Question about upgrading from a 2600k

[logicx]

Im looking to upgrade my cpu in a few months and most forums I read people say most cpus out right now are not worth upgrading to. Any word on if skylake will be a worthy cpu to upgrade to from a 2600k?

 

[Ubrales]

Here is my reply to a previous post:

The Z97 chipset from Intel, supports the current Haswell (22 nm) and upcoming Broadwell (14 nm) CPUs scheduled for release during mid 2015. Broadwell is essentially a die shrink of the Haswell process.

Broadwell is likely to offer a relatively small performance boost over the current Haswell chips. It is essentially the same architecture as Haswell, shrunk down to 14nm from the existing 22nm process.

(Skylake processors (6th gen CPUs) will be released in the second half of 2015. They have a new microarchitecture, 14nm process, and is more energy efficient).

Broadwell will work in your present motherboard, but for the marginal improvement I do not recommend doing so. Wait for Skylake and see what it has to offer.

From this, yes Skylake would be a nice upgrade, but the socket is LGA 1151 (new motherboard).

 

[4Ryan6]

At this point you may as well just wait like the rest of us.

No one can tell you anything for absolute sure regarding Skylake until it arrives for testing.

 

[popatim]

A few leaked benchmarks show a roughly 20% improvement in the IPC over Haswell.

 

[synphul]

I'd be curious to see bench's when it's finally released. Given their track record, one gen to the next usually doesn't give a 20% increase in ipc. There's probably little more than 20-25% or so ipc increase from 1st gen to 4th. 20% in a single generation improvement sounds optimistic but maybe.