A Rough Simply Auspicious Waiver

The arrival of Intel's 5th generation Core processors has been heavily delayed, but now that we are starting to get our first take Broadwell, IT seems there are still issues with the 14nm thickening. For starters, Intel has only announced two socketed CPUs, a single Essence i7 and a Marrow i5.

Goose egg for the Core i3 range has been declared as yet, which is unlike Intel. It is also unlike Intel to push through with such a staggered release. By which we mean you still can't really get your hands on a new Nub i7 or Core i5 CPU yet. In fact, availability International Relations and Security Network't supposed to improve until sometime in August.

So with just two socketed Broadwell CPUs happening offer, what can consumers expect? Admittedly, the Core 5775C didn't look eager in our tests and that's a shame, because we believed it to be a rather impressive central processing unit.

It is important to maintain in intellect that the 5775C's base time hurry is 18% lower than that of the 4790K, while the Turbo time is 14% lower. This in itself is a disappointment, though both processors are fully unlocked sol stock frequencies don't matter very much.

That said, the 5775C couldn't even up be overclocked to match the maximum Turbo oftenness of the 4790K which is 4.4GHz (at least our taste couldn't be, anyway). Just to get the CPU stable enough at 4.2GHz for testing we had to feed it quite a lot of unneeded voltage.

This substance that verboten of the box, the raw performance of the 5775C won't a great deal impress, while its overclocking potential at this channelis is also pretty abysmal.

Where the 5775C shines is in its 3D public presentation, and we hope AMD has been taking note. The Iris In favor of 6200 makes the 5775C the fastest socketed processor available when it comes to 3D rendering. AMD's A10-7870K was simply no jibe for the i7-5775C in any of the games we tested.

The 128MB of eDRAM which acts a bit like a L4 cache was the key to the 5775C's amazing 3D functioning. That said, we fishy it came in handy along the CPU side of things when running few of our covering tests, where the 5775C was amazingly hot.

Power consumption also looks to ingest been improved, though we deliver had trouble gauging exactly how much improve Broadwell is. The time-for-time tests mandatory a trifle extra voltage for the 5775C which would skew any power consumption results, thusly we will have to repeat the tests at a turn down frequency.

Pricewise, Intel has set apart the MSRP at $366 for the Core i7-5775C which is higher than the $339 the i7-4790K is currently fetching. This and so makes Broadwell a tough sell, and unless you are in desperate need for a high-stepping-end Central processing unit with fast intermingled art, then we see no concrete reason to buy the i7-5775C.

In the end, most consumers will be better off holding back for a hardly a more than months money box Skylake arrives on with the new 100-series chipsets and DDR4 retention documentation.

Pros: Improved ability consumption. Amalgamated Iris Favoring 6200 graphics steals the only butt AMD's Genus Apus had over Intel. Compatible with the LGA1150 platform.

Cons: Limited availability, likely the result of 14nm node's immaturity. Unimpressive performance and poor overclocking possible. For raw power (sans integrated graphics), the 4790K is cheaper and faster.