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Intel's Core i5 6500 Shines As a $199 Skylake Processor, Works With Linux (phoronix.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Intel has begun releasing more "Skylake" processors that are cheaper than the launch SKUs of the i5-6600K and i7-6700K. One of the new processors that is now widely available is the Core i5 6500 and it costs just $199 USD — that puts it just a few dollars more than the AMD FX-8370 and significantly less than the higher-end Skylake and Haswell CPUs. At least with Ubuntu Linux, the Core i5 6500 is showing competitive performance that for some workloads puts it faster than Core i7 Haswell/Broadwell processors and much faster than any AMD processors. The Intel Skylake CPUs are fully supported under Linux but the caveat is needing the very latest kernel otherwise there's no graphics acceleration or sound support.
It's much faster in a few tests, a little faster in quite a lot more, slower in some and much slower in others. How is that "much faster"?
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You can stop the current performance is good enough crap because as soon as Intel can figure out a faster processor you will be singing Intel's praises for producing a faster processor.
Intel has hit a wall. Period. They can't do 10nm with their current fabrication process. They'll have to follow IBM if then want to go smaller. They are unwilling to do 4Ghz Quads because they consume energy and produce heat and they won't bother with 8 cores for the same reasons. That's why you have piddly 3 GHz processors that can be "over-clocked." Just fucking put out a damn processor that can do 4GHz and be done with it because frankly people are looking for 5GHz!
Just remember the cardinal rule which is if you don't know which compiler they used the test is worthless as Intel to this day uses the Cripple code in their compiler and pays benchmark companies to use it with predictable results. You let ME write the conditions on the compiler I can make a Sempron from 03 beat the latest i7, don't make the test worth a fuck.
If you want to see how the chip REALLY stacks up without cripple code? Just look at these Linux benchmarks and surprise! Remove the cripple code and you have The FX8 competing with i5 and i7 and the A10 beating i5...wow, isn't it amazing how much just not rigging the fucking benchmark does for the scores? Its a fricking miracle.
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