Kaby Lake vs Cannonlake

[arlemedra]

It looks like cannonlake will be arriving during the second half of 2017. Will the performance difference be worth the wait, or would you recommend kaby lake for a new build. Time isn't a huge factor for me, but if there's only going to be a 5% or less increase in performance I wouldn't consider that worth my time. I would be most likely purchasing an i7.

Thank you in advance for your time.

Edit: I'm not considering AMD at the moment so I don't care about Ryzen.

 

[MWP0004]

It's far too early to tell. The general consensus is that if you're determined to wait to upgrade or build, you will wait perpetually as there is always a new release looming around the corner.

 

[Arthur199]

So it depends which cpu u have now. If u have a very bad one, I would suggest to upgrade to kaby lake, but if u have a sky lake, then wait for cannon lake.

 

[Lopperuk]

I'd recommend kaby lake. I upgraded from Haswell and it was definitely worth it. As long as the cpu is high end it should last a good few years. I doubt cannonlake will blow kaby lake out of the water anyway. What are you going to do? keep waiting every time a new architecture comes out? gotta buy one eventually.