Recently I took a look at Intel's Broadwell-based 5th Generation Core i7 5775C that proved to be an interesting step out of the gate for the company's first round of 14nm processors. It delivered excellent improvements in per-clock performance and came with what has proven to be Intel's best socketed integrated graphics solution to date, the Iris Pro 6200 graphics processor. Now we get to take a look at Intel's Skylake 14nm processor for the mainstream enthusiast: the Core i7 6700K.

Launching along with the 6th Generation Core i7 6700K is the quad-core Core i5 6600K that, much like the i5 series chips of the past, does not support Hyper Threading, leaving you with four cores and four threads. Coming along for the ride are motherboards equipped with the Intel Z170A PCH to support these new offerings from Intel. Pricing comes in at $350 for the Core i7 6700K and $243 for the Core i7 6600K.

As we look at the 6th Generation Core i7 6700K, Intel will be prepping for the full launch of Skylake later on this month at IDF, where the full scope of the architecture will be shown to the world. What we have today is a taste of things to come from Intel. Let's see how it performs in relation to the 4th and 5th Generation Core series processors from Intel. Looking at the paper specifications, performance should be impressive.