upgrade from skylake to kaby lake

[TBES]

You wnat to upgrade to kaby lake if you are a gamer. So I was browsing youtube today and looked at fps benchmarks. On most current games it is 10 percent better. I reccomend to all of your who are currently on skylake to upgrade to kaby lake. If not your leaving fps gains on the table.

 

[Multipack]

A brand new chip costing hundreds of dollars for 10 or 20fps?

And Tom's Hardware disagrees http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/intel-kaby-lake-core-i7-7700k-overclocking-performance-review,4836.html

 

[DJDeCiBeL]

Kaby Lake is basically just a higher clocked Skylake with a couple new features I don't need, so I don't think so. I'll just stick to my 4.7 Ghz 6600K, and it'll STILL be a good bit faster than a stock clocked Kaby chip.

 

[TBES]

You guys can disagree but I want the best

 

[TMTOWTSAC]

Unless you're jumping from an i3 to an i5 or an i5 to an i7, there's no improvement aside from slightly higher clocks. It'll use a little less power and have better integrated video playback I guess. Which isn't a big selling point for gamers with dedicated GPU's.

 

[TBES]

you can check the benchmarks online they are simply better. The way I look at it if there is a 5% increase i want it

 

[TMTOWTSAC]

Almost all the benchmarks show GPU's reaching their limits while the CPU chugs along just fine. Unless you're running dual Titan's or something. Then by all means.

 

[DJDeCiBeL]

Unless you're running dual Titan's or something. Then by all means.

In that case, then even Kaby won't really be the answer. You'd need Haswell-E to wring out every single drop of performance from those.

Edit: Should have said "OR" Broadwell-E, but the point still stands.

 

[rderubeis]

What resolution do you play at, and how many hertz is your monitor ?

 

[TMTOWTSAC]

Unless you're running dual Titan's or something. Then by all means.

In that case, then even Kaby won't really be the answer. You'd need Haswell-E to wring out every single drop of performance from those.

You're right, for the extra PCIE lanes alone, even without taking the extra cores into account. If the OP wants the best with no compromises, absolutely the way to go.

 

[TBES]

What resolution do you play at, and how many hertz is your monitor ?

144 1080p

 

[chemmajorp53]

IDK, the only reason that looks compelling to me to upgrade from Skylake to Kaby Lake is HDCP 2.2 support

 

[Multipack]

IDK, the only reason that looks compelling to me to upgrade from Skylake to Kaby Lake is HDCP 2.2 support

Only if you use iGPU though.

 

[DJDeCiBeL]

Only if you use iGPU though.

Yep, it means nothing if you use a dedicated GPU (which I'd dare say that most people that frequent Tom's do).

 

[chemmajorp53]

I mean I game on a 144hz 1080p monitor and have a 4k60 monitor to the side, I'd happilyplug the 4k into the motherboard if it meant that I could stream in 4k on netflix. Not saying I'd actually upgrade though, it's probably easier to just buy a roku

 

[Ecky]

Yes, Kabby is faster than Skylake. It's the same chip, just clocked slightly higher, and is probably the smallest generational improvement Intel has ever released, but it's still an improvement. I quit chasing the bleeding edge years ago when I found I had better things to do with my time and money, but it was fun while it lasted.

 

[hst101rox]

Kaby Lake... not worth it, unless for the PCI express lanes if applicable. Or 4K video complete compatibility within the iGPU. CPU cores aren't any more powerful, just a slight clock increase. Most boring release to date.
Coffee Lake; Intel's 4th gen 14nm CPU may bring something to the table but I'm not holding my breath.

 

[CrocDust17]

You wnat to upgrade to kaby lake if you are a gamer. So I was browsing youtube today and looked at fps benchmarks. On most current games it is 10 percent better. I reccomend to all of your who are currently on skylake to upgrade to kaby lake. If not your leaving fps gains on the table.

 

[CrocDust17]

10%?really?if you play in 60 fps on skylake that means only 66 fps on kaby lake,i already benchmark I5 6500 vs 7500 is only 5 fps more on the kaby lake,so if you want to upgrade from skylake to kaby lake IT'S TOTALLY NOT WORTH IT (100%)

 

[TBES]

10%?really?if you play in 60 fps on skylake that means only 66 fps on kaby lake,i already benchmark I5 6500 vs 7500 is only 5 fps more on the kaby lake,so if you want to upgrade from skylake to kaby lake IT'S TOTALLY NOT WORTH IT (100%)

It's way more than 5fps. Trust me. Especially when you have a 144hz monitor. The 20% gain really means something. A lot of times it's more than 20%

 

[TBES]

Also, the overclockinf capabilities far exceed skylake.

 

[Gon Freecss]

Kaby Lake is basically just a higher clocked Skylake with a couple new features I don't need, so I don't think so. I'll just stick to my 4.7 Ghz 6600K, and it'll STILL be a good bit faster than a stock clocked Kaby chip.

What this guy just said.

Kaby Lake is pretty much Devil's Canyon all over again, although they released it as a 'new generation' which is bullshit honestly.