Intel Skylake i7 Performance Figures Leaked and Pictured

[Greenback]

Intel gave far too much away with Sandybridge as they were expecting more from Bulldozer.

God, I bet they wish they could take that back now lol. It probably lost them millions by releasing it when they did

Can't complain picked my 2500k and MB up in 1 of aria's today only specials Think the complete system only cost £450 so a money well spent for the years it has lasted

 

[kully1972]

I`ve been thinking of upgrading to z97 or x99 myself but my 2500k and sniper 2 z68 are doing fantastically well right now with a 970 sli set up.
Skylake is over-rated only really offering on-die gaming perf and efficiency gains. Not really worth the money.
Look at all the analysis 99% of games only utilize four cores and until the next generation of consoles force developers to program for higher no.of cores its going to stay that way!
Console gaming is what brings profits to the publishers and developers...

 

[MiNo]

Does anyone know if it will possible to do a PCIe layout as follows:

GPU1 : 8 lanes
GPU2 : 8 lanes
High speed storage : 4 lanes
----------
Total of the 20 lanes supported by Syklake.

I ask, since the wikipedia writeup is not clear on this and I cannot find it mentioned specifically anywhere.

If it is the case, and someone will build a mobo with enough spacing (2 free slots) between the GPUS in the PCIe 8 slots, then this will be the basis for my next build.

 

[realneil]

Intel gave far too much away with Sandybridge as they were expecting more from Bulldozer.

God, I bet they wish they could take that back now lol. It probably lost them millions by releasing it when they did

They made a killing with them. I bought three of them and still use one. I'm glad that it happened that way.

 

[Agost]

Does anyone know if it will possible to do a PCIe layout as follows:

GPU1 : 8 lanes
GPU2 : 8 lanes
High speed storage : 4 lanes
----------
Total of the 20 lanes supported by Syklake.

I ask, since the wikipedia writeup is not clear on this and I cannot find it mentioned specifically anywhere.

If it is the case, and someone will build a mobo with enough spacing (2 free slots) between the GPUS in the PCIe 8 slots, then this will be the basis for my next build.

The chipset has 20 lanes, the CPU 16.

So you can theoretically use 5 PCIEe 3.0 x4 SSDs

 

[MiNo]

The chipset has 20 lanes, the CPU 16.

So you can theoretically use 5 PCIEe 3.0 x4 SSDs

I do not understand the impact of the CPU having a different number of lanes than the chipset. I though there only was 'one' number. Well, for Haswell-E i know both 28 and 40 lanes are possible, depending on the CPU...

So, let me ask like this:

With Skylake, will it be possible to run SLI (using 2 x 8 lanes) and still have 4 lanes left over to use on 'some really fast storage' ?

 

[Agost]

I do not understand the impact of the CPU having a different number of lanes than the chipset. I though there only was 'one' number. Well, for Haswell-E i know both 28 and 40 lanes are possible, depending on the CPU...

So, let me ask like this:

With Skylake, will it be possible to run SLI (using 2 x 8 lanes) and still have 4 lanes left over to use on 'some really fast storage' ?

...again

On Skylake there will be 16 PCIe 3.0 lanes managed by the CPU itself plus 20 PCIe 3.0 lanes from the Z170 chipset ( other chipsets have some differences )

On Haswell-E you have 28 PCIe 3.0 lanes with the 5820K, 40 PCIe 3.0 with 5930K/5960X plus 8 PCIe 2.0 from the chipset

Intel added more lanes to the chipset in order to make the storage move towards M.2 and NVMe and slowly ditch SATA

 

[TheNewNormal]

X99:
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/images/diagrams/x99-chipset-block-diagram.jpg

Z97:
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/images/diagrams/z97-chipset-diagram.png

EDIT:
The above are not Skylake, just examples to illustrate how pcie lanes come off both the cpu and chipset now.

 

[Kushiro]

X99:
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/images/diagrams/x99-chipset-block-diagram.jpg

Z97:
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/images/diagrams/z97-chipset-diagram.png

Skylake is actually 6th gen and runs on Z107. Not exactly clear what you want to do there.

 

[MiNo]

...again

On Skylake there will be 16 PCIe 3.0 lanes managed by the CPU itself plus 20 PCIe 3.0 lanes from the Z170 chipset ( other chipsets have some differences )

On Haswell-E you have 28 PCIe 3.0 lanes with the 5820K, 40 PCIe 3.0 with 5930K/5960X plus 8 PCIe 2.0 from the chipset

Intel added more lanes to the chipset in order to make the storage move towards M.2 and NVMe and slowly ditch SATA

Thanks!

The "Plus" part, was what i did not know. In other words, the Skylake "platform" - meaning a board + a cpu, will offer 36 usable PCIe lanes.

That is much better than i dared hope for. Not that i can say I need ultra fast storage, but I'd really *really* like to go 'next gen' for storage, and finally ditch the old notion of making chip-based storage act like a old mechanical hard-drive.

On top of buling a SLI ready rig that is.