Intel skylake performance review: Finally ! After Broadwell launched stealthily with months of delays on LGA 1150, the Skylake processors arrive with their share of novelties. Spearheading the range, it is the Core i7-6700K and Core i5-6600K being launched initially. On the menu of this new “tock” found over the Haswell 14nm passage, improved … Read more
Haswell-E and LGA 2011-v3 After landing on the LGA 1150 platform in June 2013 the Haswell architecture now reaches LGA 2011-v3 with Core i7-5960X, 5930K and 5820K. This platform opens the way the arrival of DDR4 in our machines. LGA 1366 and LGA 2011 little background For several years now, Intel is changing … Read more
Xeon 14 nm Broadwell-EP arrive. They provide lot of optimizations and features enable Intel to keep its advantage in this highly lucrative market. Broadwell-EP, its new Xeon v4 that replace Haswell-EP (Xeon v3). Unsurprisingly, the move to 14 nm allows the addition of more cores while maintaining the same TDP. The processor is also … Read more