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A6 7400K = $65
A8 7670K = $110
A10 7870K = $140
Pentium G4500 = $90
Core i3-6100 = $130
Core i3-6320 = $172
Core i5-4460 = $190

- CPU Performance

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Skylake Core i3 is faster than AMD APUs when it comes to CPU performance, even the Pentium does pretty well against the more expensive A8-7670K.

- Integrated Graphics Performance

In light of other recent thread, let's see how HD 530 stacks up when paired with (more) up to date drivers and decent (yet not expensive) DDR4-2666:

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Ouch, quite a bit different from this.

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Locked Intel CPUs can be unofficially overclocked
Digital Foundry pushes Skylake Core i3 and Core i5 processors to 4.4GHz and beyond.

It's safe to say that we've been highly impressed with Intel's Skylake line of processors - architectural advantages along with higher memory bandwidth are producing big gains over established processors. There's just one problem. The best Skylake chips - the overclockable Core i5 6600K and Core i7 6700K - have availability issues, meaning that prices have skyrocketed. However, that may change now that every Skylake chip is overclockable on select motherboards, and the results can be extraordinary. Is this an actual Christmas miracle?

...The end results are fascinating. The Core i3 6100 at 4.44GHz paired with 2666MHz modules produces a noticeable uplift, to the point where our gaming benchmarks actually see the dual-core chip outperform non-overclocked Core i5 2500K and 3570K processors paired with standard (for their time) 1600MHz RAM. It makes one of the very best budget gaming CPUs on the market even better, but there are some curious results. For example, there's no uplift at all on The Witcher 3, despite the test taking place in a highly CPU-bound area. We can't help but feel that our low RAM multiplier might be causing issues there, but on the flipside, it's highly unlikely that a budget i3 would be paired with anything faster...
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www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2015-locked-intel-cpus-can-now-be-overclocked
 
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Discrete GPU Gaming Performance

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Power consumption under load:

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Another review, also with a discrete GPU:

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Actually, the aging FX6350 acquits itself pretty well against even the newest FM2 platforms. For dgpu gaming, it is a better choice than FM2.

Also interesting that Skylake i3 is neck and neck with locked Haswell i5 with a dgpu.

Wish they had tested W3 and FO4.
 
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The Skylake Pentium is doing quite well. Good stuff.

I wonder, if Far Cry 4 is playable on it without any hacks. Heh.
 
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Shivansps said:
This actually makes me wonder if G4400 is better than A4-7300 on IGP.
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Drivers are still saving them from being outperformed. However after Crimsom, that A4 has nothing to do.

Sad thing that Intel is extremely mediocre at their iGPU drivers. Even VIA delivers drivers in more frequency than Intel...
 
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Arachnotronic said:
Proof? The last iGPU driver VIA released for Windows 10 was in August:

http://download.viatech.com/DriverDownloadSubmitAjaxSvl

Intel's last iGPU driver came in November:

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/do...a-Graphics-Driver-for-Windows-7-8-1-10-15-40-

Please stop spewing unsubstantiated nonsense just to get attention. Thanks.
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Beta... not real. The last one before the full one (December 2015) came 6 months ago.
Even their NUC's have more priority.
Even nVIDIA and AMD has better pace on that (nVIDIA monthly and AMD every 2-3 months)

They won't defeat nVIDIA with that.
 
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dark zero said:
Beta... not real. The last one before the full one (December 2015) came 6 months ago.
Even their NUC's have more priority.
Even nVIDIA and AMD has better pace on that (nVIDIA monthly and AMD every 2-3 months)

They won't defeat nVIDIA with that.
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What makes you think Intel's goal is to beat NVIDIA or AMD dGPUs, different strokes for different folks.
 
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Intel's only concern for the iGPU is to have good enough graphics for tablets/surface/mac laptops and such, that's the main reason for the existence of QSV watching and converting video very fast with minimal power drain,they could use this space for more shaders and get better gaming performance if they wanted to.
 
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BigDaveX said:
I'm guessing Lightroom is only single-threaded or very lightly multi-threaded; IIRC, the i5 is the lowest-clocked of the CPUs in this line-up.
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But it gets beaten by Kaveri which has very poor single thread performance. Hmmm maybe it is using the gpu?
 
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sm625 said:
But it gets beaten by Kaveri which has very poor single thread performance. Hmmm maybe it is using the gpu?
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Possibly. It's certainly a very weird set of results; the Pentium G4400 outperforms the i5 and is clocked 200MHz faster, suggesting it's single-thread heavy... but at the same time, the FX-6350 completely demolishes the Kaveri chips, which have comparable clockspeeds and higher IPC.

So yeah, maybe it is using the iGPU... but that would imply that Intel have somehow improved Skylake's iGPU to the point where it can compete with the 980 Ti that they were apparently using with the FX-6350 in compute tasks, which seems a bit far-fetched.
 
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BigDaveX said:
Possibly. It's certainly a very weird set of results; the Pentium G4400 outperforms the i5 and is clocked 200MHz faster, suggesting it's single-thread heavy... but at the same time, the FX-6350 completely demolishes the Kaveri chips, which have comparable clockspeeds and higher IPC.

So yeah, maybe it is using the iGPU... but that would imply that Intel have somehow improved Skylake's iGPU to the point where it can compete with the 980 Ti that they were apparently using with the FX-6350 in compute tasks, which seems a bit far-fetched.
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They're doing batch processing on 200 12MP RAW images and saving the JPEGs, so perhaps the strange results are due to platform differences and bottlenecks elsewhere.
 
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BigDaveX said:
Possibly. It's certainly a very weird set of results; the Pentium G4400 outperforms the i5 and is clocked 200MHz faster, suggesting it's single-thread heavy... but at the same time, the FX-6350 completely demolishes the Kaveri chips, which have comparable clockspeeds and higher IPC.

So yeah, maybe it is using the iGPU... but that would imply that Intel have somehow improved Skylake's iGPU to the point where it can compete with the 980 Ti that they were apparently using with the FX-6350 in compute tasks, which seems a bit far-fetched.
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FX-6350 has 8MB of L3 cache, which the Kaveri chips don't... could factor into it? (Though the i5 obviously has more cache than the Pentium, so... who knows.)
 
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MrTeal said:
They're doing batch processing on 200 12MP RAW images and saving the JPEGs, so perhaps the strange results are due to platform differences and bottlenecks elsewhere.
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Wouldn't surprise me if there were a whole bunch of different bottlenecks at play here; the iGPU in the case of the Haswells (and Skylake Pentium), CPU/cache performance for the Kaveris, and the storage system for the Skylake i3s and FX-6350/980 Ti.
 
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