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15% increased average FPS, considering the price difference it's not that amazing really.
Nobody knows when ivy-e will arrive, if we go off the current sb-e release it will arrive 5-6 months before the mainstream goes haswell, potentially rendering it useless depending on how well haswell performs.Omm nom i guess. So maybe a future all 8 cores enabled 22nm IB version would make a decent upgrade for my i5 750? Or is it wait for Haswell by then?
And will there be a game that makes use of it?
The future of CPU's isn't with these 130 watt behemoths but with low power chips like we see from ARM.
ARM’s superior energy efficiency can be traced back to the origins of the ARM architecture. While ARM was originally designed for extremely small and low power embedded devices, Intel and AMD x86 CPUs were always trying to make the Windows operating system run faster with little consideration for power consumption.
Why oh why would anyone be stupid enough to purchase this for gaming?
Why oh why would anyone be stupid enough to purchase this for gaming?
The future of CPU's isn't with these 130 watt behemoths but with low power chips like we see from ARM. Just look at the quality of graphics on the games you can play on a the Transformer 2 tablet its just amazing what you do with a handful of watts. The lack of competition for the past 5 years at the high has also made this less interesting.
Absolutely true. The current trend is towards mobile computing/devices, and that`s what IvyBridge is aiming to cater for - low power, scalable performance.
How that`ll translate in comparison performance-wise to SB-E remains to be seen. I think for productivity applications SB-E on 2011 is a safe bet looking ahead to IB-E.
For games on the other hand, there`s clearly very little point in going down SB-E / 2011 route..
I suppose it depends also how many screens one uses in gaming, nvidia surround needs some power to play some games at highest settings i would imagine?.My understanding was that the X58 and now the X79 are not really for gamers? I mean an i5 2500K is generally more than enough for gaming.
Exactly, the benefits of replacing your CPU have diminished greatly over the years and for your average PC enthusiast come PC gamer is there any need to replace a 5 year Q6600/Q6700 that's been overclocked to over 3Ghz or even an AMD Phenom II X4?