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For those waiting for Intel’s higher end CPUs, news has just surfaced regarding the release of the Ivy Bridge-E processors. It seems that the launch has been targeted for September 2013 according to sources and Tech site VR-Zone has released a leaked slide from the folks in Santa Clara that narrows down the dates according to product.
In the chart we see that the new HEDT (High End Desktop) CPUs will be the 17-4820K, i7-4930K and finally the top dog the i7-4960X. Ivy Bridge-E CPUs are based off the 22nm lithography and are a Die shrink of the Sandy Bridge-E processors. One thing of note and merit is that these new CPUs will work in the current LGA-2011 socket meaning you will not need a new motherboard just to run the new CPUs.
As far as rumored performance goes, from what has been leaked it looks as if these new CPUs will be obviously faster and we see the Core i7-4960X is stated to be around 5-10 percent faster across the board than the i7 3970X. Hopefully though we will see some of the new power benefits as well that Ivy Bridge brought, but the main thing is just new life in their CPU lineup.
Also performance gains are 100% improvements in efficiency, as the core count has not changed in the new E series. VR-Zone also reported that the top tier i7-4960X actually contains 20MB of L3 cache and eight cores, but has one-fourth of its resources disabled for the consumer version of the product. A full eight-core/20MB cache processor will be sold under the Xeon brand, but will undoubtedly go for a much higher price than $999.
Intel has always been a leader in the High-End CPU department and their products usually gain a robust price tag as well meaning that if Intel still decides to adopt the same pricing structure as SB-E then pricing should be around $1000, $600, and $300-350. The new roadmap show features such a 40 PCI-Express lanes (Gen 3.0) DDR3 1866MHz support, Hyper Threading and Turbo Boost 2.0.
All three CPUs come unlocked right out of the box for extensive overclocking and tinkering. With this news also comes new regarding Intel’s latest Haswell release and the Haswell-E HEDT platform Code Named “ Lituya Bay “. Haswell-E is slated for a first half of 2015 release and will be based on its namesake 22nm architecture and will remain compatible with socket 2011 motherboards something Intel has done since the early days of the PC.
There will however be a motherboard refresh though that allows the use of DDR4 memory to give users that upgrade path if they so desire it. I am happy as a clam with my Sandy Bridge i7 3960X as it does everything I need it too so for me this is cool new, but for 10% I think I will stay in this platform for a bit longer. How about you folks, does this seem like great news, or are you satisfied with what you have as well? Thanks for reading Tech OF Tomorrow, where your voice has a place and we love to see your interaction in the comments section below, Peace.
Source: Tech Spot
For those waiting for Intel’s higher end CPUs, news has just surfaced regarding the release of the Ivy Bridge-E processors. It seems that the launch has been targeted for September 2013 according to sources and Tech site VR-Zone has released a leaked slide from the folks in Santa Clara that narrows down the dates according to product.
In the chart we see that the new HEDT (High End Desktop) CPUs will be the 17-4820K, i7-4930K and finally the top dog the i7-4960X. Ivy Bridge-E CPUs are based off the 22nm lithography and are a Die shrink of the Sandy Bridge-E processors. One thing of note and merit is that these new CPUs will work in the current LGA-2011 socket meaning you will not need a new motherboard just to run the new CPUs.
As far as rumored performance goes, from what has been leaked it looks as if these new CPUs will be obviously faster and we see the Core i7-4960X is stated to be around 5-10 percent faster across the board than the i7 3970X. Hopefully though we will see some of the new power benefits as well that Ivy Bridge brought, but the main thing is just new life in their CPU lineup.
Also performance gains are 100% improvements in efficiency, as the core count has not changed in the new E series. VR-Zone also reported that the top tier i7-4960X actually contains 20MB of L3 cache and eight cores, but has one-fourth of its resources disabled for the consumer version of the product. A full eight-core/20MB cache processor will be sold under the Xeon brand, but will undoubtedly go for a much higher price than $999.
Intel has always been a leader in the High-End CPU department and their products usually gain a robust price tag as well meaning that if Intel still decides to adopt the same pricing structure as SB-E then pricing should be around $1000, $600, and $300-350. The new roadmap show features such a 40 PCI-Express lanes (Gen 3.0) DDR3 1866MHz support, Hyper Threading and Turbo Boost 2.0.
All three CPUs come unlocked right out of the box for extensive overclocking and tinkering. With this news also comes new regarding Intel’s latest Haswell release and the Haswell-E HEDT platform Code Named “ Lituya Bay “. Haswell-E is slated for a first half of 2015 release and will be based on its namesake 22nm architecture and will remain compatible with socket 2011 motherboards something Intel has done since the early days of the PC.
There will however be a motherboard refresh though that allows the use of DDR4 memory to give users that upgrade path if they so desire it. I am happy as a clam with my Sandy Bridge i7 3960X as it does everything I need it too so for me this is cool new, but for 10% I think I will stay in this platform for a bit longer. How about you folks, does this seem like great news, or are you satisfied with what you have as well? Thanks for reading Tech OF Tomorrow, where your voice has a place and we love to see your interaction in the comments section below, Peace.
Source: Tech Spot
! I'm currently running an I7-2600k on P8P67 Deluxe. I just ordered an Asus P9X79-E WS board with an I7-3930k.
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