In the same system (so same GPU, case, cooler, PSU and SSD), we had a 60FPS difference in Grid2! 60! In Bioshock infinite it was 50! That is crazy – and just goes to show how awesome in comparison the 6600K is! Games I was shocked at how much difference these DirectX 11 games had depending on CPU.
Now, unfortunately, we couldn’t get the 4670K to be able to test the games as well, but comparing to our older Pentium G3420 – which I know isn’t quad core, but still proves a point. In Cinebench, we see a decent improvement too, with 656 for the 6600K, and a 540 for the 4670K – again, nice bump! In NOVA bench, we got a CPU score of 597 for the 6600K, and 505 for the 4670K. No what sort of review would this be if I didn’t at least pretend to benchmark this! So, to give you a comparison, we did a few synthetic tests between this and it’s predecessor, the 4670K. Since this chip won’t fit in a Z97 board, and a Z97 chip won’t fit in this board, you’ll need to make sure you get the right board and chip – as well as the fact the boards can be either DDR4 or DDR3! The cool thing about the platform though is that it has given the board makes a chance to put the latest and greatest kit on the boards, such as USB 3.1 Type C (now a standard on mid to high-end boards!) I want to make a note of the Z170 platform that this chip is part of.
Also there seems to be a hell of a lot more resistors on the back of the chip now! This chip is a socket 1151 chip, and as you can see, the slot at the bottoms which is normally occupied with nothing. It’s actually the i5-6600K, which means you get 4 cores with no hyperthreading, and 6MB of cache – compared the the i7-6700K’s 8MB of 元 cache. This rather sexy looking beast is Intel’s latest generation (6th to be precise), Skylake CPU. With similar performance to a 4770K, more overclocking features, and a lower TDP, this is a truly compelling buy! Skylake launched with a bang, and this new i5 is no exception.