The Skylake Y Series, officially branded as Intel Core M, operates with a 4.5-watt TDP (thermal design profile) and is meant for low-power tablets and hybrids. The mobile CPUs are divided into three distinct series based on power consumption: Y, U and H.
The new processors will be branded either as Core M or as Intel 6th Generation Core series. With the exception of the low-cost Atom chips for tablets and phones, all of Intel's mainstream CPUs will be based on Skylake. Better still, the new laptop achieved three times the battery life when playing an HD video. The new system achieved 2.5 times quicker performance on the SySmark 2014 benchmark, which measures overall speed, and 30 times faster graphics on 3DMark Cloud Gate Gfx, a graphics test. Intel benchmarked a laptop with a Skylake-powered Intel Core i5-6200U against a system with a Core i5-520UM, which came out in 2010. According to Intel, more than 1 billion PCs are three years old or older, and more than 500 million PCs currently in use are from 2010 or prior. Skylake does promise better overall performance, graphics prowess and battery life than its predecessors, but you really notice the improvements when you compare against the older computers that most people have. If you bought a new computer within the past year or two, you probably aren't going to replace it just to get the iterative performance benefits of Skylake over 2015's Broadwell or 2013's Haswell platforms. However, notebook vendors may be able to differentiate their products by providing better cooling, which will allow users to push the chips even higher.
Why not just ship all notebooks overclocked to the max? Because of subtle manufacturing differences, two copies of the same model processor may have different maximum overclocked speeds. During a brief demo, the chipmaker turned a laptop with the chip up to 4.2 GHz, using a software utility. Now, with Skylake, Intel is releasing an overclockable Core i7 processor for laptops, the Core i7-6820HK, which is designed to run at up to 3.2 GHz in turbo mode, but can be turned up way beyond that. Overclockable Laptopsįor many years, desktop PC enthusiasts have been able to overclock their CPUs, pushing them to higher speeds than they are specced for, by tweaking some settings. MORE: Laptops With the Longest Battery Life 3. The new GPUs can also drive up to three distinct 4K monitors at once, allowing for quite a productivity setup. Intel also says that its current-generation Intel 500 series graphics chips are fast enough to beat more than 80 percent of discrete graphics cards on the market, making the Intel chips good enough for people who aren't hardcore gamers.
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