Intel Reveals More Details of Ivy Bridge Variants at ISSCC
Intel has revealed further details about its 22nm Ivy Bridge platform at the IEEE International Solid-State Circuits Conference, which currently takes place in San Francisco.
Following the initial disclosure of Ivy Bridge at IDF Fall 2011, Intel engineer Scott Siers announced that there will be four different Ivy Bridge die models. The dies will integrate two or four cores, two different DX11 graphics units, as well 2 to 8 MB L3 cache. Ivy Bridge will carry up to 1.4 billion transistors that span over an area of 160 mm2, which is about 26 percent smaller than the comparable 216 mm2 Sandy Bridge die with 1.16 billion transistors.
Ivy Bridge will also integrate DisplayPort support and 20 channels of PCIe 3. The memory controller now supports 1.35V DDR3L SODIMMs.
Digitimes reported last week that Ivy Bridge would not be shipping as planned, as the production of the processors appears to be delayed. According to the publication, a small volume of Ivy Bridge chips will be available in April with volume shipments not happening until Q3, which would mean - if Digitimes is right - that volume Ivy Bridge computers won't be available until early Q4. The culprit apparently is the economy and weak demand, which makes it difficult for PC makers to get rid of their Sandy Bridge inventory. However, Intel told VR-Zone that the report is only partially true and only dual-core Ivy Bridge models will be delayed.
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Not sure if Ivy will be a worthy upgrade over my 2600k @ 4.5 other than slightly better temps from the lower nm process and slight bump in speed 10-20% I've read about. But may do it anyway just to have the latest greatest, along with 2 GTX 680s in SLI. 2560 x 1600 res ftw.
Not sure if Ivy will be a worthy upgrade over my 2600k @ 4.5 other than slightly better temps from the lower nm process and slight bump in speed 10-20% I've read about. But may do it anyway just to have the latest greatest, along with 2 GTX 680s in SLI. 2560 x 1600 res ftw.
Don't waste your money. You already have it made. Wait for a few years.
I think I'll keep my 5.2ghz 3960X, lol.
I've got a 2600k and I'll definitely be upgrading. Unless Ivy Bridge goes Bulldozer on us or something...
A i52570k will be a sweet upgrade from my e8400. Battlefield 3 hates a dualcore!
If Intel and other companies wanted existing inventory to sell well then just drop the prices.
My tax return is burning a hole in my packet. I have a Q9400 right now and I want to upgrade badly (not that the Q9400 is horrible). I was just planning on getting a 2500K right now. Should I just try and wait it out?
my hands were itching a few hours ago to buy a i5-2500k for a desktop build. i can still wait... i think.
A i52570k will be a sweet upgrade from my e8400. Battlefield 3 hates a dualcore!
http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 63-13.html
no difference with an i3 to i7!
i am trying not to get a 2600k and spring for the ivy, cause I want better performance in skyrim. all my other components are decent, could use more ram or OC my i7, but I think ill spend the money on a full new system once they come out
http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 63-13.htmlno difference with an i3 to i7!
That benchmark is based on single player. But when it comes to Multiplayer, its a whole new ball game.
Slow development... AMD, you ruined everything.
I wonder what would happen if I play Crysis 2 or Civ5 with DX11 at medium resolution?
i am trying not to get a 2600k and spring for the ivy, cause I want better performance in skyrim. all my other components are decent, could use more ram or OC my i7, but I think ill spend the money on a full new system once they come out
thats ignorant and were have you been? its pretty common knowledge that bf3 multiplayer likes a quad core.
"a small volume of Ivy Bridge chips will be available in April "
What the hell does that mean? What's a small volume for Intel? What type of CPU's are they - mobile or desktop? Who's getting them? Is Apple getting the CPU's first? Apple doesn't participate in the sticker program, and can give Intel media Buzz that no other PC maker can duplicate. Is that what is meant by small volume? I'm interested but also very bothered by the total lack of details.
It means that OEM orders will be fulfilled first, and then what little is left will be released to the retail market. For you and me, it means there is going to be a backorder on Apple's new MBP when it is released this spring, so order as soon as possible if you're interested, and NewEgg will run out of stock minutes after putting them up for order, much like what happened when they got a limited stock of 7970's a month ago.
thats ignorant and were have you been? its pretty common knowledge that bf3 multiplayer likes a quad core.
I've been fine with games up until now. the e8400 oc's well. It's had it's time in the sun, It ran crysis now for bigger and better things
Not sure if Ivy will be a worthy upgrade over my 2600k @ 4.5 other than slightly better temps from the lower nm process and slight bump in speed 10-20% I've read about. But may do it anyway just to have the latest greatest, along with 2 GTX 680s in SLI. 2560 x 1600 res ftw.
