Intel and AMD pipeline ?

[wildman]

I have been trying to look at what is in the pipe for both these companies with regards to CPU development and I haven't really been able to find anything really concrete.

I am currently running a 2500K which thus far has been able to handle everything I throw at it games wise. BF3 is likely the only issue where I am likely getting some mild bottlenecking of the 7950 crossfire when running everything at ultra.

The main issue I see is that I could shell out now and move to haswell (4770K would be cpu of choice) but I am not sure if it is really worth it at this point in time.

Is there a a confirmed road map for the next series of CPU offerings that will eb coming out with projected timelines for release so I can at least start to plan what I might end up moving too.

If I am being really honest I was 1 click away today from pulling the trigger on a move to X79 but I am worried that it might be redundant in the very near future ?The only real reason i could give myself for going X79 was the fact that I want to rebuild my rig........... again..... lol.

I must be every hardware shops dream customer

 

[mjones1]

Nothing really worth upgrading to until Haswell-E hits late next year, just overclock your 2500k further.

 

[wildman]

Nothing really worth upgrading to until Haswell-E hits late next year, just overclock your 2500k further.

its already sitting at 4.8

I'll hang tight till Haswell-E then go for a full platform upgrade next year. What sort of time are Intel looking at for releasing haswell-E late 2014 or would it be before the summer ?

 

[JediFragger]

Yup me too I think. Already clocking the nuts off my 2700k and that will more than do me til Haswell-E

Just hope it's a decent boost!!

 

[ubersonic]

Just hope it's a decent boost!!

Not a chance im afraid, as far as we know Haswell-E isn't scheduled to arrive until late 2014.

HW-E will be to Haswell what IB-E and SB-E were to IB and SB (similar CPU performance but more features on the motherboard), unless you need the extra PCI-E or memory channels of X?9 then HW-E isn't really going to be more of an upgrade than Haswell would be right now.

Intel's ticktock cycles mean that we are currently waiting for the "tick" (the tiny performance improvement with a die shrink, lower power consumption and better iGPU).

This is how it's laid out if its any help:

Enthusiast:
Tick: Bloomfield (i7 9xx)
Tock: Gulftown (i7 9xx)
Tick: Sand Bridge-E (i7 3820/39xx)
Tock: Ivy Bridge-E (i7 4820/49xx)
Tick: Haswell-E (i7 59xx?)

Regular:
Tick: Lynnfield (i5 7xx, i7 8xx)
Tock: Clarkdale (i3 5xx, i5 6xx)
Tick: Sand Bridge (i3 2xxx, i5 2xxx, i7 2xxx)
Tock: Ivy Bridge (i3 3xxx, i5 3xxx, i7 3xxx)
Tick: Haswell (i3 4xxx, i5 4xxx, i7 4xxx)
Tock: Broadwell (?)

So you see if Haswell doesn't do it for you then neither will its 2014 refresh as that will be to Haswell what IB is to you SB. Also HW-E will not be the jump that SB-E was as from a processing point IB-E to HW-E can't be any better than IB to Haswell was (bout 5% ish).

Of course anything can happen in the time frame were talking about, but yeah that's it as it stands.

 

[gpuerrilla]

Uber.. care to complete the thread by expanding on the same way for AMD's lay out?

 

[Freddie1980]

Nothing really worth upgrading to until Haswell-E hits late next year, just overclock your 2500k further.

Whats he going to do wih Haswell-e that he can't do with a normal Haswell system? 2 extra cores? Able to run more then two two gpus at once? IMO Haswell's best selling point is being able to use the faster onboard graphics for open gl applications whicb is morenof a benefit then a 6 core cpu.