Even with these numbers, Kaby Lake is the disappointment we've been waiting for. Compared to Skylake, there are no architecture tweaks, just a refined process which improves efficiency. All of the performance gains likely come from the higher stock clocks, 4.2 GHz vs 3.9 GHz. The 7500K is clocked about 7% faster which explains the 6% gains in single-threaded performance. Once we remove the clock speed advantage, performance is very likely the same. The one area of improvement though is the multithreaded workload where the 7500K may be able to better hold its boost clocks due to the refined process.
Cannonlake 4c 10nm shrink and Coffee Lake 14nm 6 core processors are both coming to z170 and 1151 platform. So, this is one of the longer supported platforms intel has ever released.
Personally Im waiting another year and buying coffee lake if its priced right, but Kaby lake might be tempting if I can buy a 5 ghz chip for cheap on silicon lottery.
Cannonlake 4c 10nm shrink and Coffee Lake 14nm 6 core processors are both coming to z170 and 1151 platform. So, this is one of the longer supported platforms intel has ever released.
Personally Im waiting another year and buying coffee lake if its priced right, but Kaby lake might be tempting if I can buy a 5 ghz chip for cheap on silicon lottery.
Coffee lake won't be released for another 15 months or so. At this point who knows what platforms it is going to be released on. Even intel might not know this far out.
For gaming, I'd be hard pressed to find enough games where the extra $100 it would cost to acquire an i7 6700K would be a better decision than spending the equivalent amount on a better GPU. i5 6600K+GTX 1070 would outperform i7 6700K+GTX 1060 in most games.
EDIT: I do however completely agree with your base sentiment that games are starting to take advantage of >4 threads. Once a gamer has upgraded every other part of his rig - strong GPU, 1440p/144Hz monitor, mechanical keyboard, SSD - I would definitely recommend the next upgrade being an i7 CPU. The re-entry of AMD into the high-end CPU market next year with Zen will make things especially interesting, as we may see an 8C/16T Broadwell-class CPU selling at i7 6800K prices or a 4C/8T one at i5 6600K prices.
And here I am with a 2500k at 4.6 GHz doing everything I need. For 6 years. I want to upgrade so bad but it's not worth spending $500+ on CPU+MB+DDR4 for like a 15% increase in speed.
Coffee lake won't be released for another 15 months or so. At this point who knows what platforms it is going to be released on. Even intel might not know this far out.
Intel knows. Nothing is done haphazardly with these things.
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