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How many of you are going to get a Broadwell-E CPU?

Likely next month. They're supposed to launch at computex on the 31st of May, so a few weeks after *likely* before hitting retail stores.
 
A decrease in IPC? I wonder if those articles about Intel chips regressing in performance were true.. Well the results about the chip are probably accurate but I'm not sure whether to trust OC3D since they were kind of negative towards x99 from the start anyway I think?
 
IIRC Broadwell's IPC change compared to Haswell was about nil (up to 3% in some scenarios but also slightly worse in others). Obviously Broadwell had a much improved IGP compared to Haswell, which is probably why it had a limited release - Intel knew it was a pointless upgrade in terms of CPU power on a mainstream quad core platform, so the only way to make a viable product was to seriously improve the IGP and make that the selling point for the C-series chips.

I'm sceptical that the IPC has dropped overall for Broadwell-E but it wouldn't surprise me if it were the same as Haswell-E within the margin of error, on average.
 
FYI that OC3D is referring to the test and thread by the Silicon Lottery guys who posted that data on OCN: http://www.overclock.net/t/1599263/6950x-benchmarked

In same thread and written by people far clever then I am, its suggested the 6950x uses a specific die configuration that is resulting in what's being seen. The die config seems to be scaled up for 8 cores, so we still may see a IPC bump on the pair of 6 and 8 core CPU's. Does go some way to explain the results from the other thread showing a bump in IPC on the 6 core over the 5820k, even if its not overly large.
 
It's laughable when people are trying to justify Broadwell-E with a few percent performance like that would make things better.

Broadwell-E should have been massively faster then Haswell-E. It's been almost 2.5 years between chips and considering the node shrink is almost 50% the chips should also come with hefty price drops.
 
How many of you are going to get a Skylake-E CPU?

It's slightly slower than Broardwell but offers 8-12 cores :p The good thing is it comes with a decent price hike :)
 
jigger said:
It's laughable when people are trying to justify Broadwell-E with a few percent performance like that would make things better.

Broadwell-E should have been massively faster then Haswell-E. It's been almost 2.5 years between chips and considering the node shrink is almost 50% the chips should also come with hefty price drops.
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It's two extra cores inside the same thermal envelope as before, what more do you expect? a 50% performance increase when AMD still haven't developed a core faster than Intel's Nehalem architecture from 2008?

If AMD hadn't abandoned their latest architecture they'd have been dishing out the same small increments in performance until Zen, like they've been doing with their APU's.

What's really laughable is AMD supporters criticising Intel for a slowdown in development.
 
mmj_uk said:
It's two extra cores inside the same thermal envelope as before, what more do you expect? a 50% performance increase when AMD still haven't developed a core faster than Intel's Nehalem architecture from 2008?

If AMD hadn't abandoned their latest architecture they'd have been dishing out the same small increments in performance until Zen, like they've been doing with their APU's.

What's really laughable is AMD supporters criticising Intel for a slowdown in development.
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What do I expect? Erm a CPU with around 15-20% more performance than what come before it and a reduced price. Not a slower more expensive chip. If you're happy to upgrade to a slower CPU's you must be a fool. The only way Intel will improve is if we tell them to.

You can't compare AMD to Intel. Intel are light years ahead. It's funny that because someone points out the facts of just how poor a chip this is and what a sad state a company like Intel have become they must be AMD fanboys.
All but one of the last ten systems I've used has been an Intel based system. So if anything I'm an Intel fanboy. I bought a Pentium dual core back in the A64 days and took stick for it. But a least that Intel chip offered value, and the motherboard a Core2 upgrade.
 
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