Intel Skylake set to have DDR4 but no PCI-E 4.0 – Set to Appear under Xeon in 2015

[Orangey]

http://wccftech.com/intel-skylake-set-ddr4-pcie-40-set-xeon-2015/

Undoubtedly all of you will be aware but to those who arent Skylake will succeed Broadwell. There had been countless leaks in the past that all but confirmed that Skylake will feature PCI-E 4 but it turns out that Skylake wont feature PCI-E 4.0 After all.

I know a lot of people here are/were waiting for Skylake.

 

[Martini1991]

Doesn't that image say PCI-E 4.0 ?

 

[Akagi]

Skylake will probably be my next upgrade from my 2500K

Hope its a goodun.

Doesn't that image say PCI-E 4.0 ?

Yes, yes it does.

 

[benjii]

I upgraded my Bloomfield to Haswell, however, I know I'm going to have the itch again when Skylake comes out with all these new features. I'll regret it though, the RAM is going to be £££.

 

[Akagi]

I'm wondering if we will see DDR3 motherboards as well as DDR4, or at least some DDR3/DDR4 crossover boards like there were with DDR/DDR2 and DDR2/DDR3

 

[Jokester]

The no PCI-E 4 refers to the Xeon version.

 

[alex_123_fra]

...the RAM is going to be £££.

So will the older RAM if you keep hold of it long enough.

 

[Frozennova]

I'm wondering if we will see DDR3 motherboards as well as DDR4, or at least some DDR3/DDR4 crossover boards like there were with DDR/DDR2 and DDR2/DDR3

Doubtful on that one, it was only possible on 775 as the memory controller was part of the chipset. AMD did it with the AM3 stuff as the processors had two memory controllers.

 

[etched Chaos]

The no PCI-E 4 refers to the Xeon version.

Says PCI-E 4 in the Xeon box.

 

[ubersonic]

Says PCI-E 4 in the Xeon box.

Good point, it's Xeon Phi that doesn't

 

[Martini1991]

And as far as I'm aware, Xeon Phi is their crazy compute cards, which I think originated from larrabee?

 

[dmferrett]

I was under the impression that pciE3 is only maginally better than pciE2 when using 2-3 gpu's and by marginally I'm talking only 0.5-1fps advantage!!!

So if pcie4 follows this trend it could be just a ploy to get people onto the new intel boards and the new chipset, because in terms of raw performance the gains might be very small.

I'm not upgrading until I get more cores or double the performance...ala moores law (2 years)

 

[Martini1991]

I don't think people actually understand what moores law is

 

[Orangey]

I don't think people actually understand what moores law is

Can you blame them when there are supposedly intelligent people on TV getting it wrong constantly?

 

[FrankJH]

I thought some bigwig at Intel or somewhere was saying Moore's law was becoming redundant?