Skylake vs Haswell

[Anarkie13]

Just looking for thoughts and opinions on this. I can get a Skylake i5-6500 with H110 motherboard or a Haswell i5-4690k with an H97 motherboard. Same price.

I'm quite torn on this as performance on the 2 sets seem almost identical. Upgradability isn't of concern in this case. It's going to be used long enough as-is that a whole new build will replace it when upgrades are needed.

 

[smorizio]

in real life newer intel cpu is slightly faster. when looking at the build look at both mb check out the number of ram slots/sata ports and usb ports. in real life your going to lose three usb ports. one for the mouse one for the keyboard and one for a usb wifi dongle. some of the low end mb have only 3 or 4 usb ports. also as a tech the lower end mb are also a lot thinner to save money over the higher end cost mb.

 

[ko888]

If the price is the same then definitely get the Skylake.

 

[geofelt]

i5-6500 has a passmark rating of 7044, and a single thread rating of 1943.
I5-4690K has a passmark rating of 7705 and a single thread rating of 2233.
If you can get a motherboard capable of overclocking, the "K" can go even higher.

If you will be using integrated graphics, the skylake 530 graphics is definitely superior.

 

[ComputerSecurityGuy]

The clockspeed bump from Haswell is bigger than Skylake. If you aren't using the iGPU, I would go for the i5-4590K especially since Haswell motherboards and DDR3 are slightly cheaper still.

 

[Quixit]

I'd go 4690K and Z97 if you plan on overclocking it and Skylake if you want to use the iGPU.

Otherwise it doesn't matter much.

 

[jaguarskx]

I would go with the i5-4690k if you plan on overclocking. Assuming the same clockspeed, there is not a big difference between the those two CPU generations. But overclocking the i5-4690k will definitely make more powerful than the i5-6500.

 

[Anarkie13]

Thank you all for the replies. I'll be going with the 4690k, seeing as I can get the motherboard I want for less.