Z170, Skylake 6770K vs X99 5820K

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

@Cat: That's right, Intel are saving money as they are using less in terms of materials used in the production costs of these processors which are lower than they've ever been. If Intel are making cost savings they should be able to pass those savings on to consumers.

Anandtech does a teardown of the chip:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9505/s...ckage-analysis



Broadwell delidded:

http://www.3dnews.ru/assets/external...4/delidded.jpg

Broadwell is a few times larger.

Cost per transistor goes up when a new node comes on line.

It takes time for yield to increase.

Except,the Core i7 5775C uses the same 14nm process,and has more complex packaging when compared to the Core i7 6700K due to the separate L4 cache. When you include the L4 cache,and the larger IGP in the chip the die area is two to three times larger than the Core i7 6700K. Yet the Core i7 5775C and the Core i7 6700K cost the same!

[EvZ_2]

If i buy x99 - will the new CPU's be coming out for it in the future? and if so when?

[Marcvs]

We might see BDW-E Around april next year, but honestly wouldnt be that surprised if they skip it. Skylake-E will be a new platform..

[EvZ_2]

yeah - that's what I'm afraid of, just going for skylake - fits my needs

[ltron]

I think that it's unlikely that they'll skip Broadwell-E, whether Broadwell-E is worth it as an upgrade is debatable considering the 5% performance difference between Haswell and Broadwell at the same clock speed. The only way Broadwell-E would be worthwhile is if the £500 part, the 6930k, is an 8 core instead of a 6 core.

If you overclock, I think you may be underestimating the benefit of the 2 extra cores in rendering and encoding workloads, especially since there is only around a 10% performance increase going from Haswell to skylake, if that. However, skylake is still a capable performer.

[Marcvs]

Word on the street is BDW-E in Q1 2016 and SKL-E in Q3-2016.

I think that it's unlikely that they'll skip Broadwell-E, whether Broadwell-E is worth it as an upgrade is debatable considering the 5% performance difference between Haswell and Broadwell at the same clock speed. The only way Broadwell-E would be worthwhile is if the £500 part, the 6930k, is an 8 core instead of a 6 core.

If you overclock, I think you may be underestimating the benefit of the 2 extra cores in rendering and encoding workloads, especially since there is only around a 10% performance increase going from Haswell to skylake, if that. However, skylake is still a capable performer.

[Blackbod]

An X99 system would have the best performance there is at least a 20% performance increase over a 6700K in applications which support hyperthreading and 6 cores no a 5820K which most editing/rendering software does also a 980Ti would have the necessary power for a Gsync monitor and a 1080p monitor at the same time even if you went for the 6700K but the X99 system will be the best performance you can get right now until Skylake-E/Broadwell-E X99 systems will not be beaten by anything else