Intel Skylake Graphics Performance Shows Up - Iris Graphics 540, HD Graphcis 520, HD Graphics 515 Featured on Skylake-Y and Skylake-U CPUs

Intel is readying their Skylake sixth generation microarchitecture which will make employ of new CPU and GPU cores. Launching in August at IDF15, Skylake processors will leverage performance in applications that range from standard work loads to high-end gaming and even fulfill server/workstation demands with professional Xeon parts. While the processors are known for their cadre performance improvements, Intel has gained a huge performance increase in the graphics department with their contempo Iris and Iris Pro graphics core and the same can be expected from the upcoming Skylake processors.

Intel Skylake GPU To Make Big Gains in Graphics Department

The numbers we have compiled today have been provided over at Compubench which lists down three new chips. Nosotros are looking at the Cadre i5-6200U processor with HD Graphics 520, Cadre M3-6Y30 with Hard disk drive graphics 515 and lastly, an unknown processor with Iris Graphics 540. Now we know this in fact that Skylake will become several SKUs which include the Skylake-S (Desktop), Skylake-U (Ultra Low Power), Skylake-Y (Low TDP) and Skylake-H (High Operation Mobility) variants. All of these volition feature several chips aimed towards various tiers based on their pricing, functioning and power consumption.

The graphics chips which we accept today are quite simple in terms of naming scheme equally Intel moves abroad from a 4-digit (Alphanumeric) scheme to a three digit (Numerical) branding. Nosotros still become to see Iris and Iris Pro series branding which denote Intel's meridian contumely in the graphics department that recently disrupted GPU performance records on iGPU (Integrated GPU) level with the Broadwell Iris Pro Graphics 6200 chips. Comparing these fries, we do get some hints at their specifications.

The Core i5-6200U which is powered by the Hard disk drive Graphics 520 iGPU is the successor of the Core i5-5200U that features the Hard disk Graphics 5500 iGPU. Existence a GT2 level Broadwell graphics chip, the Hd Graphics 5200 features 24 execution units, 1300 million transistors and a clock speed ranging from 300 MHz (Base) up to 950 MHz (Boost) clock. The HD Graphics 520 iGPU could besides be a GT2 level cadre with 24 execution units while the more performance heavy GT3e variants featured on faster Core i7 variants will exist integrated with 48 execution units and 64 MB eDRAM LLC (Last Level Cache).

The Cadre M-6Y30 will be powered by the HD Graphics 515 iGPU that is the successor to the Cadre Thou-5Y31 which is office of the Broadwell-Y lineup that launched last year. The Hard disk 5300 featured on the Core M-5Y31 is powered by 24 execution units and a clock speed of 300 MHz (Base) and 900 MHz (Heave) clock speeds. All Broadwell-Y Core M processors are based on the Hd Graphics 5300 core which is the entry level iGPU chip but that will kind of modify with Skylake-Y which will be getting GT1 and GT1.5 fries with 12 and 18 Execution units each that deliver meliorate performance per core unit and faster clocks.

Finally nosotros have the Iris Graphics 540 which is the successor to the Iris Graphics 6100. Note that these are not the Iris Pro variants existence compared which characteristic higher execution units and clock speeds. The current Iris Graphics 6100 core features 48 Execution units, 1900 Million transistors and clock speeds of 300 MHz (base) and 1100 MHz (Heave). The Iris Graphics 540 will characteristic similar corporeality of execution units with faster clocks and a eDRAM cache of 64 MB. A faster GT4e graphics core is also confirmed which will be office of the Iris Pro Graphics 550 with 72 Execution units and 128 MB cache but we don't have any specific results for the chip. The performance of these chips can be seen in the pictures below but exercise notation that they aren't represnetative of final performance nor do they showcase bodily gaming functioning you might expect from the processor it cocky. At that place are notable improvements from these chips which shows Intel did brand some graphics architecture updates on Skylake platform.

Intel Skylake SKU Configurations:

Intel 14nm Skylake Configuration Table - WCCFTech
Variant	SKL-Y (BGA)	SKL-U (BGA)	SKL-H (BGA)	SKL-S (LGA)
Cores Configurations	2	2 / 2	4 / 4	iv / 2 / 4
Graphic Configurations	GT2	GT2 / GT3e	GT2 / GT4e	GT2 / GT2 / GT4e
eDRAM	-	64MB - GT3e	128MB - GT4e	64MB - GT4e
Memory	LPDDR3 1600Mhz	LPDDR3 1600Mhz	DDR4 2133Mhz	DDR3L/DDR3L-RS 1600Mhz, DDR4 2133Mhz
TDP	4W	15-28W	35-45W	35-95W

Source: https://wccftech.com/intel-skylake-graphics-performance-shows-iris-graphics-540-hd-graphcis-520-hd-graphics-515-featured-skylakey-skylakeu-cpus/

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