Intel 'Skylake' Core i7-6700K Nvidia's upcoming GeForce GTX 950

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July 31, 2015, 6:45 AM

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Intel is gearing up to release their next-generation Skylake processors as early as next week, but before they've been able to release any official information, a set of benchmarks detailing the flagship Skylake CPU's performance have leaked onto the web.

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The benchmarks come from Chinese website PCOnline, and peg the Skylake-based Intel Core i7-6700K against the Haswell Core i7-4790K and the six-core Haswell-E i7-5820K. The i7-6700K is reportedly a four-core, eight-thread product clocked at 4.0 GHz with a boost of 4.2 GHz and 8 MB of L3 cache.


Like all of Intel's Skylake products, it will be built using a 

14nm manufacturing process.


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PCOnline allegedly benchmarked the

Core i7-6700K on a Z170-based motherboard with 8 GB of memory,

and with an

Nvidia

GeForce GTX 980 Ti

for graphics workloads.

As expected, the i7-6700K was marginally faster than the i7-4790K across a range of CPU-limited benchmarks.

The flagship Core i7-6700K is expected to feature a 95W TDP, higher than current Haswell SKUs. However, the processor will reportedly use less power during CPU workloads than Haswell due to a more efficient architecture and a die shrink to 14nm, with extra TDP headroom going to more beefy integrated graphics than previous flagship SKUs.

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Nvidia's upcoming GeForce GTX 950

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With Nvidia reportedly set to announce a new mid-range graphics card in under a month's time, rumors are starting to appear that allegedly reveal this card's specifications and features in detail.
 
This new graphics card will allegedly be known as the GeForce GTX 950, not the 'GTX 950 Ti' as was previously rumored, and will use a cut down version of Nvidia's GM206 GPU that was first seen in the GTX 960.

For the GTX 950, one quarter of the GM206's CUDA cores will be disabled, giving it a core count of 768 with 48 TMUs and 32 ROPs.

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 The GTX 950's clock speeds will reportedly sit at 1150 to 1250 MHz with a boost clock of 1350 to 1450 MHz: higher than the clock speeds seen on the GTX 960.

 The graphics card will come with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory on a 128-bit bus, providing around 107 GB/s of bandwidth when clocked somewhere between 6.60 and 6.75 GHz.

 As for other aspects of the card, the GTX 950 will allegedly come with a single 8-pin PCIe power connector despite the GPU's 90W TDP.

 The reference board features two DVI ports, a HDMI 2.0 port and a DisplayPort 1.2 output.

 It will replace the GTX 750 Ti in Nvidia's current line-up, and compete with AMD's Radeon R7 370 in the $150 graphics card market.



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