New Intel Haswell desktop CPU models now available

[Fjodor2001]

http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2013/2013090101_Intel_launches_Haswell_desktop_processors.html

From September 1, 2013:

Intel today introduced new Core i3 and Pentium microprocessors, built on three-month old Haswell architecture. The company also refreshed Core i5, Core i7 and Celeron lines with new Haswell and Ivy Bridge models, and released Xeon E3-1220L v3 model, that was announced in June 2013. Brief specifications, as well as prices of these products are available in the official price list, that was updated last night.

Model            C/T Frequency   L3 Cache IGPU   IGPU Frequency TDP  Price

Celeron G1620T   2/2 2.4 GHz     2 MB     HD     Up to 1050 MHz 35 W $42
Celeron G1630    2/2 2.8 GHz     2 MB     HD     Up to 1050 MHz 55 W $52
Pentium G3220    2/2 3 GHz       3 MB     HD     Up to 1100 MHz 54 W $64
Pentium G3220T   2/2 2.6 GHz     3 MB     HD     Up to 1100 MHz 35 W $64
Pentium G3420    2/2 3.2 GHz     3 MB     HD     Up to 1100 MHz 54 W $75
Pentium G3420T   2/2 2.7 GHz     3 MB     HD     Up to 1100 MHz 35 W $75
Pentium G3430    2/2 3.3 GHz     3 MB     HD     Up to 1100 MHz 54 W $86
Core i3-4130     2/4 3.4 GHz     3 MB     HD4400 Up to 1150 MHz 54 W $122
Core i3-4130T    2/4 2.9 GHz     3 MB     HD4400 Up to 1150 MHz 35 W $122
Core i3-4330     2/4 3.5 GHz     4 MB     HD4600 Up to 1150 MHz 54 W $138
Core i3-4330T    2/4 3 GHz       4 MB     HD4600 Up to 1150 MHz 35 W $138
Core i3-4340     2/4 3.6 GHz     4 MB     HD4600 Up to 1150 MHz 54 W $149
Core i5-3340     4/4 3.1/3.3 GHz 6 MB     HD2500 Up to 1050 MHz 77 W $182
Core i5-3340S    4/4 2.8/3.3 GHz 6 MB     HD2500 Up to 1050 MHz 65 W $182
Core i5-4440     4/4 3.1/3.3 GHz 6 MB     HD4600 Up to 1100 MHz 84 W $182
Core i5-4440S    4/4 2.8/3.3 GHz 6 MB     HD4600 Up to 1100 MHz 65 W $182
Core i7-4771     4/8 3.5/3.9 GHz 8 MB     HD4600 Up to 1200 MHz 84 W $314
Xeon E3-1220L v3 2/4 1.1/1.3 GHz 4 MB     N/A    N/A            13 W $193

 

[BSim500]

There's links to a couple of reviews of the new i3's over on this thread.

Unfortunately, the Haswell i3's are not very impressive at all. Aside from very little performance gain (especially for a "tock"), Intel have quietly upped the TDP from 54w from their prior announcement to 65w as now listed on their site:-
http://ark.intel.com/products/family/75025/4th-Generation-Intel-Core-i3-Processors/desktop

If you look at the Russian & Chinese reviews in first link, Haswell i3's are using up to 25% more load power than Ivy's (95w vs 77w from Chinese review & 117w vs 92w from Russian one) with barely 5% speed gain to show for it.

The recommended prices are also ridiculous - $157 for i3-4340 3.6GHz vs $177 for an i5-3350P quad-core (3.7GHz inc Turbo Boost). For just $20 more, you could get a 100MHz faster chip with 2 free cores thrown in that uses just 4w more power with 4-cores fully loaded than the Haswell i3's do with just 2-cores fully loaded...

In short : Poor performance / $ vs an i5-3350P and poor performance / Watt vs an i3-3240/3250. :thumbsdown:

 

[crashtech]

So you don't think much of the IGP improvements then? I think the added transistors on the gpu side may be at least partially the source of your complaints. Clearly the video performance of the 4340 will far exceed that of the 3350P.

 

[VirtualLarry]

So you don't think much of the IGP improvements then? I think the added transistors on the gpu side may be at least partially the source of your complaints. Clearly the video performance of the 4340 will far exceed that of the 3350P.

Does it really matter? Intel graphics still suck.

 

[crashtech]

Does it really matter? Intel graphics still suck.

I imagine the bulk of machines will ship with no dGPU, so it matters to the extent that it's an increment in the right direction.

But yeah, Intel graphics have sucked forever. It's baffling to me that they haven't done better by now.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

Does it really matter? Intel graphics still suck.

Not as much as they used to. I'm not saying you will be rocking the latest crysis maxed with 60fps, but you can run Diablo 3, SC2, and things like HL2/CS:S, DOTA2 with very respectable frame rates at low-med settings. As far as I'm concerned, anything that leads to better graphical performance can only help the pc gaming industry of which I am a huge fan.

 

[Ken g6]

This table needs to include which processors have which instruction sets. The i3s don't have TSX, for instance. And the Pentiums don't have AVX2 - or even AVX1!

 

[crashtech]

That's not a regression, though, right? Just a continuation of segmentation. Basically a relatively benign monopoly.