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Intel Inside – Amazing VR Outside

By on Sep 2, 2016 in News | 0 comments

Intel Inside. Amazing VR Outside.

PLAY. STREAM. CREATE.

The latest Intel® 6th Generation Intel® Core™ Desktop processor family brings the perfect processor to build the ultimate gaming rig on the market! For users who want to game and stream at the same time, edit videos and photos and immerse themselves in the latest VR technology Intel® has it covered.

Offering the next level in performance, the flagship desktop Intel® Core™ i7-6700K desktop processor has a quad-core base frequency of 4GHz, 8MB of cache memory and support for up to 64GB in DDR4 RAM memory. Additionally, it is unlocked so that users can squeeze every last bit of performance out of it.

RESPONSIVE PERFORMANCE

The new architecture and design of the 6th Gen Intel® Core™ desktop processors deliver:

A new full range base-clock settings that provide more granularity for overclocking your platform. This is possible with the new unlocked 6th Gen Intel® Core™ desktop processors i7-6700K and i5-6600K and the Intel® Z170 chipset that also allows you to tune key aspects of your system including cores, power and memory.

Support for DDR4 RAM memory technology in mainstream platforms, allowing systems to have up to 64GB of memory and higher transfer speeds at lower power when compared to DDR3 (DDR4 speed 2133 MT/s at 1.2V vs DDR3 speed 1600 MT/s at 1.5).

6th Gen Intel® Core™ i7 and Core™ i5 desktop processors come with Intel® Turbo Boost 2.0 Technology which gives you that extra burst of performance.

Intel® Hyper-Threading Technology allows each processor core to work on two tasks at the same time, improving multitasking, speeding up the workflow, and accomplishing more in less time. With the Intel® Core™ i7 desktop processor, you can have up to 8 simultaneous threads.

PLAY.CREATE AND STREAM

Stunning Visuals
Videos come to life in Ultra HD 4K so users can

enjoy amazing and vibrant multimedia experiences on Ultra HD and 4K displays (up to 4096×2304 resolution).

To deliver this experience, Intel® Core™ i7-6700K and i5-6600K desktop processors incorporate support for HEVC, VP8 and VP9. Intel® Quick Sync Video technology accelerates most video capabilities, allowing users to create and share in real-time and multi-task without interruption. 6th Gen Intel® Core™ i7 and Core™ i5 desktop processors support graphics programmability features such as OpenCL 2.0 so programmers can easily take advantage of the graphics compute capabilities.

With native support for the new DirectX 125 API, the 6th Gen Intel® Core™ desktop processors can provide a better experience for gaming and graphics that take advantage of DirectX 12.