Skylake performance
With more than half of the PCs in the world more now five years or older, Intel says that this is the time to upgrade to a new desktop, laptop or tablet. At IFA 2015, Intel officially took the wraps off of its sixth generation processor, known as Skylake, and the company is packing in the performance to tempt owners of older laptops to upgrade.
So how does Skylake compare to CPUs running on systems from five years ago?
“Skylake delivers 2.5 times faster compute performance, 30 times better graphics and three times the battery life,” said Kirk Skaugen, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Intel’s Client Computing Group.
Compared to laptops from just five years ago, Skylake will have four times faster wake-up times, said Navin Shenoy, Intel Corporate VP and General Manager of Mobility Client Platforms.
There are over a billion PCs that are over three years old, and that’s the market that Skaugen and his team are targeting with Skylake.
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On mobile, Skylake is a highly scalable architecture, said Schlomit Weiss, VP of Intel’s Platform Engineering Group. The architecture can work on 4.5W on tablets running Core M processors to 45W on …read more
Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components