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That's why we didn't do this with machine types. If you don't care, you don't have to. If you care, ask for a particular CPU platform (or newer). Most people won't and probably shouldn't care, but Skylake is enough of a jump that we finally are giving people the explicit ability to choose.

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> Skylake is enough of a jump

Can you give more details about this?

Both clock-for-clock and even more strongly for applications that can take advantage of AVX-512, Skylake can be a lot faster than either Haswell/Broadwell. Like the jump from Sandybridge/Ivybridge to Haswell/Broadwell, the jump to Skylake is a big one. For now the best comparisons are going to come from independent sources like Anandtech and hopefully from customers running their actual code on Skylake and publishing the results.

I mean it is no Kaby Lake ;)

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