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Intel Demos 14nm Broadwell: Up to 30% Lower Power than Haswell

Lower power only really significant to mobile/laptop market...if the CPU progression remain the same "meh" as currently is, then it means very little to PC users...

Think most people would prefer much better performance instead...
 
Great, longer battery life for my plugged into the wall-battery-less pc. It's like a hooker with a degree, a completely useless addon for me.
 
Same performance for 30% less power is all very well. But what I *really* want to see on the desktop variants is 30% more performance for the same power. Pretty please Intel?
 
well...i'll buck the trend and say I'm happy with that :p means more performance per watt which is great for smaller devices such as the nuc, and battery life on the next gen of laptops
 
I fancy boys said:
well...i'll buck the trend and say I'm happy with that :p means more performance per watt which is great for smaller devices such as the nuc, and battery life on the next gen of laptops
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Yea but for gamers lower power consumption does nothing for improving frame rate.

Even for gaming laptop, without the power brick the battery would last like what...less than an hour of gaming section before it run out of juice (so it will last 60 mins instead of 45 mins may be...15 more mins is big deal right?), not to mention gaming laptop with high-end GPU can't run properly without the adapter constantly connected.
 
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Not excited. My i7 37something laptop lasts for hours when its not doing much and is silent. Don't really want 6h instead of 5h battery life in my 15" nvidia 650 laptop and silent is silent enough for me. If I had a 12" laptop with a double size battery like Mr Travelling Businessesman then yeah but I'm a pc lover not user so gimme power!
 
30% less power use than Haswell is actually pretty damn good, Hopefully this will translate into lower temps at the same clocks. Power savings always welcome. Prob get another 5% - 10% IPC improvement as well. Be good if these slot into existing 1150 motherboards though, I'm not sure Broadwell would be worth a complete upgrade for, if it's compatible with my current mobo though would be sweet. Otherwise i'll hold out for Skylake or Haswell -E..
 
Depends what the process can tolerate, and it depends what the power difference is elsewhere but the lowest end. Because Intel is pushing into mobile markets and they are the real growth segments, Intel is also pushing their processes towards mobile. There is a reason the biggest power saving in Haswell was in mobile chips at the lowest voltage and speeds.

Likewise here the 30% lower afaik, we're talking about 4.8W instead of 6.7W or something, this is the ultra low end of the process we're talking about. How much power is saved at a higher voltage/clock speed combo they haven't stated yet as far as I know and 22nm was a much smaller improvement at the top end as we saw with people and their disappointment with Ivy clocks.

I'm going to be stupidly angry at Intel if they don't finally bring at least a hex but maybe an octo core to mainstream pricing range. maybe hexcores at £150 and octo's at £250. Might be more angry at AMD if they do or have dropped octo cores themselves....
 
drunkenmaster said:
Depends what the process can tolerate, and it depends what the power difference is elsewhere but the lowest end. Because Intel is pushing into mobile markets and they are the real growth segments, Intel is also pushing their processes towards mobile. There is a reason the biggest power saving in Haswell was in mobile chips at the lowest voltage and speeds.

Likewise here the 30% lower afaik, we're talking about 4.8W instead of 6.7W or something, this is the ultra low end of the process we're talking about. How much power is saved at a higher voltage/clock speed combo they haven't stated yet as far as I know and 22nm was a much smaller improvement at the top end as we saw with people and their disappointment with Ivy clocks.

I'm going to be stupidly angry at Intel if they don't finally bring at least a hex but maybe an octo core to mainstream pricing range. maybe hexcores at £150 and octo's at £250. Might be more angry at AMD if they do or have dropped octo cores themselves....
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It will be very interesting to see if Skylake stays quad core mainstream or ups the game to 6 cores mainstream. Personally that's the architecture I am looking forward to for upgrading my Q9650 :cool:
 
WingZero30 said:
It will be very interesting to see if Skylake stays quad core mainstream or ups the game to 6 cores mainstream.
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I guess that will depend on what Intel's partners have been asking for, more cores or better integrated graphics; I have a nasty feeling that the latter is more likely...
 
tbh said:
I guess that will depend on what Intel's partners have been asking for, more cores or better integrated graphics; I have a nasty feeling that the latter is more likely...
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IMO I'd rather Intel being huge boost on IPC rather than more cores, as most CPU demanding games (strategies, mmos, sims etc) they don't use more than 4 cores.
 
So, reading between the lines a bit here, what youre saying is, at the moment it looks like haswell is the last "desktop" processor coming from intel for a while???
 
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