Sandy bridge pricing leak

[anuoldman]

couple of observations:

-there's about 100 percent chance that MB manufacturers will do something to decouple clocks and provide overclocking on these chips

- Intel won't allow Bulldozer to breathe.... they have horsepower waiting to go and if Bulldozer surprises, they'll release the hounds... you can forget about AMD putting up a real high end fight this for the next couple of generations

- AMD is in serious trouble on the medium to low end with Sandy Bridge at those price points with halfway decent integrated graphics... Intel will hold them 'up on the ropes' but it sure won't be fun at AMD HQ

 

[Edrick]

- Intel won't allow Bulldozer to breathe.... they have horsepower waiting to go and if Bulldozer surprises, they'll release the hounds... you can forget about AMD putting up a real high end fight this for the next couple of generations

That makes me think what Intel could put out today (or soon) if they had to. What do they have sitting on the shelf waiting to be released in case of emergency?

 

[OCGuy]

If these hold true, I am impressed with the stock clocks and price.

My 3.33ghz dual-core Wolfdale cost more than a 4c/8t SB around the same frequency?

Yes please!

 

[ydnas7]

http://ark.intel.com/ProductCollection.aspx?codeName=33174
look at the Xeon 5667, 32nm, 3.06Ghz 4Core 8 Thread Westmere for only $1440
the Sandybridge i7 4core 8 thread with Integrated graphics will probably approximate the above in performance... for about 1/5th the price

 

[khon]

I wonder if a stock i7-2600 will break 4GHz with the turbo boost when only 1-2 cores are active.

The Lynnfield i7s it will be replacing have a turbo boost as high as 667MHz. If the SB i7 is about the same it should be able to get there.

Could make for sub-10s SuperPi 1M times with a stock CPU. As far as I know no current CPU can do that.

 

[Martimus]

That makes me think what Intel could put out today (or soon) if they had to. What do they have sitting on the shelf waiting to be released in case of emergency?

It is likely the same as Nehalem if that comment was accurate. They clocked the chips very low compared to where they would go, because they didn't need to increase clocks to beat the competition. (This allows them more sellable chips, and the ability to segment their products based on demand instead of supply.) I sincerely doubt they have any additional architecture that they would be holding back, since that would be a waste of R&D dollars.

Of course, it just may be that this architecture will launch at clock speeds that are closer to the maximum than Nehalem did. We won't know this for some time yet.

 

[khon]

That makes me think what Intel could put out today (or soon) if they had to. What do they have sitting on the shelf waiting to be released in case of emergency?

I doubt they have much saved up, though they probably could release the 6-8 core versions of SB earlier if need be.

 

[OCGuy]

That makes me think what Intel could put out today (or soon) if they had to. What do they have sitting on the shelf waiting to be released in case of emergency?

They could release a "budget" 6-core that clocks just as high as the stock $1K 980.