I would say it probably isn't worth it. I've got a 2700 @ 4.6 myself, and I have no plans on upgrading until the next die shrink, as that usually comes with a new socket as well. I might trade up for a new motherboard when they are release though, as I'm not really impressed with the P8Z68 Deluxe board I'm running right now. Word is they'll support USB3 natively, and won't have to offload the second row of SATA3 connectors to 3rd party controller like my board does. Depends on what other features the new boards come with, and how they are priced.
I think the funny part is people that already have Sandy Bridge chips want to upgrade to Ivy Bridge when all they are doing is wasting their money for the most part. The only thing that's worth upgrading to Ivy Bridge is PCIe-3 maybe, but even with that said no gpu card unless you are running two top of the line gpu's in corssifre mode can even come close to taking advantage of that much bandwidth. Even with that said you'll be lucky with the current top of the line gpu's out now to hit PCIe-2 limits in corssfire mode let alone anything else. I'm running a first gen Core i7 cpu and i have no plans on upgrading anytime soon, because there isn't a real good reason to for me unless i actually see a night and day diff in the work i do on my pc to go upgrade.
Sigh... Intel can u just release it already. I know the TH community is starving for some benchmarks.
Intel should start with LGA2011 Ivy BirdgE :-)
thats ignorant and were have you been? its pretty common knowledge that bf3 multiplayer likes a quad core.
Huh? I think you might have misquoted somebody. Anyways, I was talking about Skyrim. I get decent FPS though with everything set on high. I use a mod now that replaces some function calls with optimized ones and now its great. My video card isn't the bottleneck, so most games are fine, just the ones that aren't super optimized for 4+ threads like skyrim (which is 2 threads mostly), since my 2.66 only goes up to 2.8GHz in turbo mode. I haven't really OC'd because of my stock cooler. Would anyone recommend an OC with my stock cooler if my idle temps are around 41-48 on light load (2 browsers, a bunch of tabs, and email client). It's probably my GPU, since it's at 52C idle and 70s under super load. It's the gigabyte one that blows hot air everywhere. Ive got all my case fans populated. I just feel like if Im going to buy a new case (which I will) and new ram, I should just get a whole new setup, with the exception of GPU.
20 pcie 3.0 lanes... *drool*
Launch the 4Ghz+ stock clock 95w Ivy. Come on, not 77w.
I... have been actually waiting because I have a good enough system, and I want my next system to be so far out, that It will blow me away for a while =D
I don't see any reason, for a gamer, to go beyond i5 2500/2500k with a sandy bridge board capable of getting an ivy processor in 1-2 years..
Even the GPUs are throttling down energy and are not boosting performance..the 7xxx series of ATI seem like that..(To be honest i am quite happy with my 5870 at 1920x1200 in 99% of games at max settings)
Oh no... I told my friend to wait for IB like 3 months ago, saying it was going to be released in April. Oh dear...
i don't think if you want to upgrade from sandy i5 and i7, but if your coming frmo i3 then its worth the upgrade, but most likely you would be building the entire pc again, specially those who come from sb-e. although for people who loves to build pc and keep different kinds of them for test and other self satisfaction rights, then it is worth it
I think I'll keep my 5.2ghz 3960X, lol.
haha okayy: Core i3-2100/Asrock H61/8GB1333/XFX HD5850oc/WD Black 500/Antec 300/Antec EA380w bronze
Just finished Deus Ex:HR
Huh? I think you might have misquoted somebody. Anyways, I was talking about Skyrim. I get decent FPS though with everything set on high. I use a mod now that replaces some function calls with optimized ones and now its great. My video card isn't the bottleneck, so most games are fine, just the ones that aren't super optimized for 4+ threads like skyrim (which is 2 threads mostly), since my 2.66 only goes up to 2.8GHz in turbo mode. I haven't really OC'd because of my stock cooler. Would anyone recommend an OC with my stock cooler if my idle temps are around 41-48 on light load (2 browsers, a bunch of tabs, and email client). It's probably my GPU, since it's at 52C idle and 70s under super load. It's the gigabyte one that blows hot air everywhere. Ive got all my case fans populated. I just feel like if Im going to buy a new case (which I will) and new ram, I should just get a whole new setup, with the exception of GPU.
i did sir. i meant to click the person above you.
http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 63-13.htmlno difference with an i3 to i7!
your wrong. thats single player and who plays single player? no one.
Ive also been waiting for Ivy Bridge and then I read about Haswell and its going to be another chipset requiring a new mobo, this is planned for next year, I'm tired of having to change motherboard all the time just to get a new cpu, its not a cheap excercise , just wished Intel could try to stick to one long enough....