Since the "tick tock" route was determined, Intel processors have been upgraded year by year. But the plan can’t keep up with the rapid changes. The pace of upgrading year by year was broken in 2014! In desperation, Haswell refresh came to the rescue, and five and six generations were forced (fate?) It is planned to be launched together in 2015, while the 14 nm core has two different destinies!? Five generations are not parents, six generations are?

As the heavyweight product of 2015, the sixth generation core I, code name: skylake is planned to be officially released on August 5. But before that, all kinds of "sneaking" phenomena on the Internet have reached the point of "repeatedly forbidden", and even can be booked in advance abroad (ah ~ every time, take it easy).

● what has skylake updated?

The characteristics of "skylake" can be summarized as follows: 1. New architecture of 14nm process, stronger performance, greater overclocking potential, it is said that someone has successfully overclocked to 5.2GHz under air cooling, and removed the voltage regulator; 2. Core graphics card enhanced, upgraded to the ninth generation of core display, and the current core display model is confirmed as: Iris 550 belongs to GT3 level (48 execution units); 3. Interface change, use Lga1151 interface, incompatible with old platform. 4. DDR4 and ddr3l (low voltage) are supported at the same time. 1.5V DDR3 is not compatible. The high-end Z170 motherboard is all DDR4 slots. The mainstream B150 has ddr3l and DDR4 sockets coexisting.

Due to the voltage regulator originally integrated from the Haswell era, it will be removed from skylake! The power supply design of the next generation (100 Series) motherboard ignited the "battle of stacking materials".

In addition, it is worth noting that Intel is equipped with 72 execution unit GPUs on skylake for the first time, and the core display specification is further improved. According to the information leaked before, in the 3dmark11 benchmark test, the performance of iris 550 is more than 35% higher than that of hd4600 of the existing Haswell architecture, but it is not as good as that of iris 6200 of Broadwell architecture, after all, they are not at the same level. At the same time, the decoding ability will be further enhanced, supporting JPEG, jmpg, MPEG2, Vc1, wmv9, AVC, H.264, VP8, hevc / h.265 hard solution, and the latest versions of DirectX, OpenGL and OpenCL APIs.