Discussion - Ivy Bridge Vs. Haswell Budget Oriented Processors (Pentium/Celeron)

toneekay

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Okay so I wanted to kick off a small, yet very informative discussion for this new topic; didn't see any of these created, so here it is... Recently, Intel sas released their new Haswell "value" processors as they call it, and I wanted to see how they stacked up against the previous generations "value" processors. Here's a few from each generation to take a look at core speed and what not.

Ivy Bridge
G2020 - 2.9 GHz
G2030 - 3.0 Ghz
G2130 - 3.2 Ghz
G2140 - 3.3 Ghz

Haswell
G3220 - 3.0 GHz
G3420 - 3.2 GHz
G3430 - 3.3 GHz

(All of these processors have an L3 Cache of 3MB)


* From first glance, they look pretty similiar, however I did notice that some of the higher clocked Haswell processors supports RAM speeds up to DDR3-1600. They also utilize the new socket 1150 motherboards. Now I Haven't really done too much research, but I did notice that they're also available at Microcenter for pretty cheap (fortunate if you have one near you). The only thing is that being they're 1150 socket, the motherboards do have a slight price increase.

Anyways, just seeing what others have came across as far as these processors. I know they'll make a stout budget gaming rig paired with a lower end mainstream GPU. If anyone that HAS picked one of these newer processors up and may have had experience with last generation's, please also give in your two cents.
 
On average a Haswell CPU is about 6% - 9% more powerful than an Ivy Bridge CPU of the same clockspeed depending on which set of benchmarks you look at. Therefore, I suppose it comes down to price. How much more expensive are the Haswell Celerons/Pentiums compared thier Ivy Bridge counterparts? What is the price difference between comparable socket 1150 and socket 1155 motherboards? If the cost of a Haswell setup is not a lot more expensive (6% - 9%), then I suppose you should go for Haswell.
 

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I am talking about the margin of performance improvement of going from ivy to haswell for each product line that we currently know. So that would be about a 5-10% improvement for haswell i3's vs ivy i3's. They are the same arch, so the performance gains in their respective product lines should be similar.
 

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Ahh icic... I couldn't find any benches online (since nobody really benchmarks these lower end processors), however, if what you guys are saying is true with the performance scaling from IB to HAS then it seems to be a good pick up considering cpu/mobo price ratio.

I myself have been using IB Pentiums for budget builds for family and friends, and since Haswell releasing their lower end lines, I was thinking about going that route in the future for these types of builds.
 

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I am in the process of building my wife's budget gamer with a has well Pentium. I will post up benchmarks if requested? The comparisons drawn from several online reviews have the 3220 Haswell Pentium out-classing the FX-4300 by AMD with relative ease. I think that if you were to put a nice budget GPU here, a has well Pentium could make for a good little htpc project
 

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This... I know that the IB Pentium processors outperform the lower end AMD FX (4100 series) processors when paired with a decent GPU, stock vs. stock. However, in some processor dependent game titles, of course the quad cores will have the upper hand. I've been pretty impressed with all the Pentium processors since the 2nd gen SB line and recent; I've yet to try out any of the HW budget processors yet. So if you have some benchmarks, then that'll help myself and others get an idea of the performance increase over the years with these lower end processors.