Today’s big news is all about Intel’s 6th generation CPU, some folks are actually thinking why Intel would want to release a 6th generation CPU instead of making a gradual jump or continue making 5th generation Intel Core processors, which has been in the market for the past six months with a steep price tag, are they really far off from one another, let’s explore.
Haswell E emphasizes on hardcore performance, Skylake emphasizes on balance between power efficiency and performance
First of all, we do have to agree that Intel tends to confuse the consumer with its 5th generation desktop processors, codenamed Haswell E, in which the ‘E’ stands for enthusiast is designed specifically for the company’s performance grade X99 chipset and the first to support DDR4-2133 RAM, this platform is the most powerful Intel platform to date and you can also refer processors in these range as the Extreme Edition of Intel’s 4th generation desktop processors, which is available in an 8-core and 6-core model. In contrast, Skylake is the real successor to Intel’s 4th generation Haswell processors, which features only quad-core Core i7 and Core i5 processors in its portfolio, which results a lower power consumption on your PC than Haswell E.
Skylake features a built-in GPU, while Haswell E does not
Since Skylake is designed for the mainstream users, Intel has included its very own graphics silicon in the heart of the processor, which theoretically reduces the cost of investment of your new desktop PCs as the Intel HD Graphics 530 GPU should be able to offer some decent hardware video decoding and smooth frame rates in games like CS:GO with its 1.15GHz maximum frequency. On the other hand, Haswell E does not have a built-in GPU and that makes a lot of sense, since users would have purchased a dedicated GPU rather than relying on a low performance graphics processor.
More choices of motherboards for Skylake than Haswell E
Let’s face it, not everyone is ready to invest in super high performance processors, hence the scarcity of X99 motherboards out there, if you aren’t too particular about that couple of seconds in speed, Skylake processors should serve you well enough for most applications and games, best of all you would have many choices of motherboards to choose from, which some can ultimately unleash some great potential out of the much more affordable processors. Click on the link to know more about Z170 motherboards from MSI, Gigabyte, ASRock and BIOSTAR.
Conclusion: Skylake isn’t replacing Haswell E, it is a new product family
To keep it short and simple, the new Skylake desktop processors may be built upon the most efficient die size with Intel’s latest performance trick, but this isn’t an upgrade from the 5th generation extreme performance Haswell E processors, but we would rather consider it to be the replacement of the company’s 4th generation Intel Core desktop processors. With the release of Intel’s Skylake processors, DDR4 RAMs can get more affordable and computer systems can run more efficiently without sacrificing performance, stay tuned to us while there are a couple of Intel 100 series motherboards coming our way in this couple of weeks.
