Upgrade from i5-4690k to 6k series?

[LiveTrash]

As the title suggests, I'm looking at the 6k series of CPUs from Intel. Does anyone think I would notice a reasonable performance gain from the upgrade to make it somewhat worth the purchase or just stick with what I got?

Temps are still low and nothing is wrong with my current CPU. I'm not OC'd, running at 3.5GHz.

fwiw I'm also considering upgrading to to a GTX 1070 sometime later in the year. I'd probably do a CPU upgrade at the same time if necessary. I'm currently running a 780Ti.

 

[davmazin]

Improvements ? you probably will not even notice it if you had an old cpu like mine (i7 2600k), the thing is to see any real improvement would be hard since the difference in performance isn't even a 5% let alone about a 30% which is what i would get if i changed cpu mobo and ram, at least most charts i have seen so far don't point to more performance than that maybe if you work with heavy graphics programs like doing renderings of 3d in photoshop, 3dsmax or similar programs then you might really notice something for games its a hard thing, maybe you willl but my shot is that you wont gain much performance, to be honest if you can save your money and wait for a next round of CPUS to come out then decide

 

[superninja12]

THERES 0 reason to upgrade to the 6th gen cpus.

 

[why_wolf]

you'd see no noticeable improvement. I wouldn't bother thinking about upgrading the CPU until at least Cannon Lake unless you find yourself doing tasks that actually use multi-threading than an i7 or whatever high core CPU Zen has would be worth looking in to.

 

[synphul]

You won't notice much if any difference, a slight difference would be between an i5 and i7, not i5 to i5. You have the option of overclocking the 4690k if you have a z series motherboard and a decent cooler. A typical overclock would easily make up the difference of just one generation (not counting broadwell since its improvements were only efficiency, any faster ipc were offset by lower clocks making it 0 performance increase). An oc'd 4690k will run faster than a stock i5 6600.

Your biggest restraint right now is your graphics card. Here's a comparison of your gpu vs a 1070.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1717?vs=1731

Here's a comparison of your cpu vs a 6600k.
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1261?vs=1544