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First Skylake chips revealed: Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K; unlocked notebook CPU to follow
Intel Broadwell and Skylake at-a-glance:
Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K confirmed as first Skylake CPUs
High-performance processors designed for overclocking, aimed at gamers
Native DDR4 support
Core-i7 retails at £225, Core-i5 at £156
More Skylake models coming later in the year, as well as an unlocked laptop processor
After months of scuttlebutt, rumour and speculation, Intel has taken the wraps off the Core i7-6700K and the Core i5-6600, along with the new Z170 chipset.
As part of the ‘K’ series, both processors are fully unlocked for precision overclocking, a move calculated to appeal to the hardcore PC gaming crowd.
This is also why Intel chose to launch the new chips at Gamescom 2015. As a dedicated gaming expo, Gamescom is the biggest annual event for this particular demographic, with many early adopters willing to spend hundreds of pounds on the latest components.
Overclocking is a principal feature of the new chips, with full Base Clock Tuning down to 1MHz increments, as well as finer-grained controls for memory overclocking, both of which are only available with the Z170 chipset.
Skylake also offers benefits for those that don’t want to mess about with overclocking with Intel performance advantages of up to 30 per cent on a 3 year old PC, 20 per cent on a two year old PC, and 10 per cent on a one year old PC.
In addition, Skylake is the first mainstream Intel microarchitecture to support quad-channel DDR4 memory as standard, while also being backwards-compatible with DDR3L.
The new chips are aimed at PC gamers who want to coax the fastest possible performance from their machines. The Core i7-6700K has two cores, as well as two virtual cores via HyperThreading, and an 8MB cache, with a base clock speed of 4GHz and a maximum turbo speed of 4.2GHz. It’s also got a mammoth TDP of 91W.
The Core i5-6600K is a little more sedate in comparison, but still looks like something of a beast, with two cores, a 6MB cache and a base speed of 3.5GHz, rising to 3.9GHz with turbocharging. The TDP, however, stays the same at 91W.
The new chipset has received some upgrades too. The Z170 now supports up to 10 USB 3.0 ports, as well as PCIe Express 3.0 1x16, 2x8, or 1x8 and 2x4.
