Intel Core i7-6700K Skylake Processor Review

PCMark 8

We ran the PCMark 8 Home benchmark, which includes workloads that reflect common tasks for a typical home user. These workloads have low computational requirements making PCMark 8 Home suitable for testing the performance of low-cost tablets, notebooks and desktops. Home includes workloads for web browsing, writing, gaming, photo editing, and video chat. The results are combined to give a PCMark 8 Home score for your system.

PCMark 8 Home Accelerated Test Results:

	G3285	A8-7600	A10-7800	4770K	4790K	5775C	6700K
Overall Score	2555	3181	3322	3449	3597	4462	4032
Web Browsing – JunglePin	0.315s	0.353s	0.351s	0.310s	0.310s	0.305s	0.310s
Web Browsing – Amazonia	0.134s	0.139s	0.139s	0.134s	0.134s	0.133s	0.134s
Writing	3.95s	4.79s	4.72s	3.46s	3.14s	4.40s	3.10s
Photo Editing V2	0.704s	0.331s	0.304s	0.350s	.321s	0.128s	0.236s
Video Chat Playback	30 fps	30 fps	30 fps	30 fps	30 fps	30 fps	30 fps
Video Chat Encoding	133.3ms	49.7ms	37.7ms	48.0ms	43.0ms	37.0ms	42.0ms
Casual Gaming	23.0 fps	34.8 fps	35.1 fps	35.9 fps	36.4 fps	67.1 fps	51.5 fps

Benchmark Results: The Intel Core i7-6700K has an overall score of 4,032 in the PCMark 8 Home Accelerated benchmark. The Intel Core i7-5775C had an overall score of 4,462 thanks to big performance leads due to the integrated graphics solutions used on each processor. If you look closely at the seven work traces, you’ll see 5775C had a higher overall score due to the casual gaming benchmark and Photo Editing V2 test.