Intel Skylake is the successor to the Intel® Broadwell processor.
It is a microarchitecture redesign using an already existing process
technology and it will be branded as Intel 6th Gen Core. Like Broadwell,
Skylake is available in four variants with suffixes SKL-Y, SKL-H,
and SKL-U.
The Skylake also includes
Core i7, i5, i3, Pentium and Celeron processors.
Processor performance
features
The following table illustrates the
performance available on each Skylake.
Table 1. Performance
featuresThe following table illustrates the performance
available on each Skylake.
Feature
Feature description
SKL-Y
SKL-U
SKL-H
General Features
Cores
Dual Core
Dual Core
Dual Core
CPU/Memory/Graphic Overclocking
No
No
Yes
Intel Extreme Tuning Utility
No
No
Yes
Intel Hyper-Threading Technology
Yes
Yes
Yes
Intel Smart Cache Technology with last level cache
(LLC) sharing between Processor and GFx cores
Yes
Yes
Yes
Intel Smart Sound Technology
Yes
Yes
Yes
Intel Turbo Boost Technology 2.0
Yes
Yes
Yes
Last Level Cache (LLC)
Up to 4M
Up to 4M
Up to 4M
Voltage Optimizer
Yes
TBD
TBD
Display
3 Independent Display Support
Yes
Yes
Yes
HDMI 2.0 Display @60Hz
3840x2160
3840x2160
3840x2160
DP/eDP Display @60Hz
3840x2160
4096x2304
4096x2304
eDP 1.3, support for MPO, NV12
Yes
Yes
Yes
Media
Intel Built-In Visuals
Yes
Yes
Yes
Compute
OpenCL 2.0
Yes
No
yes
Platform Hardware
14nm process
Yes
Yes
Yes
16PCIe Graphic lanes (configurable as 1x16 or 2x8
or 1x8+2x4)
No
No
Yes
PCIe Gen3.0 support
No
No
Yes
Switchable graphics (muxless solution)
No
Yes
Yes
Memory
Memory Type
LPDDR3
DDR3L
LPDDR3
DDR3L
DDR4
LPDDR3
DDR3L
DDR4
Connector / Memory Down
Memory down
SODIMM
SODIMM
Speed
1866MT/s for LPDDR3
1600MT/s for DDR3L
1866MT/s for LPDDR3
1600MT/s for DDR3L
2133MT/s for DDR4
1866MT/s for LPDDR3
1600MT/s for DDR3L
2133MT/s for DDR4
Max Capacity
LPDDR3–16 GB
DDR3L-4 GB
DDR3L-16 GB
LPDDR3–16 GB
DDR4=32 GB
DDR3L-16 GB
LPDDR3–16 GB
DDR4=32 GB
OS Support
Windows 10 (64-bit)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows 7 (64-bit / 32bit)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Linux (kernel and associated modules)
Yes
Yes
Yes
Chrome
Yes
Yes
No
Android
No
No
No
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