Intel Skylake Processors: Up to 20% Performance Boost, 41% Faster Graphics and 30% Longer Battery Life

[jnpy!$4g3cwk]

It also gives motherboard manufacturers another check mark to put onto their products to promote them over others. ... motherboard makers need to have other features to sell their boards

I'm hoping to see motherboards supporting HDMI 2.0 advertised as such. SuperMicro has a couple of new boards out, but, I couldn't tell from the specs that I saw what they were doing wrt HDMI.

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Core/index.cfm#1151

EDIT:

Mea culpa: here is an article on Anandtech that outlines 55 new motherboards for Skylake/LGA1151.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9485/...-asrock-asus-gigabyte-msi-ecs-evga-supermicro

I imagine most of the new features are tried out somewhere in all those boards.

 

[Eidorian]

I'm hoping to see motherboards supporting HDMI 2.0 advertised as such. SuperMicro has a couple of new boards out, but, I couldn't tell from the specs that I saw what they were doing wrt HDMI.

http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Core/index.cfm#1151

EDIT:

Mea culpa: here is an article on Anandtech that outlines 55 new motherboards for Skylake/LGA1151.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9485/...-asrock-asus-gigabyte-msi-ecs-evga-supermicro

I imagine most of the new features are tried out somewhere in all those boards.

I am still waiting for more Mini-ITX boards hit retail channels. With 55 ready at the starting gate, I am sure that one of them somewhere is going to have sticker with "Supports 4K @ 60 Hz".

 

[jnpy!$4g3cwk]

I am still waiting for more Mini-ITX boards hit retail channels. With 55 ready at the starting gate, I am sure that one of them somewhere is going to have sticker with "Supports 4K @ 60 Hz".

From the Anandtech article, it sounds like Gigabyte is planning for it, but, doesn't yet have the firmware working. That is on an expensive board -- $499. Very, very expensive for this type of board, I would say.

The more I look at Skylake, the more baffled I am, though. The CPU performance bump over Haswell is minimal, so, the improved graphics is really the main draw. It can support 4K @ 60 Hz on HDMI, but, they don't make it easy and nobody has it working yet. I'm missing the point of this product release.

 

[Mr. Wonderful]

From the Anandtech article, it sounds like Gigabyte is planning for it, but, doesn't yet have the firmware working. That is on an expensive board -- $499. Very, very expensive for this type of board, I would say.

The more I look at Skylake, the more baffled I am, though. The CPU performance bump over Haswell is minimal, so, the improved graphics is really the main draw. It can support 4K @ 60 Hz on HDMI, but, they don't make it easy and nobody has it working yet. I'm missing the point of this product release.

The CPU offers mostly power and GPU improvements. As such, it would make sense to wait for the mobile processor lineup reviews before making any conclusions. Other than that, Skylake is more about the platform features and improvements, rather than raw IPC. The increased PCI-e bandwidth alone will be huge for the Mac Pro, for example, and wireless charging, USB Type-C, HDMI 2.0, Thunderbolt 3, audio acceleration improvements, and h.265 video acceleration are going to be huge for mobile. Not to mention a wider range of chips including the L4 memory cache for graphics.

 

[Eidorian]

From the Anandtech article, it sounds like Gigabyte is planning for it, but, doesn't yet have the firmware working. That is on an expensive board -- $499. Very, very expensive for this type of board, I would say.

The more I look at Skylake, the more baffled I am, though. The CPU performance bump over Haswell is minimal, so, the improved graphics is really the main draw. It can support 4K @ 60 Hz on HDMI, but, they don't make it easy and nobody has it working yet. I'm missing the point of this product release.

This feels a lot like Lynnfield and Nehalem. The performance is about the same with a year apart but the platform is different entirely. I have had the chance to build a new machine all these years but as mentioned in the previous post, I'm not in it for the CPU power alone.

$499 is overkill for a motherboard and more so for a LGA 1151.

 

[rdav]

ArsTechnica (today). "Skylake’s graphics architecture: Intel is still gunning for dedicated GPUs."

http://arstechnica.co.uk/gadgets/2015/08/skylakes-graphics-architecture-intel-is-still-gunning-for-dedicated-gpus/

Quote/s:
Intel’s GPUs have steadily been improving their 4K support over the last couple of years and Skylake’s makes a few more advances in that direction. Like Broadwell, the GPUs will support 4K output at 60Hz over DisplayPort 1.2 or Embedded DisplayPort 1.3, 4K output at 24Hz over HDMI 1.4, and 4K output at 30Hz over Intel’s Wireless Display or the Miracast protocol.

New to Skylake is kind-of-sort-of support for HDMI 2.0, which provides the bandwidth necessary to push 4K screens at 60Hz. It has to be pushed out via a DisplayPort to HDMI 2.0 adapter, though, and we don’t yet know if there are specific requirements that dictate what kind of adapter you need to use. Intel will also support HDMI 2.0 over Thunderbolt 3, for the systems that include the controller.
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[Gabichon]

You lost all credibility when you used "lulz"...

Please learn to post to threads as a mature individual and we might take you seriously.

Hi Dad.

Lulz.