Haswell vs. Skylake-S: i7 4790K vs i7 6700K [Pugetsystems]

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Haswell vs. Skylake-S: i7 4790K vs i7 6700K [Pugetsystems]

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Written on August 5, 2015 ....

but still it's very actual today.
In this article we want to go over the new Core i7 6700K CPU and look at how it is different from the Core i7 4790K. To do this, we will first examine the specifications of Haswell and Skylake-S CPUs in general then run a wide variety of benchmarks to find out what applications benefit from the move to DDR4 RAM and the other architecture changes.

Haswell vs. Skylake-S: i7 4790K vs i7 6700K (pugetsystems.com)
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