Intel Core i5 Skylake Ubuntu Linux My current setup vs i6-6600K. i5-6600K Preview: Processor: Intel Core i5-6600K @ 3.50GHz (4 Cores), Motherboard: MSI Z170A GAMING PRO (MS-7984) v1.0, Chipset: Intel Sky Lake /DRAM, Memory: 15360MB, Disk: 256GB TS256GSSD370S, Graphics: Intel Sky Lake (1150MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC1150, Monitor: DELL P2210H, Network: Intel Connection OS: Ubuntu 15.04, Kernel: 4.2.0-999-generic (x86_64) 20150814, Desktop: Unity 7.3.2, Display Server: X Server 1.17.1, Display Driver: intel 2.99.917, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.5.2, Compiler: GCC 4.9.2, File-System: ext4, Screen Resolution: 1920x1080 i7-2630QM Notebook Compared: Processor: Intel Core i7-2630QM @ 2.90GHz (8 Cores), Motherboard: ASUS K73SV v1.0, Chipset: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family DRAM, Memory: 6144MB, Disk: 128GB SAMSUNG SSD 830 + 750GB Seagate ST9750423AS, Graphics: Intel 2nd Generation Core Family IGP (1100MHz), Audio: Realtek ALC269VB, Network: Qualcomm Atheros AR8151 v2.0 Gigabit + Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless OS: Arch Linux, Kernel: 4.1.5-1-ck (x86_64), Desktop: Xfce 4.12, OpenGL: 3.3 Mesa 10.6.4, Compiler: GCC 5.2.0 + Clang 3.6.2, File-System: f2fs, Screen Resolution: 1600x900 OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better i5-6600K Preview ............ 58.33 |================= i7-2630QM Notebook Compared . 138.60 |========================================= OpenArena 0.8.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Total Frame Time Milliseconds < Lower Is Better i5-6600K Preview ............ MIN: 11.0 AVG: 17.0 MAX: 49.0 i7-2630QM Notebook Compared . MIN: 2.0 AVG: 7.2 MAX: 20.0 Tesseract 2014-05-12 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better i5-6600K Preview ............ 54.93 |========================================== i7-2630QM Notebook Compared . 28.64 |====================== Xonotic 0.8 Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Effects Quality: Ultra Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better i5-6600K Preview ............ 73.64 |========================================== i7-2630QM Notebook Compared . 36.36 |===================== GpuTest 0.7.0 Test: Furmark - Resolution: 1920 x 1080 - Mode: Fullscreen Points > Higher Is Better i5-6600K Preview ............ 670 |============================================ i7-2630QM Notebook Compared . 297 |==================== FFTW 3.3.4 Build: Float + SSE - Size: 1D FFT Size 4096 Mflops > Higher Is Better i5-6600K Preview ............ 27191 |========================================== i7-2630QM Notebook Compared . 13860 |===================== Gcrypt Library 1.4.4 CAMELLIA256-ECB Cipher Microseconds < Lower Is Better i5-6600K Preview . 1623 |====================================================== John The Ripper 1.8.0 Test: Blowfish Real C/S > Higher Is Better i5-6600K Preview ............ 4816 |=========================================== i7-2630QM Notebook Compared . 3330 |============================== x264 2014-08-30 H.264 Video Encoding Frames Per Second > Higher Is Better i5-6600K Preview ............ 171.28 |========================================= i7-2630QM Notebook Compared . 110.28 |========================== GraphicsMagick 1.3.19 Operation: Resizing Iterations Per Minute > Higher Is Better i5-6600K Preview ............ 203 |============================================ i7-2630QM Notebook Compared . 130 |============================ Timed Apache Compilation 2.4.7 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better i5-6600K Preview ............ 28.45 |=========================== i5-6600K Preview ............ 28.26 |=========================== i7-2630QM Notebook Compared . 44.67 |========================================== Timed Linux Kernel Compilation 3.18-rc6 Time To Compile Seconds < Lower Is Better i5-6600K Preview ............ 106.05 |====================== i7-2630QM Notebook Compared . 196.23 |========================================= C-Ray 1.1 Total Time Seconds < Lower Is Better i5-6600K Preview ............ 19.83 |=================== i7-2630QM Notebook Compared . 43.22 |========================================== FLAC Audio Encoding 1.3.1 WAV To FLAC Seconds < Lower Is Better i5-6600K Preview ............ 5.08 |===================== i7-2630QM Notebook Compared . 10.36 |========================================== LAME MP3 Encoding 3.99.3 WAV To MP3 Seconds < Lower Is Better i5-6600K Preview ............ 10.66 |========================== i7-2630QM Notebook Compared . 17.34 |========================================== FFmpeg 2.6.2 H.264 HD To NTSC DV Seconds < Lower Is Better i5-6600K Preview ............ 9.94 |============================ i7-2630QM Notebook Compared . 15.03 |========================================== OpenSSL 1.0.1g RSA 4096-bit Performance Signs Per Second > Higher Is Better i5-6600K Preview ............ 664.43 |========================================= i5-6600K Preview ............ 662.87 |========================================= i7-2630QM Notebook Compared . 354.73 |====================== PostgreSQL pgbench 9.4.3 Scaling: Mostly RAM - Test: Heavy Contention - Mode: Read Write TPS > Higher Is Better i5-6600K Preview ............ 5025.19 |======================================== i7-2630QM Notebook Compared . 2432.34 |=================== Redis 3.0.1 Test: SET Requests Per Second > Higher Is Better i5-6600K Preview ............ 2254300.67 |===================================== i7-2630QM Notebook Compared . 1195283.29 |====================