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    Devil's Canyon vs Skyflake

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Spartan@HIDevolution, Mar 7, 2016.

  1. Spartan@HIDevolution

    Spartan@HIDevolution Company Representative

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    Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't the 4790K Devil's Canyon CPU be better than a 6700K since on stock speeds it overclocks to 4.4 GHz?

    I wish I could've bought that CPU but the systems that offer that CPU are kinda old / don't support 980M SLI nor 980GTX (Desktop Class)
     
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    Check out the benchmarks scores. Even without high clock speeds, the 6700k seems to be a tad bit faster.
    That is probably due to DDR4 vs DDR3.
     
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    Plur Notebook Consultant

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    Skylake seems to have slightly better IPC than Haswell and also runs a lot cooler.

    The 6700K is definitely the better chip out of the two.
     
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    There are always exceptions, but a newer platform is always superior.

    Old 'great' hardware is for museums...

    Today's 'current' platform didn't come into existence because it is worse (overall).
     
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    But the newer hardware is not that much better either, maybe 10% at most, except maybe x2 for bitcoin mining but that's maybe due to new instructions?
    But Phoenix answered his own question, cpu difference may not be that big either way, it's the other new stuff, like thunderbolt 3 that comes with skyflake only (as far as I know), could be huge deal.
    I don't expect anything drastic from Intel (neither from Nvidia) for many years to come unless AMD comes back from dead.
     
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    IPC of skylake is higher.

    Remember, a 2700k at 5ghz is probably around a 4ghz 6700k if even...
     
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    What if you use DDR3-2133MHz? Whichever way, Skylake is slightly superior... Personally I rather have a higher clocking CPU then more IPC and lower clocking CPU...
     
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    True, plus as @pete962 mentioned above, its comes with newer connectivity options with Thunderbolt 3.
    DDR3 2133Mhz shouldn't really make too much of a difference. TBH.
     
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