The First Intel Ivy Bridge CPU Clock Speeds and More

[Cazalan]

The TDP includes the video as well. If you have discrete it will be a decent amount lower.
The bigger question is what will the turbo frequencies be like.

 

[haplo602]

[citation][nom]warezme[/nom]I believe this will be my new platform by mid 2012. I'm still rocking an X58SLI with OC'ed i7920 so not in a big hurry. The specs look nice and I'm hoping these will overclock nicely[/citation]

And if you would actualy ready the article, you'd realize they compared SCALING and not ABSOLUTE PERFORMANCE !!!

It was just a simple comparison between regular core scaling, HT scaling and BD module/core scaling. Not one absolute performance number in there.

 

[DirectXtreme]

I hope the Ivy Bridge K parts can overclock significantly better than the Sandy Bridge K parts. I've never understood why Intel decided to add an IGP to the K parts when most people that buy them are going to be pairing them with graphics cards... IGPs are a waste of die space in higher-end CPUs.

 

[zanny]

One thing to note, its about time 3d animation and rendering software got off its collective butts and started refactoring the codebases into openCL. Works on any GPU and lets all the massively parallel stuff be done magnitudes faster than what can be done on cpus.

 

[bee144]

Will this require Intel's new socket: Socket 1155.5? (Not backwards compatible btw!)

 

[Guest]

This is pretty meh compared to Sandy Bridge, still no more cores, and a negligible bump in clock speed... and for a die shrink, saving 17 watts isn't that impressive. For 99% of workloads, this is even pretty meh compared to first gen Core i7 or even Phenom II.

hetneo: Tri-gate really is just a buzzword. Remember when Hi-K metal gates spelled doom for AMD? AMD's non Hi-K 45nm process actually had less leakage than Intel's, which is what was supposed to make Hi-K so awesome. If Tri-gate was half as awesome as Intel makes it out to be, I'd expect either higher clocks out of Ivy, or a bigger drop in TDP than 19%, especially considering that a dumb die shrink should offer a bigger drop than that already.

 

[K2N hater]

[citation][nom]techelite[/nom]For that wide-eyed comment, you'll see the following quoted summary from an impartial review website Phoronix.comhttp://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?p [...] ling&num=1"The AMD FX-8150 doesn't scale quite as well as a true eight-core configuration (i.e. the dual quad-core Opterons or up to six-cores with the Intel Gulftown Extreme), but for most multi-core workloads the Bulldozer CPU is generally competitive with the competing processors -- it was certainly much better than the Core i7 2630QM Sandy Bridge with its four cores plus Hyper Threading."[/citation]
You can't compare a high-power desktop processor to a low-power processor, mainly used in notebooks. It's like comparing a Phenom II to Atom.

Actually the I7-2630QM has been discontinued thus replaced to I7-2670QM a few of months ago. The change consists in 200MHz bump in both base clock (now 2.2GHz) and maximum Turbo Boost clock (now 3.1GHz).

 

[amuffin]

Hm so will they be releasing any new ivybridge boards? I think each company might just rebrand their current boards with the flashed bios, considering it will use the same socket.

 

[ewood]

[citation][nom]iamtheking123[/nom]I guarantee these will overclock like monsters. The lower power consumption guarantees it from a thermal stance and the improved architecture will probably guarantee it even further.[/citation]
however the architecture and power consumption can do little to nothing to get transistors to switch faster or prevent internal timings from becoming unstable. there is literally no way you can guarantee that so why would you say you could?

 

[aniklues]

The rumor Intel kidnapped an alien may be true... I can't believe that it is a technical skill of human!!

 

[iamtheking123]

[citation][nom]Ewood[/nom]however the architecture and power consumption can do little to nothing to get transistors to switch faster or prevent internal timings from becoming unstable. there is literally no way you can guarantee that so why would you say you could?[/citation]
Lower power consumption means you can get away with increasing the voltage even further. Voltage increase improves the signal strength of the on/off switching but also increases the heat dissipation (exponentially).

 

[striker410]

[citation][nom]tmk221[/nom]I'm very disapointed by the fact that we don't have 8 and 16 core desktop processors by now... I mean come on! we have 4 core cpus from like 3-4 years now and still most of the new cpus are 4 core. Is that becouse Intel don't feel any pressure from AMD? Personally I don't belive that Intel with it's multi billion budget and great sandy and now Ivy bridge architecture is not capable of making 16 core desktop cpu...[/citation]
Translation. MORE CORES

 

[nforce4max]

Good news for those with nearly bottomless pocket books who buy Intel only but then again BD makes even Phenom 1 look good and Phenom 2 look better value than ever before. Intel needs to dump or disable the IGP in some models where it won't be of any use for most who will likely buy it.

 

[fstrthnu]

Are there any estimates on how improved the battery life will be for the notebook processors? I'm still trying to decide whether to get a Sandy Bridge notebook now or wait for Ivy Bridge here.

I won't be using the integrated graphics, but I'd like to get an idea of how much faster those Ivy Bridge notebook processors will be

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]sinfulpotato[/nom]There is no reason to upgrade over the LAST generation i5 and i7. Hell, I will even say people with a second generation phenom have no incentive to upgrade. We are talking the neighborhood of 1-5 FPS differences in high resolution gaming across three generations.[/citation]
My phenom ii x4 @ 3.8ghz has been chugging along perfectly on every game I've played. I would be better off upgrading my GTX460 over my CPU. Power consumption isn't a problem either, with K10Stat I can run at 400mhz and 0.95Vcore = silent idle and still able to watch Youtube vids/music at that speed! Why upgrade for another few years?

 

[junnyeen]

Can't wait to upgrade from E6400! Hoping to build a computer with ivy as soon as I'm back!

 

[theuniquegamer]

How good is intel hd 4000 in ivy bridge any benchmarks ???

 

[kyuuketsuki]

It still makes zero sense to include the highest-end integrated graphics in the highest-end CPUs... which are most likely to be paired with a dedicated GPU. Hell, it's a waste of die-space in general. Of course, this doesn't apply for the mobile market, but only for desktops.

Also, the BS of charging an absurd premium for hyperthreading still sucks.

Still... these will be awesome chips if they're not overpriced after Bulldozer-gate...

 

[Guest]

/yawn, call me when CPU companies start raising performance more then a few percentage points per generation.

I really really miss the old days of computer hardware. Where each generation was a significant leap above the last. These days we get a few percent here and there, maybe some more cores, when most software cant even use the ones we have.... BLEH. Oh well here is hoping the next gen might be something significant....

 

[ojas]

[citation][nom]nhat11[/nom]LOL the lowest speed is a 3.0 GHz, this is getting great and crazy[/citation]
Though having said that, the core i3s may be clocked lower, same goes for the low-voltage parts.

I'm more interested in their IPC, really.

 

[mkrijt]

So, no VT-d for the K processors?

 

[atikkur]

i dont need integrated graphics, why dont release it without IGP for lower price?

 

[ichihaifu]

[citation][nom]dgingeri[/nom]I didn't upgrade from my Athlon 64X2 6400+ until Wolfdale came out.[/citation]
I'm still running Athlon 64 X2 4600+ at work :'D
Finally getting an upgrade to i5 2500 and an SSD, oh joy.

 

[tului]

Hell, I've been sitting on my i7 920 since launch. Come 1 December, daddy is getting an LGA2011 in 2011.

 

[Guest]

77W is still 18% higher than my Core 2 Duo which is 65W. 🙁