Sandy Bridge E

[Lonbjerg]

How do you know LGA1155 will be 4 cores max? I expect the highest end LGA1155 i7 Ivy's to be 6 cores. Or have you heard something different?

Anyway if Bulldozer hits a home run I would expect Intel to suddenly "find" more cores on their CPU's

You cannot just up cores, just lok at AMD's hexa core..most time their quad core siblings beat them in performance.
More cores dosn't always make sense.

You need to have an architechture that scales and eg. dosn't bottleneck 6 cores with a dual channel RAM bus.

 

[LtMikePowelll]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cooler...th_Next_Generation_Enthusiast_Processors.html


Intel Corp. is considering to bundle a liquid cooling solution with its next-generation enthusiast-class central processing units (CPUs) code-named Sandy Bridge E (SNB-E). The liquid-based cooler will allow Intel’s Extreme Edition (XE) microprocessors to work at even higher frequencies and thus offer higher performance overall.

 

[bryanW1995]

I read about this on local HW site and the journo wrote: "there are not going to be expected 8-cores".
LOL. I wonder, who expected 8-cores, when there was no single 6-core under 500 yet? There is already 3rd or 4th generation of Quads out there, but Intel will magically make only 6-core line (Gulftown) and then jump right onto 8-cores? I do not think so.
Not to mention Gulftown is already 130W TDP at 32nm, while SB might be even more power efficient, i do not think they are capable of adding 2 more cores without crossing that border on current process. Therefore IMHO 8-cores not until 22nm Ivy Bridge (and maybe not even then, depends on the performance of Bulldozer).

yeah, and they don't really need 8 cores right now, anyway b/c they're already pasting AMD as it is.

 

[AdamK47]

The 15MB cache extreme edition will be the one to replace my 980x.

 

[AdamK47]

More info:

http://www.xfastest.com/cms/tid-59818/

 

[Suspicious-Teach8788]

question is how much faster is an Sandy Bridge E over current SB processors? How about when Ivy Bridge lands and slaps the crap out of the high end again like SB is doing now to our X58 systems?

 

[pantsaregood]

question is how much faster is an Sandy Bridge E over current SB processors? How about when Ivy Bridge lands and slaps the crap out of the high end again like SB is doing now to our X58 systems?

Ivy Bridge won't destroy Sandy Bridge in the same way Sandy Bridge has embarrassed Nahalem. Sandy Bridge is a new architecture. Ivy Bridge is a die shrink.

Ivy Bridge is probably going to be "better" than Sandy Bridge in the same way Westmere is "better" than Nehalem.

 

[Tuna-Fish]

How much better die shrinks are depends very much on the properties of the new process.

It's entirely feasible (although quite unlikely) that Ivy Bridge turns out to be slower than SNB. Most probably, it will just be somewhat faster, a little cooler, and smaller (so more cores/graphics pipes per die).

 

[tweakboy]

Wait wait, Ivy Bridge is around the corner.

 

[mk]

Wait wait, Ivy Bridge is around the corner.

Yeah, it's just that the corner keeps getting further away.

 

[Acanthus]

Just buy what is best when you're ready to buy.

The only time it makes sense to wait is if something new is launching in less than a month.

You can play the waiting game forever...

See sig, i put my money where my mouth is.