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The i7-2700K is now the performance king on the LGA-1155 platform (until the release of the Ivy Bridge processors), replacing the i7-2600K. The i7-2700K is clocked at 3.5 GHz (100 MHz higher than the 2600K), has four cores (8 threads), 8MB of L3 cache, a TDP of 95W, and integrated Intel HD 3000 graphics. The release costs is $332, which $15 more than the i7-2600K (based on 1,000 units).
Intel has adjusted the prices of the Core i3-2120, Pentium G850 and G630 by roughly 15% across the board.
| Model | Cores | Threads | Frequency | L3 cache | Old price | New price |
|---|
| Core i3-2120 | 2 | 4 | 3.3 GHz | 3 MB | $138 | $117 |
| Pentium G630 | 2 | 2 | 2.7 GHz | 3 MB | $75 | $64 |
| Pentium G850 | 2 | 2 | 2.9 GHz | 3 MB | $86 | $75 |
i read somewhere that intel used the best yields for 2700k chip, may be this one will oc even higher....
can't wait for a 2700k vs 2600k vs 2500k vs bullwhatever performance comparison.
Too bad Core i7 2700k ain't the king of Sandy Bridge CPU, just king in the desktop segment.
Xeon E3-1890 is the king, running at 3.6GHz and can turbo up to 4GHz.
http://ark.intel.com/compare/52214,55452,52278
That's why IB is pushed back to 2012.
ivy bridge got pushed back to make room for 2700k and sb-e release. afaik ivb will be released in late q1 2012 - around march-april.
They've been working on IB for years, long before BD started to look like a failure. They're not going to just not release it if it's already done. Plus, I imagine Intel still remembers what happened the last time they got complacent. AMD's not in the same position as it was in the P4 days, but I don't think Intel wants a real challenge and will keep putting out new designs to assure their dominance.
Do they have to compete?
Where?
Intel didn't get complacent in the P4 days. They had a team of morons design it. It's not hard to figure out that if you design a less efficient processor and make it run at crazy high speeds you're going to have heat issues which will prevent said processor from competing with faster, more efficient CPU's.
before i fully judge the bulldozer i want to see windows 8 performance, with the amd cpu being written for it, like 7 is with intel, and revision 1 of bulldozer.
i want to see how bulldozer performs with windows 8.0 as well. the sad reality is - amd had time to work with microsoft on the scheduler thing and other performance issues yet it underperformed significantly.
otoh linux apps are multithreading optimized, so bd might show some improvements there and they have the opportunity to write optimized driver for that (though i did read at phoronix that the latest bd patch by amd got criticzed by linus torvalds).
who are they competing with? AMD? this i7 makes bulldozer look like an Intel celeron