Best Skylake Processor for Gaming and Editing????

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I know that the 6700k is the best processor for gaming but when it comes to productivity...eehhhh...it has decent performance. But I do heavy projects and multi-tasking, I need a fast skylake processor for productivity, I don't care about the budget as long as I will have fast performance! So yeah, what's the best skylake processor for gaming/productivity?? I want the processor with the same gaming performance as the 6700k but with a stronger performance when it comes to productivity.
 
The 6600k is the most popular processor for gaming as the 6700k's HT capability and small performance edge many feel ain't worth the price premium and therefore many will say that the 6600k is the "best Skylake CPU "for the money". The 6700K is the best Skylake processor. Skylage CPUs use Intel 100 series chipsets (Z170, H170 ...)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_(microarchitecture)

Coming up we have Kaby Lake ... which will be supported on Intel 200 series chipsets .. these are expected to arrive Q4 2016... the Kaby Lake 7700k (Z270 chipset) will replace the Skylake 6700k and the 7600k will replace the 6600k

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaby_Lake

At the present time, we have Broadwell-E processors (X99) that are faster in workstation type applications. These would include the i7-6950X, i7-6900K, i7-6850K and i7-6800K but again, you said best Skylake processor and these are not Skylake. Many folks will invest in this platform thinking well if it's best for certain workstation apps, it must be best for Office / Desktop apps and it must be best for gaming. This is false.

While X99 based Broadwell-E CPus would be best in system w/ 3 or more 9xx series GFX cards, with 1 or 2 GFX cards, the 6700k is, more often than not, faster than Broadwell-E. Selecting a processor for best performance is actually application specific. To answer your question as I think you meant it you would have to:

a) Change topic from "Best Skylake Proocessor for Productivity" to ""Best Proocessor for Productivity" or "Best Proocessor for Productivity which will be available in next 3 months"

b) name the specific applications of concern

The 6800k and 6950X can not be the "Best Skylake Processors for Gaming, Productivity or Editing simply because they are not Skylake processors. In addition, using video editing for example, the best video editing processor will depend on the specific app being used. For Adobe Premier Pro, it would be the 6960X Broadwell-E processor

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For Davinci Resolve, it doesn't matter as this application relies on the GPUs rather than CPU.

For Corel VS, it doesn't have multi-core support so Broadwell-E brings nothing to the table
 

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well. I am looking for a SKYLAKE processor from the lga1151 socket, not the broadwell-e, not the haswell-e. Only skylake. that's why I titled the thread "Best SKYLAKE processor for gaming and editing. I do gaming a lot and video editing.
 


Yes, that was my point ... I answered that question in the 1st paragraph of my post.

The 6600k is the most popular processor for gaming as the 6700k's HT capability and small performance edge many feel ain't worth the price premium and therefore many will say that the 6600k is the "best Skylake CPU "for the money". The 6700K is the best Skylake processor. Skylage CPUs use Intel 100 series chipsets (Z170, H170 ...)

But as you saw in all 3 responses, The only **potentially** "better" processors for video editing than the 6700k are not Skylake and, depending on the specific application being used, there may be no better processor at all.
 

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yeah they are identical when it comes to GAMING PERFORMANCE but how about when it comes to PRODUCTIVITY PERFORMANCE????
 

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Then I will have to go with the 6700k as it is the best processor for gaming/productivity in the SKYLAKE line-up. Anyways, thank you for clarifying and gving me important info!
 

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What kind of editing are you looking at? LinusTechTips did a video not that long ago where he compared a 22 core Xeon (44 thread) vs a 6 core i7 (12 thread) both using Titan GPUs. He had found out that with many rendering programs clock speed was more important than the number of cores. The Xeon lost in most of the benchmarks due to it.
 


Again....

The 6600k is the most popular processor for gaming as the 6700k's HT capability and small performance edge many feel ain't worth the price premium and therefore many will say that the 6600k is the "best Skylake CPU "for the money". The 6700K is the best Skylake processor. Skylage CPUs use Intel 100 series chipsets (Z170, H170 ...)

Didn't say that the 6700k was the "Best Skylake Gaming Processor". The 6700k is the best Skylake processor ... notice the PERIOD !

That means ....

The 6700k is the best Skylake Processor for gaming
The 6700k is the best Skylake Processor for productivity
The 6700k is the best Skylake Processor for video editing
The 6700k is the best Skylake Processor for [insert any other activity that can be done on a PC here]