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Can someone explain me new Skylake and Broadwell?

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September 18, 2014 10:56:59 AM

I see alot of articles telling about new processors Skylake and Broadwell, but it is not clear to me which current processors wil be renewed. I'm looking to buy a Haswell-Refresh i7-4790k socket 1150. So I was wondering will one of these two new processors renew this i7 processor? And if so which one of them and what is the release date.

Thanks in advance

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September 18, 2014 11:15:02 AM

Broadwell will be the final refresh for socket 1150. There will not be much of a performance improvement, it will mostly be about reduced power consumption especially for mobile devices. The biggest performance improvement would be for the integrated GPU. For the desktop it is not a big deal since people that play games on desktop PCs will install a graphics card. Broadwell CPUs should be shipping in December 2014, but it probably will not be until early 2015 that there will large quantities available.

Skylake will be using a different socket. Many people are hoping that this will provide a 10%+ performance improvement over Broadwell rather than the anemic 5% - 6% performance increase over the previous generation like the last few CPU generations. The last time when Intel released a CPU that offered a 10%+ boost in performance over the previous generation was Sandy Bridge. There is no official release date other than "2nd half of 2015" which was announced on Sept 9th, 2014 during IDF (Intel Developer Forum) 2014.
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September 18, 2014 12:14:15 PM

jaguarskx said:
Broadwell will be the final refresh for socket 1150. There will not be much of a performance improvement, it will mostly be about reduced power consumption especially for mobile devices. The biggest performance improvement would be for the integrated GPU. For the desktop it is not a big deal since people that play games on desktop PCs will install a graphics card. Broadwell CPUs should be shipping in December 2014, but it probably will not be until early 2015 that there will large quantities available.

Skylake will be using a different socket. Many people are hoping that this will provide a 10%+ performance improvement over Broadwell rather than the anemic 5% - 6% performance increase over the previous generation like the last few CPU generations. The last time when Intel released a CPU that offered a 10%+ boost in performance over the previous generation was Sandy Bridge. There is no official release date other than "2nd half of 2015" which was announced on Sept 9th, 2014 during IDF (Intel Developer Forum) 2014.


Hi Jaguarskx,

Thanks for the explanation. This makes more sense to me. I saw that the Skylake processors wil be U, S, Y but no K variant. I believe this will come later?
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September 19, 2014 7:30:25 AM

I have not really done much research about the upcoming Skylake CPUs.

Traditionally, Intel has released "performance oriented" CPUs first, then the others later. For example, the Core i5 and Core i7 versions will be released first, then Core i3 later. Technical that means the "K" variant would be among the 1st CPUs to be released.

Intel has been focusing more about low power consumption CPUs in the past few years because that is where the growth is. That is why they make such a big deal about the "U" (ultra low power) and "Y" (extremely low power) model CPUs for the mobile market. The "S" model is I think a desktop variant without a graphics core, but I could be wrong.
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September 28, 2014 6:42:55 PM

If you buy a haswell refresh now, broadwell wont be a worthwhile upgrade. Jaguar has already explained it well.
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September 28, 2014 6:53:58 PM

jaguarskx said:


Skylake will be using a different socket. Many people are hoping that this will provide a 10%+ performance improvement over Broadwell rather than the anemic 5% - 6% performance increase over the previous generation like the last few CPU generations. The last time when Intel released a CPU that offered a 10%+ boost in performance over the previous generation was Sandy Bridge.


You know its funny because its true but also a lie. Sandy bridge offered a 10% on the 800 series I7's that launched after the 900 series. so while true its not really true. because the i7 920,920,950 were actually about the same. per clock. but sandy was higher clocked and overclocked superbly. giving it a edge for the higher end users.
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