Any Take on Skylake? Gonna be out in a few weeks!

[Abhishek Nair]

What do you guys think about skylake?Should i wait for it or buy an Haswell?

 

[utgotye]

You should wait for it and then maybe buy a Haswell/Devils Canyon.

 

[Abhishek Nair]

So,will there be a succesor to all the current cpu's?

 

[rgd1101]

Less than a month 8/5 (I think). Personally, I'm waiting for the review to decide too.

 

[CDdude55]

For most people Haswell and even Sandy Bridge is still enough for most tasks, as mentioned i'd wait and see the reviews first. Personally i don't think Skylake will make me upgrade from my Z97 platform, not just because i'm poor lol. For my gaming needs i still have yet to see a large bell curve in CPU performance.

 

[Quixit]

For most people Haswell and even Sandy Bridge is still enough for most tasks, as mentioned i'd wait and see the reviews first. Personally i don't think Skylake will make me upgrade from my Z97 platform, not just because i'm poor lol. For my gaming needs i still have yet to see a large bell curve in CPU performance.

Why would you update for every single platform? If you already have z97, you'd be stupid to buy into Sky Lake.

I'm still using a i5-2500k because overclocked it's faster than Ivy Bridge and almost on par with a Haswell i5 (also overclocked) because Sandy Bridge has more overclocking headroom and there haven't been that many important architecture changes because Intel is pouring most of their development dollars into the iGPU. I'm considering Sky Lake, but only if it's got some clock headroom.

 

[utgotye]

Skylake is a upgrade for people with Sandy Bridge or older or any AMD CPU. There is zero reason to upgrade based solely on the supposed performance gains if you have an Ivy Bridge or Haswell.

 

[not you]

^so you say it is worth it to upgrade to skylake from a10-6800k? (I dont use the igpu)

 

[CDdude55]

For most people Haswell and even Sandy Bridge is still enough for most tasks, as mentioned i'd wait and see the reviews first. Personally i don't think Skylake will make me upgrade from my Z97 platform, not just because i'm poor lol. For my gaming needs i still have yet to see a large bell curve in CPU performance.

Why would you update for every single platform? If you already have z97, you'd be stupid to buy into Sky Lake.

I'm still using a i5-2500k because overclocked it's faster than Ivy Bridge and almost on par with a Haswell i5 (also overclocked) because Sandy Bridge has more overclocking headroom and there haven't been that many important architecture changes because Intel is pouring most of their development dollars into the iGPU. I'm considering Sky Lake, but only if it's got some clock headroom.

That's exactly what i was saying, the performance has to warrant the cost and i haven't seen that. It's largely depending on currently what you're running. Sandy Bridge was such a good architecture that it's still hard to justify the cost of a new platform. Maybe AMD's Zen will make me want to spend more money on hardware, but Skylake most likely wont.

 

[utgotye]

Realistically we are getting roughly 5-10% (some more, some less) with each generation. Let's split the difference and assume it holds true for Skylake.

Sandy - 100
Ivy - 107.5
Haswell - 115.5625
Broadwell - 124.2296875
Skylake - 133.5469140625

Thus, in theory, and at equivalent clock speeds, a Skylake CPU should be about 1/3 (33ish%) faster than a Sandy Bridge.

 

[utgotye]

For most people Haswell and even Sandy Bridge is still enough for most tasks, as mentioned i'd wait and see the reviews first. Personally i don't think Skylake will make me upgrade from my Z97 platform, not just because i'm poor lol. For my gaming needs i still have yet to see a large bell curve in CPU performance.

Why would you update for every single platform? If you already have z97, you'd be stupid to buy into Sky Lake.

I'm still using a i5-2500k because overclocked it's faster than Ivy Bridge and almost on par with a Haswell i5 (also overclocked) because Sandy Bridge has more overclocking headroom and there haven't been that many important architecture changes because Intel is pouring most of their development dollars into the iGPU. I'm considering Sky Lake, but only if it's got some clock headroom.

That's exactly what i was saying, the performance has to warrant the cost and i haven't seen that. It's largely depending on currently what you're running. Sandy Bridge was such a good architecture that it's still hard to justify the cost of a new platform. Maybe AMD's Zen will make me want to spend more money on hardware, but Skylake most likely wont.

Agreed. I went from a 3570 to a 4790K, not because I needed the performance per se, but because my Dad was upgrading his PC from an old Athlon 6000+ and he was looking at a Sandy i3. I told him I'd dsell him my i5 for the price of his i3 and I'd upgrade myself. We both ending up winning since I made a trip to Micro Center and got him some RAM and SSD out of the deal.

 

[Abhishek Nair]

Hey guys! Thnx for the quick response,for 5-10 •/• TDP increse the skylake gives 10 - 20 •/• performance boost!