Intel has announced its Skylake processors will receive a mid-generational refresh in the form of Kaby Lake CPUs, which is launching under the 7th generation Core branding and promises to handle 4K video better as well as high-performance gaming.

The team at Intel have been able to draw even more out of its 14nm processors as the Kaby Lake chips deliver up to 12 percent increase in productivity performance and up to 19 percent faster web performance over its previous generation from a year ago. Premium 4K UHD content will also be supported, although Intel notes additional content announcements will be announced in the near future.

As for gaming, Intel promises a threefold improvement in graphics when compared to PCs that are at least five years old. This means gamers can expect to play popular games, like Overwatch, on thin and light laptops, although Intel doesn’t go into detail as to what kind of performance we can expect. Are we talking at 4K? 1080p? 720p? As of now, we just don’t know.

With Intel’s Kaby Lake processors being released today, PC gamers are in a weird predicament if they already run a system with a Skylake processor. They can either choose to upgrade to Kaby Lake now to receive a slight boost in gaming performance, or they can just wait for Intel’s next eventual big leap in its processors to get an even larger boost in performance.

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