Intel Skylake Performance Benchmarks Leaked on SiSoftware Sandra

The HWBot team has spotted a very interesting entry on the SiSoft Sandra database of a quadcore eight thread Skylake CPU. The specifications appear legitimate according to the HWBot team based on Skylake technology samples. However I'chiliad going to tag this i as a rumor for the time beingness until we tin verify the legitimacy of the entry itself.

Intel 2022-2016 CPU Roadmap Skylake Broadwell Braswell According to various reports Skylake will make it sometime in the second one-half of next year on both the mobile and the desktop infinite. Skylake represents the tock in Intel'south long term tick tock cadence. A tock represents a focus on the CPU architecture while the tick represents a dice shrink and a greater GPU operation improvement.

Intel's Skylake Makes a Surprise Appearance in the SiSoft Sandra Database

So without any further delay allow'southward get into the contents of the leak.

Skylake SiSoft Sandra Entry From the entry we tin can deduct that the CPU in question is a quadcore viii thread processor with a clock speed of 2.3Ghz. 2.3Ghz likely refers to the base clock speed rather than the boost clock speed. As this is an engineering sample depression clock speeds are somewhat expected.

Moving down the entry we can besides see that this CPU has 23 graphics compute units, that's slightly up from 20 units on desktop Haswell. Still without extensive knowledge of the new GPU architecture nosotros tin can't actually compare the IGP compute units of both Skylake and Haswell directly. 23 is also an odd number, suggesting that the processor might actually have some units disabled for testing purposes.

The GPU score is most 30% behind the current Hard disk 4600 graphics on desktop Haswell parts. However the score is achieved with a significantly lower clock speed (300mhz vs 1050mhz). Again nosotros can't really compare the two architectures in an apples to apples fashion because we simply don't know how high Intel can clock the integrated GPU in Skylake. But if we assume that Intel can achieve like GPU clock speeds on Skylake. And so the integrated graphics in Skylake should terminate upward significantly faster, roughly 2 and half times faster.

The CPU arithmetic score is actually quite adept, almost matching the i7 4810MQ which has a base clock of 2.8Ghz. Suggesting that intel volition likely innovate worthwhile IPC improvements of roughly twenty% with Skylake over Haswell.

It's also worthy of note that we institute several other Skylake graphics entries in the database. Some with 23CUs and some with 24CUs. Still all of them shared the same 300mhz clock speed. Nosotros're hoping to run across more than entries surface in the future so we tin have a broader set up of data to compare.