Intel Skylake 6700k + Corsair 3000 Mhz Memory

I'm now running a skylake 6700k cpu + corsair DDR4 3000 Mhz 15-17-17-35 memory and I didn't even have to reinstall windows. Everything worked fine, just some driver updates and windows itself had to update some stuff.

Did some quick benchmarking in fallout 4 at the top of the corvega factory which is known to run at very low fps. With my old system I ran at about 23-25 fps in a specific and demanding place when I looked exactly the "wrong" direction :P With the new system I ran 46-47 fps in the same place so pretty much double the speed so holy wow batman!

Also did a benchmark in x3 rolling demo but amd graphics drivers wanted to update in the middle of it so had to cancel it since it tabbed out. But it wasn't that interesting anyway, maybe 10% faster or so.

Realstorm Bench 2006 had some pretty nice speedups though. But it doesn't have any export feature so I'll have to typ in data manually here...

Can't remember the amd cpus I had many years ago so yeah but every cpu on the list is overclocked a fair bit except the skylake since I've only had the system running for a few hours so far.

HouseR bench average fps 1024x576:

Amd cpu 2006:  7.53fps

Amd cpu 2007   11.65fps

Intel E7400        14.05fps

Intel i5-2400      19.96fps

Intel 4690k         25.31fps

Intel 6700k         30.80fps

White bench average fps 1024x576:

Amd cpu 2006:  4.52fps

Amd cpu 2007   5.53fps

Intel E7400        8.26fps

Intel i5-2400      9.54fps

Intel 4690k        14.15fps

Intel 6700k        14.82fps

HouseV bench average fps 1280x768:

Amd cpu 2006:  2.55fps

Amd cpu 2007   3.46fps

Intel 4690k        8.03fps

Intel 6700k        10.02fps

Pretty big variation between benchmarks but low is 5% faster and high 25% faster so not too bad for a cpu that mostly improves multithreading.

Reason I upgraded to haswell from sandy bridge

So the reason I upgraded to haswell from sandy bridge is largely due to one benchmark. X3 rolling demo since I love X3 terran conflict. Benchmark results follow below

Amd 290 and Intel I5 2400 overclocked to 3.6Ghz

  Scene "Trade" 63.8 average fps 24.0 minimum fps 140.0 maximum fps
  Scene "Fight" 135.2 average fps 52.0 minimum fps 294.0 maximum fps
  Scene "Build" 188.2 average fps 109.0 minimum fps 411.0 maximum fps
  Scene "Think" 88.3 average fps 47.0 minimum fps 162.0 maximum fps

Overall average framerate: 118.9 fps

Amd 290 and Intel I5 4690K overclocked to 4Ghz

  Scene "Trade" 84.6 average fps 35.0 minimum fps 187.0 maximum fps
  Scene "Fight" 177.6 average fps 67.0 minimum fps 387.0 maximum fps
  Scene "Build" 233.9 average fps 141.0 minimum fps 455.0 maximum fps
  Scene "Think" 109.7 average fps 59.0 minimum fps 197.0 maximum fps

Overall average framerate: 151.4 fps

General performance improvement is a decent 30% which is noticeable but have a look at minimum fps in the scene trade. Goes from 24 to 35 fps aka an increase of just over 45% and this is the sort of benchmarks you rarely see in Cpu reviews nowadays. This is also the reason I'm about to upgrade to a skylake cpu. Going by reviews skylake pretty much isn't any faster than anything really but find the right reviews and skylake can be up to 50% faster in certain situations at the same Ghz as haswell.

Pretty much skylake in general give this improvement in speed compared to haswell at same Ghz.

Great Polish skylake review (pics tell the story)

Singlethreaded apps 10%
Multithreaded  apps 20%
Hyperthreading adds up to 30% beyond multithreading improvements
DDR4 anywere from 0% to almost 70%
Overclocking 5-10% compared to current 4690k cpu (which I have overclocked to 4Ghz on default voltage)

Adding up to a total of  100ish % in well multithreaded fairly memory intensive games (assuming 10% overclock and 20% memory scaling going from ddr3 1600 to ddr4 3000) And maybe 10% in singlethreaded non memory intensive games... Will be very interesting to see what X3 rolling demo shows!

And here we see a 4770k go from 51 to 85 fps minimum in fallout 4 which is an insane improvement of 66% from an 80% memory speed increase! And honestly I have no explanation from why that is. A guess would be fallout 4 is optimized for the consoles with higher bandwidth//superfast eDRAM
Memory speed difference in fallout 4


Stay tuned for when I upgrade to skylake during christmas and I'll be posting Realstorm Bench2006 benchmarks I've been collecting since 2006 and ran on every cpu upgrade I've done since then. For those who don't know what that is (which I suspect is most of you). It's a realtime raytracing benchmark with 5 different scenes and unfortunately it's only a single core benchmark and it's not supported anymore. But it still runs well in windows 10. Only problem is that any resolution below 640x480 isn't supported in windows 7/8/10

See you later hardcore hardware hackers.