Quote:Would love to hear the community's thoughts on these specs, if they turn out to be accurate! Is it what you expected, and does it make for an appreciable effect on performance?
Quote:Base frequency is still 3.5GHz, still 4 cores, still 8MB L3 cache and still 3.9GHz with Turbo Boost.
They haven't told us jack shit yet. Everyone gets worked up about meaningless specs like clock rate, cache size, and core counts. I'm surprised at you gabriel given that you're a long time forum member.
Quote:Agreed. This is getting really boring, other then Haswell i7 4770K I see no big changes at all that would benefit me drastically from leaving the Ivy Bridge i7 3770K that I already have.
See above.
Quote:I'm totally sick with the name : i3/i5/i7
Intel ! Why don't you create new name ?
I'm not going to wait till Core i7 9770k
Just kidding ...
Yeah I like the consistency of the naming system in recent years. Unfortunately I know that it won't last.
Quote:I see they raised the power consumption...interesting
Bigger core, same manufacturing process. So of course.
Quote:I was hoping for a 6 core i7 in the non enthusiast line
Well they told us that the core was going to be significantly bigger years ago so I don't see why anyone would expect that.
Quote:and it is still disappointing that the unlocked processors lose virtualization.
Agreed. That still doesn't make sense to me.
As far as the details that actually matter they were released many months ago:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6355/intels-haswell-architecture
http://www.realworldtech.com/haswell-tm/
http://www.realworldtech.com/haswell-cpu/
We know that IPC will significantly improve but we didn't know whether the clock rate would go up, down, or stay the same. I was expecting it to go down so this is actually good news for me. All we can do now is wait for the benchmarks. The improvements they made should boost single and multithreaded performance by at least 20%.
I'm also interested to know if they are still using that god awful TIM.
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