Ah, I probably won't be using the IGP in any way for SVP with a discrete card I guess. I already use GPU acceleration but I guess that utilizes my discrete card?

I should probably wait for some more Skylake SVP results then.

Aha, thanks. That pretty much settles it. 30% should probably beat 50% more cores at lower clocks/IPC.

Any particular reason why Skylake does so well?

Ok, thanks. So you mean there is not much to gain in quality/functions/choices in SVP with higher performance, since these are both "enough"?

I'm getting a new setup, and I'm wondering what will give me the best performance in SVP.

The 6700K has 4 cores and a turbo speed of 4.2GHz and is based on Skylake which is 2 generations newer.
The 5820K has 6 cores and a turbo speed of 3.6GHz and is based on Haswell-E.

How do these stack up against each other for playback with SVP? My usage for other purposes is mostly gaming where single thread performance makes the biggest differences and 4 cores is be enough. So I'm leaning toward the 6700K. It's not that I don't want 6 cores, I would love to since I'm a hardware enthusiast, but since this alternative is a much older generation... I'm hesitant.

Any thoughts?

Will you also update LAV Filter versions in the SVP package?

I find it confusing to try to update these manually since they are not installed to their regular folders when installed as part of the SVP package, so if I try to update I get them twice and I'm confused about which is in use and whether it will work/crash.

Almost all of the components (AVISynth, ffdshow, MadVR) seems to have a later update. Are there issues with these, or are you conservative about updates, or is there any other reasons why we are not at the "bleeding edge" with the SVP package? I'm only asking out of curiosity.