this is the max performance you can expect across each generation of igpu. a skylake pentium is only using a hd 510 which is slower then a haswel hd4600 which makes it only a little better then the ivybridge graphics.
a GeForce GT 740 offers 804 GFLOPS a R7 250 is 806 Gflops with overclocking ether gpu you might get 900+ if you win the silcone lottery.
as for the amd 7850k it dose have a powefull intergrated gpu with 856 GFlops but the single thread perfomance is obviosly crap and you have no real upgrade path. also in order to get a boost from pairing with a r7 250 the game your playing needs to support crossfire.
Do the desktop Skylake chips have a RAM cache for the iGPU? because that's the only reason broadwell was faster than the APUs, in addition to it's substantial cost
Think we finally sorted it out, about to order a 7870k (only a quid more than a 7850k) and a itx ASRock A88 board with built in AC and Bluetooth 4.0 which are a need for him. He's going to be picking up a stick of 8GB 2400MHz RAM from a PC World a few miles from him that was on clearance for €30 so he has that reserved with them, it's CL11 tho but I don't think that'll make much difference
I played a lot of stuff on a 250X and honestly a GT9800 from EVGA was beating it just barely. 740's are trash. I'm just saying you can have a couple options here :P
