMark 8 – Home Suite
3DMark FireStrike – DX11 3D Benchmark
Games – Tomb Raider, THIEF


Other Software
Temperature Analysis: Real Temp
Stress Testing Software: AIDA64 Stability Test
CPU Specification Monitoring: CPU-Z


NOTE: Some benchmarks do not have full comparative models because we have since introduced new testing applications to expand analysis and are not able to re-test older chips.

Also, the CPUs being compared use different sockets so it isn’t possible for us to use the same motherboard unfortunately. Throughout testing we’ve used a combination of Z77 and Z97 motherboards and the same DDR3 kit in previous generation platforms. Since Skylake now uses DDR4 we are forced to test using this type of memory kit over DDR3 with other CPUs.

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