Interesting Facts Regarding Intel Skylake

Skylake Intel processor-Each year, Intel has always presenting the latest generation of Intel processors. And the past five years, Intel's focus on making the latest technology processor with integrated processor therein. They started passing generation Nehalem and Westmare as the first to introduce the latest processor technology with the naming of the Core-i series processors and integrated.

The processor technology has not been too opimal. New, in the second generation, the Intel Sandy Bridge processors made by Intel began to show his strength. Sandy Bridge's success continued when Ivy Birdge. Ivy Bridge technology is a processor with 22nm fabrication technology and presents a better performance and more economical. Integrated graphics processor capability is also very nice. Continuation Ivy Bridge followed by a fourth-generation Haswell. At the fifth generation, Intel introduced Broadwell, technology processors made with 14nm fabrication.

In 2015, Intel's sixth-generation, namely Skylake. This processor technology was introduced in 2014 and ready to be launched in 2015. Intel Skylake still be using 14nm fabrication technology but of course with a better performance than ever before. In fact, many who call that Intel Skylake will be the processor with the ability above average.

How exactly about Intel Skylake this? Here I present the interesting things about Intel Skylake

GPU performance increase of up to 50%

Integrated graphics in Skylake, the latest Intel HD Graphic present 50% better performance than the integrated GPU is embedded on the processor Broadwell. Because the GPU inside made with technology GT4e which is the successor of GT3e, graphics technology found in the Intel Broadwell. The embed 72 executions unit and 128MB of eDRAM memory on the Intel HD Graphics Skylake also a major reason why the performance is increased significantly compared to the Intel HD Graphic on Broadwell.

Lower power consumption

It's a habit, if the latest Intel processor performance must be increased but decreased power. It also happened on Intel Skylake. Power consumption SoC (System on Chip) on Intel Skylake decreased to 60% compared to the previous. In addition, TDP processor also slightly lower, ie 45W. Compare with Intel Broadwell which consume 47W TDP. Indeed decline slightly but significantly.

The use of new chipsets

Previously, Intel Broadwell can be used on a motherboard with a chipset that supports Haswell. Well, for this Skylake another story. Motherboard chipset to Broadwell could not be used for Intel processors Skylake. Because the Intel Skylake uses a different socket, the LGA1151. While Broadwell and Haswell uses the same socket, LGA1150. It is also certainly affects the chipset used. Chipset H81, Q85, B85, Q87, H87, Z87, H97 and Z97 is not used anymore. Series chipset will be replaced with H110, Q150, B150, Q170, H170, and Z170.

Support the latest technology

Chipset for Intel Skylake will have full support for the number of USB 3.0 ports for more. Not only that, Skylake Intel chipset will also support SATA PCIe lanes and more. Of course, Intel chipset Skylake also optimized to support overclocking the processor. However, the multiplier unlocked Intel processors supported by the new Skylake Z170 chipset for overclocking purposes

DDR4 Support

There are rumors leaked specs strongest of the Intel Skylake upscale, Intel Core i7 6700K and Core i5 6600K. Both processors will use Intel HD Grpahic 5000series with a TDP of 95 Watt. Series Core i7 6700K will carry a 4 core processor with 8 trheads with a speed of 4 GHz and turbo boost 4,2GHz clock. While the Core i5 6600K carrying four cores with 4 threads speed 3.5 GHz and turbo boost 3.5 / 3.9 Ghz. Both of these processors are processors that support unlocked and fully supports DDR4 and PCI Express 4.0.

Processor with 28 cores

Skylake Intel will have processors with 28 core therein. Of course these things are quite surprising. Processor with 28 cores will be named Intel Xeon Skylake Purley series X5 and X7. From the series unfolds, it is clear that this processor is a specialized processor used for server computers and large enterprises. The processor itself is believed to have the ability to 5 times faster.

Such is a brief description of Intel Skylake. Of the exposure, it appears that Intel Skylake will be Intel processors are quite promising. Keep in mind, after Intel Skylake present, Intel will present abrikasi processors with 10nm technology, namely Cannonlake.