More details will probably require the GT4e version with three times more shaders and 128 MB eDRAM that is expected for 2016. This means you can play many current titles smoothly if you can live with lower resolutions and settings. Even though this only translates to a performance advantage of 5% over the newer HD Graphics 5600, the HD Graphics 530 manages a reasonable performance on par with a dedicated Nvidia GeForce 920M. The resulting performance gains are actually pretty decent and are somewhere between 25 - 30% compared to the HD Graphics 4600 – with some outliers in both directions. Thanks to several design optimizations, performance and power efficiency are supposed to be once again improved, and the graphics unit also benefits from the new support for DDR4 memory. The GT2 version of the tested quad-core chips with the designation HD Graphics 530 is therefore the second smallest configuration of the GPU and is the successor of the HD Graphics 4600 (20 EUs, Intel Gen7.5, Haswell) as well as HD Graphics 5600 (24 EUs, Intel Gen8, Broadwell). The often questionable performance gains of the fastest Core i7 models that were throttled by their TDP limit should be much bigger with Skylake – particularly for the top model i7-6920HQ. This means that the specified Turbo Boost can be maintained even under maximum load, which was not the case for many Haswell chips.
Still, the performance differences are usually very small, so users will have a hard time noticing a difference between a fast Haswell, Broadwell and Skylake quad-core.īy the way, the defensive clocks of the Skylake chips also have advantages: Combined with the advanced 14 nm manufacturing process, you get a pretty low power consumption, so both the Core i7-6700HQ as well as the i7-6820HK do not reach their TDP limit of 45 Watts when you only stress the CPU. The Broadwell Core i7-5700HQ quad-core is just ahead in multi-core scenarios thanks to the 300 MHz higher Turbo for four active cores, while the 4.0 GHz i7-4940MX dominates the single-thread tests. That the Core i7-6820HK still is not at the top of all the rankings is a result of the comparatively low clocks that we already mentioned. On average, Skylake is around 10% faster than the old Haswell architecture and still around 5% faster than the Broadwell predecessor in all benchmarks when the chips are running at the same frequency.
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