Performance - CPU-Z

CPU-Z Internal Benchmark

CPU-Z was recently updated with a fairly quick to run, yet seriously proper benchmark. I decided to include the results as it offers something you can easily replicate and try at home. Next to that, it actually is a pretty nice performance measurement to test RAW CPU performance, performance is measured both as per core and multi-threaded core performance. It offers a fast and easy manner in which to quickly view single threaded and multi-threaded SMT performance. Give it a try yourself, it is easy to use. Here are some numbers, we'll build up and update more results over time.

The current result sets are still based on CPU-Z benchmark 1.8. 

Above, you can see IPC performance. All processors listed are clocked at 4200 MHz. The Skylake architecture is definitely offering slightly more perf over the previous Broadwell architecture. We're talking 3 to 4% here. Normal clocked results then:

Once you start to accumulate more cores the relative perf will jump up fast, of course. Unfortunately not all software makes use of many cores/threads, including games, hence per core perf matters more opposed to having, say, eight cores over a quad-core processor.