Intel Launches 6th Generation Core Processor aka Skylake

Just a little over a month after unveiling the last wave of Broadwell chips, Intel debuted the first two members of the 6th Generation Core processors lineup, namely the Intel Core i5-6600K and the Intel Core i7-6700K.

intel skylake philippines

Following the company’s tick-tock credo, these new Skylake desktop chips are still going to be based on 14nm manufacturing process like the Broadwell processors before it. However, the new processors will feature the new LGA1151 socket and will be accompanied by the new Z170 chipset.

As signified by the“K” suffix, both the i5-6600K and the i7-6700K are unlocked and each of its four processing cores can be overclocked beyond its respective frequencies of 3.5GHz and 4.0GHz.

Intel 6th Generation Specs

The Intel Core i5-6600K and the Intel Core i7-6700K are now available in the market with an SRP of $243 and $350, respectively.

Intel mentioned that other SKUs, along with locked processors, will be announced later this year.

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Intel Launches 6th Generation Core Processor aka Skylake

Just a little over a month after unveiling the last wave of Broadwell chips, Intel debuted the first two members of the 6th Generation Core processors lineup, namely the Intel Core i5-6600K and the Intel Core i7-6700K.

intel skylake philippines

Following the company’s tick-tock credo, these new Skylake desktop chips are still going to be based on 14nm manufacturing process like the Broadwell processors before it. However, the new processors will feature the new LGA1151 socket and will be accompanied by the new Z170 chipset.

As signified by the“K” suffix, both the i5-6600K and the i7-6700K are unlocked and each of its four processing cores can be overclocked beyond its respective frequencies of 3.5GHz and 4.0GHz.

Intel 6th Generation Specs

The Intel Core i5-6600K and the Intel Core i7-6700K are now available in the market with an SRP of $243 and $350, respectively.

Intel mentioned that other SKUs, along with locked processors, will be announced later this year.

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Intel Launches 6th Generation Core Processor aka Skylake

Just a little over a month after unveiling the last wave of Broadwell chips, Intel debuted the first two members of the 6th Generation Core processors lineup, namely the Intel Core i5-6600K and the Intel Core i7-6700K.

intel skylake philippines

Following the company’s tick-tock credo, these new Skylake desktop chips are still going to be based on 14nm manufacturing process like the Broadwell processors before it. However, the new processors will feature the new LGA1151 socket and will be accompanied by the new Z170 chipset.

As signified by the“K” suffix, both the i5-6600K and the i7-6700K are unlocked and each of its four processing cores can be overclocked beyond its respective frequencies of 3.5GHz and 4.0GHz.

Intel 6th Generation Specs

The Intel Core i5-6600K and the Intel Core i7-6700K are now available in the market with an SRP of $243 and $350, respectively.

Intel mentioned that other SKUs, along with locked processors, will be announced later this year.

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Intel Launches 6th Generation Core Processor aka Skylake

Just a little over a month after unveiling the last wave of Broadwell chips, Intel debuted the first two members of the 6th Generation Core processors lineup, namely the Intel Core i5-6600K and the Intel Core i7-6700K.

intel skylake philippines

Following the company’s tick-tock credo, these new Skylake desktop chips are still going to be based on 14nm manufacturing process like the Broadwell processors before it. However, the new processors will feature the new LGA1151 socket and will be accompanied by the new Z170 chipset.

As signified by the“K” suffix, both the i5-6600K and the i7-6700K are unlocked and each of its four processing cores can be overclocked beyond its respective frequencies of 3.5GHz and 4.0GHz.

Intel 6th Generation Specs

The Intel Core i5-6600K and the Intel Core i7-6700K are now available in the market with an SRP of $243 and $350, respectively.

Intel mentioned that other SKUs, along with locked processors, will be announced later this year.

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AMD A8-7670K Now Official

Earlier this week, AMD took the wraps off on the latest addition to the “Godavari” accelerated processing unit (APU) lineup, the unlocked AMD A8-7670k.

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Aimed at budget-conscious PC users, the new A8-7670k packs a total of 10 compute cores which consist of a quartet Steamroller cores with a maximum clock speed of 3.9GHz and a six-core Radeon R7 integrated GPU.

As far as compute performance in concerned, AMD’s new accelerated processing unit is geared to go up against the Intel Core i3-4160 which is in the same price point ($110-120 range). Based on their internal testing the A8-7670K outperforms its rival on all three categories listed on AMD’s presentation.

a8-7670k performance

On the graphics side of things, AMD pitted their new brainchild against another budget-centric offering from Intel, the G3258, with an accompanying NVidia GeForce GT 730. Once again, the A8-7670K came out on top by providing better frame rates on all online games that were ran during AMD’s internal testing.

a8-7670k GPU

AMD A8-7670K specs:
Microarchitecture: Steamroller
Processor Family: Godavari
FM2+ Socket
A88X, A78 & A55 Chipset
3.6 GHz Base Core Clock, 3.9 GHz Turbo Frequency
Quad-core processor with four (4) threads
L1 Cache:
* 2 x 96 KB 3-way set associative shared instruction caches
* 4 x 16 KB 4-way set associative data caches
L2 Cache: 2 x 2 MB 16-way set associative shared caches
Support for dual-channel 2133MHz memory modules
Integrated R7 Series GPU, 757MHz Base Frequency
384 Shader Cores, supports up to 4 displays
95W TDP
Support for DirectX 11.2, DirectX 12 and Mantle APIs
Vulkan, AMD TrueAudio, VCE 2.0 & UVD 4.0
Virtual Super Resolution, FreeSync & EyeFinity

The suggested price (SEP) of the new AMD A8-7670K is $117.99 and is now available on online retailers and participating system vendors.

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