Skylake
One of the most visited parts of the AnandTech website is our benchmark database, Bench. Over the last decade we've placed as much benchmark data as we can in there for every sample we can get our hands on. As the CPU editor, one of my duties is to maintain the CPU part of Bench, making sure the benchmarks are relevant and the newest components are tested. Today we are announcing our latest major Bench refresh with our new Benchmark suite, and some very lofty goals.
Examining Intel's New Speed Shift Tech on Skylake: More Responsive Processors
Modern computer processors are constantly changing their operating frequency (and voltage) depending on workload. For Intel processors, this is often handled by the operating system which will request a...
54 by Brett Howse on 11/6/2015
The Microsoft Surface Book First Look
Today is the official launch day for not only Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4, but also the Surface Book which was announced back at the Microsoft Windows 10 Devices event...
101 by Brett Howse on 10/21/2015
The Microsoft Surface Pro 4 Review: Raising The Bar
Microsoft moved the yardsticks with the Surface Pro 3, a surprise hit after multiple generations of Surface Pro. With the Surface Pro 4, they look to take what worked...
175 by Brett Howse on 10/21/2015
The ASUS Z170-A Motherboard Review: The $165 Focal Point
In the world of technology, you could speculate if there is ever a golden age, or a renaissance. All the time we expect technology to grow and improve, being...
30 by Ian Cutress on 10/20/2015
The Lenovo Yoga 900 Series Launched: The ‘Thinnest’ Core Laptop and a 27-inch Portable All-In-One
Lenovo’s Yoga line has been consistently at the forefront of attempting to define exactly what a combination clamshell laptop ‘that’s also a sort of tablet’ should be. Over the...
50 by Ian Cutress on 10/20/2015_carousel.jpg)
More Greenlow Motherboards Announced: ASRock Rack’s C230 Series
On the back of Intel’s muted launch for the Xeon E3-1200 v5 platform, the server based business units from normal motherboards consumer facing companies are announcing their C230 series...
17 by Ian Cutress on 10/20/2015
Skylake Xeon Motherboards: GIGABYTE’s C230 Series Announced
With the new E3-1200 v5 processors announced today we also get a new series of workstation/server motherboards under the C230 series. Aside from standard workstation and Xeon markets that...
13 by Ian Cutress on 10/19/2015
Intel Launches ‘Greenlow’: C236 Chipset and Skylake E3-1200 v5 Xeons
One of the recent notable aspects about the Xeon E3 family was the lack of a significant presence with Intel’s Broadwell architecture. A handful of them were released under...
31 by Ian Cutress on 10/19/2015
ASUS Announces the Z170-based Maximus VIII Extreme ROG Motherboard
We caught a glimpse of it very briefly in our motherboard overview at the time that Intel launched its 6-th Generation Skylake processors, but at the end of last...
18 by Ian Cutress on 10/19/2015
Dell XPS Lineup Is Reinvigorated With Skylake On The New XPS 12, XPS 13, And XPS 15
Dell really put their stamp on the 2015 Ultrabook lineup this year with the Dell XPS 13 with its amazing Infinity Display. They packed a 13.3-inch display into a...
99 by Brett Howse on 10/8/2015
Software Guard Extensions on Specific Skylake CPUs Only
Through the staggered release of Intel’s 6th Generation Core processors, known as Skylake, we reported in our architecture deep dive that Intel would be introducing a raft of known...
19 by Ian Cutress on 10/5/2015
NVIDIA Announces Maxwell-Based Quadro M Mobile Series
By and large we erroneously tend to think of NVIDIA’s Quadro family of video cards as desktop video cards. While NVIDA has offered mobile Quadro cards for nearly a...
7 by Ryan Smith on 10/1/2015
The MSI Z170A Gaming M7 Review: The Step Up to Skylake
June, July and August in 2015 have all been a roller coaster of desktop and processor news. Intel officially launched the Broadwell processors at Computex, with NVIDIA also entering...
56 by Ian Cutress on 9/21/2015
Updates to Skylake Discrete Graphics Performance: PCIe Optimizations Incoming
In our initial review of the two 6th Generation Intel Skylake-K processors launched on August 5th, the i7-6700K and the i5-6600K, our comparative analysis to the previous generations of...
37 by Ian Cutress on 9/8/2015
Lenovo Launches Ideapad Y700 Touch Gaming Laptop, Y700 And Y900 Gaming Desktops, And Accessories
Lenovo has been busy at IFA 2015. They refreshed their consumer PC lineup, announced some ThinkPads, and are now announcing some updates to their gaming lineup. The Lenovo Y...
5 by Brett Howse on 9/2/2015
ASUS Refreshes ROG Laptops With G752 and Liquid Cooled GX700 Series
Today at IFA ASUS is announcing some of its fall laptop lineup. As with the other vendors, they have been waiting on Windows 10 which launched at the end...
28 by Brett Howse on 9/2/2015
Lenovo Refreshes Ideapad Lineup With Windows 10, Skylake, and Carrizo
This week is the IFA conference, and while traditionally a mobile focused show, Microsoft’s recent launch of Windows 10 coupled with Intel’s launch of the new 6th generation Skylake...
26 by Brett Howse on 9/2/2015
The Intel Skylake Mobile and Desktop Launch, with Architecture Analysis
Intel’s 6th Generation of its Core product line, Skylake, is officially launching today. We previously saw the performance of the two high end Skylake-K 91W processors, but that was...
173 by Ian Cutress on 9/1/2015
The AnandTech Podcast: Episode 35 - Windows 10 and Skylake
AnandTech Podcast #35: The summer season has been busier than usual. Microsoft released Windows 10, it’s latest operating system, as a free upgrade to current Windows 7 and Windows...
12 by Ian Cutress on 8/31/2015
The Intel Skylake i7-6700K Overclocking Performance Mini-Test to 4.8 GHz
At the time of our Skylake review of both the i7-6700K and the i5-6600K, due to the infancy of the platform and other constraints, we were unable to probe...
107 by Ian Cutress on 8/28/2015
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