Gstanford is right about games needing faster bandwidth access. HardOCP's review shows games benefiting from overclocked DDR4 speeds, especially at 2666MHz, but some games still lack compared to ordinary Haswell i7-4790K with DDR3 at only 1866MHz. Right now, I'm using DDR3 at 2133MHz with my Haswell.
See how well Broadwell does at only 3.3GHz:
![[Image: pcars-fps.gif]](http://techreport.com/r.x/skylake/pcars-fps.gif)
http://techreport.com/review/28751/intel...reviewed/6
This game is one of the rare games that truly show Skylake's shining colors over Haswell (13% improvement, or maybe about 11% IPC improvement, if the actual running clock for the Haswell was around 4.2GHz for that multi-threaded game, with the Skylake running at around 4.1GHz)??????
Yet, it still embarrassingly loses out to the Broadwell running at a lowly 3.3GHz. (Broadwell and Haswell with DDR3 at 1600Mhz CAS9 vs Skylake DDR4-2133 @ CAS15)
I honestly was expecting Skylake to be a better "tock" than this. Imagine Broadwell overclocked at 4.3GHz, vs Skylake at 4.7GHz (only 9% clock increase)? The difference would be even more dramatic, as the gap is lessened from 3.3GHz vs 4.0GHz (21% clock increase).
Z97 mobo owners could just swap out CPU's to Broadwell in the future and forget about Skylake... if all they care about is gaming. Yep, I'm mighty tempted to just wait Skylake out. Pissed at Intel for not pushing as hard as they could (going 2 steps forward, but then 1 step backward with L4 EDRAM cache).
See how well Broadwell does at only 3.3GHz:
http://techreport.com/review/28751/intel...reviewed/6
This game is one of the rare games that truly show Skylake's shining colors over Haswell (13% improvement, or maybe about 11% IPC improvement, if the actual running clock for the Haswell was around 4.2GHz for that multi-threaded game, with the Skylake running at around 4.1GHz)??????
Yet, it still embarrassingly loses out to the Broadwell running at a lowly 3.3GHz. (Broadwell and Haswell with DDR3 at 1600Mhz CAS9 vs Skylake DDR4-2133 @ CAS15)
I honestly was expecting Skylake to be a better "tock" than this. Imagine Broadwell overclocked at 4.3GHz, vs Skylake at 4.7GHz (only 9% clock increase)? The difference would be even more dramatic, as the gap is lessened from 3.3GHz vs 4.0GHz (21% clock increase).
Z97 mobo owners could just swap out CPU's to Broadwell in the future and forget about Skylake... if all they care about is gaming. Yep, I'm mighty tempted to just wait Skylake out. Pissed at Intel for not pushing as hard as they could (going 2 steps forward, but then 1 step backward with L4 EDRAM cache).
Ok with science that the big bang theory requires that fundamental scientific laws do not exist for the first few minutes, but not ok for the creator to defy these laws... 