IB is not 77W but 95W!!

[blckgrffn]

2600k and 2500k are rated for the same TDP.
The chart shows the 95w TDP 2500k and 3770k use about the same power, while the also 95w 2600k uses more power.

TDP doesn't mean power draw, and never has.

? I didn't say that it did?

I was just pointing out that thread title was correct (given Internet pictures, so...), so why would it need to be changed or the thread closed? We were led to believe that all the IVB parts would be rated 77W TDP (that was my impression, which might be flawed) and so this is a seemingly noteworthy change.

If we had been told all AMD FX chips were to be 95W, and then a couple weeks before launch some were changed back to the "old" higher level of 125W, would that not be cause for discussion?

That's all.

@ Don - :awe: Great pic

*second look edit*
HAHA. Man I must be slow. That is an incredibly ironic tip amount

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

Apple probably sells more MacBook Airs in a month than Intel sells 2500Ks in a year. The "low end" is far more important to Intel than the enthusiast high-end.

While the desktop space is shrinking the enthusiast space (DIY'er, gamer, power user) has grown over 10% last year. Of all the processors that we sale in the custom space (build your own or have someone build your computer with a boxed processor) the Intel® Core™ i5-2500K was our best selling processor.

So the enthusiast space is very important to us as a company and into the future.

 

[blckgrffn]

While the desktop space is shrinking the enthusiast space (DIY'er, gamer, power user) has grown over 10% last year. Of all the processors that we sale in the custom space (build your own or have someone build your computer with a boxed processor) the Intel® Core™ i5-2500K was our best selling processor.

So the enthusiast space is very important to us as a company and into the future.

Interesting! Thanks for the information!

I don't suppose you'd be able to disclose the size that market in comparison to others for some added perspective?

 

[flashcrew]

Ivy Bridge sells with 95W TDP, but uses a maximum of 77W

http://www.nordichardware.com/news/...s-with-95w-tdp-but-uses-a-maximum-of-77w.html

I believe this would enlighten all about the 77W, 95W TDP confusion

 

[blckgrffn]

Ivy Bridge sells with 95W TDP, but uses a maximum of 77W

http://www.nordichardware.com/news/...s-with-95w-tdp-but-uses-a-maximum-of-77w.html

I believe this would enlighten all about the 77W, 95W TDP confusion

Nice. If we had a "wiki" section under the first post that could be updated, this would certainly belong there. Thanks for posting it... and if it was posted earlier in the thread, then I missed it.

boxleitnerb had it first, I see

 

[Maximilian]

While the desktop space is shrinking the enthusiast space (DIY'er, gamer, power user) has grown over 10% last year. Of all the processors that we sale in the custom space (build your own or have someone build your computer with a boxed processor) the Intel® Core™ i5-2500K was our best selling processor.

So the enthusiast space is very important to us as a company and into the future.

Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy :$

 

[kevinsbane]

While the desktop space is shrinking the enthusiast space (DIY'er, gamer, power user) has grown over 10% last year. Of all the processors that we sale in the custom space (build your own or have someone build your computer with a boxed processor) the Intel® Core™ i5-2500K was our best selling processor.

So the enthusiast space is very important to us as a company and into the future.

Neat. 10%? That's pretty significant.

 

[Zucker2k]

Ivy Bridge IS 77 Watts.

/Thread.

 

[cytg111]

In the words of the late Steve Jobs, Sandy Bridge was "insanely great!" Faster, lower power, better overclocking, integrated GPU, etc., etc. That made it a tough act to follow.

Ivy Bridge is looking like a tremendous letdown, not quite Bulldozer-esque, but close. Let's just hope Intel is using this as a test vehicle for manufacturing tech that it will apply to greater effect in Haswell.

Isnt the IB vs SB conclusion something like; one has 10% IPC lead and the other 10% OC headroom lead ?
come piledriver, it may be a good thing for the state of competition (even though uber fast intel cpus are allready mad cheap).

 

[SHAQ]

Most consumers are going mobile and will continue to do so so it is only common sense that enthusiasts will be more and more important in the future for destop processor sales, especially the consumer oriented SKU's.

 

[Don Karnage]

ivy bridge is 77 watts.

/thread.

3570k - 77w
3770k - 95w

Gotta love Hyperthreading

 

[Smoblikat]

3570k - 77w
3770k - 95w

Gotta love Hyperthreading

That doesnt make sense, 26/25K are both 95w, but the 2600 has HT.

 

[BallaTheFeared]

That doesnt make sense, 26/25K are both 95w, but the 2600 has HT.

Yet the 2600k drew more power...

TDP isn't a measurement of load wattage.

 

[Zucker2k]

Yet the 2600k drew more power...

TDP isn't a measurement of load wattage.

Binning. Also, the 2600k/3770k run closer to tdp than either the 2500k or the 3570k.

 

[IntelUser2000]

Yet the 2600k drew more power...

TDP isn't a measurement of load wattage.

Sure it is. When you can actually load the CPU to TDP. Not a lot of applications these days load up to TDP, hence the misleading belief that "TDP doesn't equal load power".