http://liliputing.com/2015/08/intel-core-m-skylake-details-start-to-emerge.htmlIntel Core M and Core Y Skylake details start to emergeCore M3-6Y30: 900 MHz base speed with 2.2 GHz Turbo speed and 850 MHz GPU boost speed (thermal throttles 2.4 times)
Core M5-6Y54: 1.1 GHz base speed with 2.7 GHz Turbo speed and 900 MHz GPU boost speed (thermal throttles 2.4 times)
Core M5-6Y57: 1.1 GHz base speed with 2.8 GHz Turbo speed and 900 MHz GPU boost speed (thermal throttles 2.5 times)
Core M7-6Y75: 1.2 GHz base speed with 3.1 GHz Turbo speed and 1 GHz GPU boost speed (thermal throttles 2.6 times)
OK, time to talk about Skylake again, since Intel has abandoned their abandonment of all the previous announced configurations/roadmaps yet again and is now coming out with a brand new Skylake roadmap one more time yet again, except this time it is couched in these NEW somewhat weasel worded terms.
"While they all have a thermal design power rating of 4.5 watts, Intel says they have a 3 watt “scenario design power,” which means they’ll typically use less than 4.5 watts. But they can also run at up to 7 watts for a performance boost."Wow, that sounds like a bunch of malarky, doesn't it? What does it really mean ????Turbo rating is a somewhat fictional advertising number that a dead cold chip could be goosed to TEMPORARILY (a few 10s of seconds) if you goosed it dead cold right off the bat when you first powered it up.
Thermal power rating is the upper limit that you can depend on a GOOD cooling system to hold it together or else the chip becomes toast shortly. You see this rating ONCE at the point thermal throttling kicks in and never see it again as you get your speed throttled down in stages to the point you simply can't get that hot again. Slow, but safe -- that's you now.
Intel hates warranty returns, you know .....
Base speed is where you should expect a fully warmed up, completely throttled back through the stages, properly heat sinked chip to thermal throttle itself down to in normal real world uses. Push it up past this and ill things begin to happen, so Intel doesn't want you to go there.
"Scenario design power" is a meatball averaged watt number that a designer should use to plan his best case battery usage and to plan his best case battery size, then he should up-size it 30% if he has any sense. Since the chipset is constantly all over the place (depending on task, temperature, time since started and the rest of the background load on the system) you really can't plan using any single number beyond this fudgy scenario design power number as everything is all in flux all the time. YOU NEED TO TEST YOUR PRODUCT and pick a battery size that really does the job for your customers.
GPU boost is saying that the GPU can't really run at this speed except when it is dead cold, so it too will thermal throttle down to a lesser speed just like the CPU does. Since Intel makes such a big thing about their improved GPUs they don't ever actually ever really say what they throttle down to on the GPU as "having better GPUs" is really the only positive thing Intel has going for them at all right now.
So, it's kept a deep dark secret ..... until the tester boys get hold of it.
Before, Intel would have said they were 3 watt chipsets that ran at full (turbo mode) speeds using whatever ghz they ran when first stared up stone cold (which only had a 20 second duration lie since the chipsets thermal throttled to 1/2 to 1/3 of that speed withing 20 seconds or so as they warmed up).
Hey, Intel used to really misrepresent a lot of things like this sort of stuff in the past. They still do, but this new malarky is different, more detailed malarky, a more confusing malarky (improved, even more devious malarky that before).
Intel sells marlarky now, with a thick layer liberally smeared over the tops of their chipsets to increase their sales appeal.
[b]Reality is that Skylake has not been a performance improving chipset at all] so far[/b, and so far the ones wrung out thoroughly by the tester magazines haven all panned out as slightly slower and not having any great energy saving to any real degree much at all either. A little bit under certain circumstances, but not a lot. They do have 25% - 30% better graphics this time around, though. This is real. Kinda. Sorta. Depends on how hot the motherboard gets, you know.
Intel is TRYING to mend their misleading marlarky ways some and is giving out better "scenario based" data to the device builders, give them credit for that at least.
However,
Skylake costs a lot more and apart from the GPU has the same overall performance level as the 2 year old cheaper stuff. (I am being charitable, mostly the old stuff is faster).
"If it sucks badly enough, what you need to do is to wrap it up in baloney and then sell the baloney" .... Handbook of Advanced Advertising Techniques.Hmmmmm ...... is baloney better than malarky? Which one smells worse ???
This stuff smells sorta brown and icky to me, so it isn't really baloney which is pink and smells like pig snouts.
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