velocityg4 :
Geez 140W TDP. What's the point of making a K series?
moar moniez from an h.e.d.t. sku where power and heat aren't necessarily issues.
velocityg4 :
You're not going to get much more out of that.
max. 8 cores, redesigned cache bus, "proper" gen 3.0 pcie implementation, ddr4, higher (regardless how much
) ipc in mainstream softwares etc.
velocityg4 :
The current Ivy Bridge has a higher clock rate and 130W TDP. Even the 10 core 3Ghz Xeon E5-2690 is 130W.
haswell-e will likely have higher ipc, so lower clock and more cores should help.
velocityg4 :
Does Haswell-e do more work per cycle? It looks like a step backward to me. TDP should be going down and clock up.
it's not a step backwards. tdp woulda gone down if intel managed to reduce power use and heat in the same 22nm process or fabbed hsw-e on 14nm.