Intel Core i5-7600K Tested, Negligible IPC Gains

[Blueberries]

What a disappointment, I was expecting at least a 5% increase in IPC if not 7-8%. HVEC improvements are great, but I can stream 4k@60FPS with an i3-6320 so I'm not jumping out of my seat for KL.

 

[efikkan]

What a disappointment, I was expecting at least a 5% increase in IPC if not 7-8%. HVEC improvements are great, but I can stream 4k@60FPS with an i3-6320 so I'm not jumping out of my seat for KL.

Who has lead you to believe that KabyLake will lead to IPC changes? Intel just released a new architecture called Skylake, it's not like they're going to have a brand new one each year.

 

[Blueberries]

Who has lead you to believe that KabyLake will lead to IPC changes? Intel just released a new architecture called Skylake, it's not like they're going to have a brand new one each year.

Intel has been consistently increasing IPC even with refresh architectures, I expected the trend to continue.

 

[EarthDog]

Intel has been consistently increasing IPC even with refresh architectures, I expected the trend to continue.

it didn't with haswell->devil's canyon.

 

[ratirt]

Intel has been consistently increasing IPC even with refresh architectures, I expected the trend to continue.

Yeah Intel's refreshing. Calling it new gen cpu which delivers about 1%-2% performance increase. If you are proud of Intel then great. For me this approach sucks.

 

[Prima.Vera]

Yeah Intel's refreshing. Calling it new gen cpu which delivers about 1%-2% performance increase. If you are proud of Intel then great. For me this approach sucks.

For Intel it's not! Is another billions to their accounts for basically...nothing

 

[Blueberries]

Yeah Intel's refreshing. Calling it new gen cpu which delivers about 1%-2% performance increase. If you are proud of Intel then great. For me this approach sucks.

It adds up pretty quick, and the alternative is what, no IPC increase? Sandy to Skylake is at least a 25% increase in IPC, which is incredibly significant.

We now have 51W Intel Cores with the single thread performance of earlier 2011/2012 Core CPUs overclocked @ 5.0GHz that have a TDP over 140W and a much higher voltage.

 

[ratirt]

It adds up pretty quick, and the alternative is what, no IPC increase? Sandy to Skylake is at least a 25% increase in IPC, which is incredibly significant.

We now have 51W Intel Cores with the single thread performance of earlier 2011/2012 Core CPUs overclocked @ 5.0GHz that have a TDP over 140W and a much higher voltage.

Skylake is faster but 25% is an exaggeration. For example in games when you play at 1080p resolution it may have an impact and sky is better but when you switch to 2k resolution, the difference is none or maybe 1-2% which is nothing. Especialy if you consider sandy being 7 years old today. Situtation is looking better for sky when SLI. That's a simple example as for gaming. Also you can still bump sandy's clocks drastically which makes the difference almost gone. And of course what's most important for all gamers or PC enthusiasts price. Sandy or ivy (if you would like to kick things up a notch) is way less expensive as a CPU Mobo or other DDR's. With the power cosuption I wouldn't go that far. concering the entire year of playing you would not feel the difference in your wallet paying with sandy. It is more but please it wont be that much. Paying for sky I7 6700 does change things bro at least for me.

 

[David Fallaha]

Clearly Intel isn't worried about Zen then if there is no IPC boost

yeah...right...maybe you'd realise there are limits to IPC improvements

perhaps you should consider why Intel is going 6-core mainstream soon?

 

[newconroer]

Say thanks if you're still rocking or a supporter of i7/i5 2700/2600/2500k ; the stronger Intel chip ever - still kicking ass five years since it's launch and keeping all it's successors honest.

 

[Khanivore]

Say thanks if you're still rocking or a supporter of i7/i5 2600/2500k ; the stronger Intel chip ever - still kicking ass five years since it's launch and keeping all it's successors honest.

i7-2700K@4.6GHz

 

[ratirt]

Well there's a bit difference with Sandy and Skylake. The last one is a bit better but yeah if you got sandy and you can OC switching to skylake is pointless. I'd wait for better chips. Got Ivy 3770k and I will only sell it if zen shows up on the market kicking intel Kaby ass. Would really like that since it's been so long since I used an AMD chip Would be great to switch to a new platform with twice much IPC and cheaper.

 

[nemesis.ie]

... and twice the cores too.

 

[ratirt]

... and twice the cores too.

Yeah twice the cores and 5 times more expensive. wonder if they made sandy 6-8 core how would that perform Shrink it to the size of Sky and get more cores and bench man you would be surprised

 

[nemesis.ie]

Indeed. Let's hope that Zen will not be 5x the price but reasonably priced (under $500).

 

[Khanivore]

Indeed. Let's hope that Zen will not be 5x the price but reasonably priced (under $500).

I hope so too. This could well be AMD's last chance to compete and gain market share in the mid-to-high-end range. Intel has ruled and milked us for too long.

 

[ratirt]

Indeed. Let's hope that Zen will not be 5x the price but reasonably priced (under $500).

I hope so too. This could well be AMD's last chance to compete and gain market share in the mid-to-high-end range. Intel has ruled and milked us for too long.

Well it is said it will cost under 300$ so it is way less than Intel's "so-called" new gen