Digital Foundry brings an extensive comparative performance of the two newly launched Intel Skylake CPUs, these are the Core i7-6700K (4.00 / 4.20 GHz) and the Core i5-6600K (3.50 / 3.90 GHz) to check that these two chips really worth for the price in terms of gaming?
Intel Skylake Core i7-6700K, i5-6600K Performance Comparison with Haswell, IVY and SandyBridge Chips
Testing begins with a set of games at a resolution 1080p facing both CPUs and as expected, there are not enough improvements to consider investing more money in the i7, since in the best case, under the gameCrysis 3 or Far Cry 4 the performance difference is about 10 and 15 FPS, whereas if we compare the performance with Overclocking (in order to remove the disadvantage of the frequency) in both CPUs to even more performance per core. This difference is reduced in favor of the i7 in 4 and 6 FPS.
Remember that if you look at the current market prices, the Core i7-6700K is priced at 385 euros compared to269 euros the Core i5-6600K, almost difference of 116 euros.
| 1920 × 1080 / Titan X OC (Avg FPS) | Core i7 6700K | Core i7 6700K / 4.6GHz | Core i5 6600K preset | Core i5 6600K preset / 4.5GHz |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Witcher 3 Ultra, Hairworks Off | 99.8 | 100.8 | 95.7 | 98.2 |
| Assassin’s Creed Unity, Ultra High, FXAA | 87.1 | 87.3 | 86.8 | 87.2 |
| Battlefield 4, Ultra, 4x MSAA | 130.2 | 131.4 | 127.8 | 130.6 |
| Crysis 3, Very High, SMAA | 119.5 | 121.9 | 109.4 | 117.0 |
| COD Warfare Advanced, Extra, FSMAA | 203.6 | 205.4 | 192.0 | 203.7 |
| Grand Theft Auto 5, Ultra, no MSAA | 81.7 | 88.7 | 70.2 | 80.6 |
| Far Cry 4, Ultra, SMAA | 115.4 | 121.5 | 89.9 | 115.4 |
| Shadow of Mordor, Ultra High Textures | 137.3 | 138.6 | 132.7 | 138.7 |
| Ryse: Son of Rome, High, SMAA | 116.1 | 116.5 | 112.9 | 116.1 |
Now we have something interesting, compare performance with previous generation CPUs. A performance tests incorporated the Core i7-4790K, the Core i7-3770K and the Core i7-2600K. Summarizing the details, if we go to the old Core i7-2600K, the difference in average performance is about 15 FPS, so a CPU launched in early 2013 is not a profitable substitute for Core i7-6700K. If we go to the Core i7-4790K, performance is almost same.
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