Some new Intel Ivybridge details

[garyfl]

ah right so its best to go sandy e mobo witha cheap cpu to tide over and get the ivy 2011 cpu replacement at a later date ? confused how id upgrade without wasting too much money

 

[olivier renault]

With your setup, I'd just sit tight until 2011 IB-E (could be a while). This will likely be expensive, and I will be interested in the performance gap with Ivybridge 1155 (if any to be frank, unless you want to go extreme enthusiast which is not the way to save money).

 

[drunkenmaster]

Sandy-e won't necessarily be compatible with a theoretical IB-e next year, they seem to have dropped pci-e 3, usb3, and several other things to get Sandy-e out on time, though its likely the mobo's will still supposed pci-e 3.

The lga2011 platform is simple needlessly expensive for 99.99999999% of home users, if you work and quite literally cpu performance translates into money, its a great platform, for gamers, and 99.99999% of people, its a joke, sometimes less performance than a vastly cheaper sandybridge non e, and faster in things most people simply don't use.

If you had to upgrade now, pretty much the most up to date Sandybridge mobo available now with the best chance of being really compatible with pci-e 3 is your best option, you can slot an Ivybridge in next year if you need to.

But Ivybridge in all, is meh, very very meh, 10% faster with IPC AND clockspeed improvements, you'd never, ever be able to tell the difference between a quad core Sandy and Ivy in any gaming at all, and most of everything else, unless you encode video and use quicksync compatible software, the improved IGP won't do you any good.

The vast majority of people on this forum will find a 2500/2600k will last them from last Jan through mid 2013 when theres likely to be Haswell available, with potentially 6-8 cores on the low end/cheaper platform, and a significant boost in cpu power.

Likewise bulldozer seems set to come very very close to Sandybridge, and Intel have just told everyone, Ivy is barely an improvement, so a Bulldozer is likely to be a competitive or potentially even better option up till Haswell also.

 

[drunkenmaster]

TONS of new ivy bridge info released today: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4830/intels-ivy-bridge-architecture-exposed/1

Looks very impressive, 10% improvement in cpu performance (partly due to higher clock speed), much faster gpu, much lower power usage, supports LDDR3 (1.35v or so i think), faster quicksync and manufacturers can implement PCI-E 3.0.

TO be fair, very very little of this is new.

Standard Ivy info for well over 6 months, barely any IPC improvement, bigger gpu, more efficient gpu, marginal clock speed boost, pci-e 3.

Some of the minor info like specific architecture improvements are new but not surprising stuff and mostly GPU based.

This type of info is so easily guessable from the quality sites who get good info that you'd have known ages ago that Sandy is a pretty awesome and long term upgrade, IE buy in Jan(or with a real mobo in April ) and have it through till mid 2013.

Only sucky thing with Intel is, without the GPU with the unfortunately vastly undersupported quicksync, they could easily, so easily have finally moved on to hex core in the mainstream, or they could still have easily offered hexcore without GPU versions for those that didn't need it.

Intel have been on quad cores for way way too long, its bordering on a joke, and as said its likely Haswell and mid 2013 for hex or octo cores in the mainstream pricing, Q6600 was available in Q1 07, IPC is vastly up on that, theres no question there, but Intel are milking insanely high margins off tiny chips, we should have had more cores by now, no doubt.

 

[Nightglow]

Ivybridge Will support 4096 x 4096 resolution, & also support 4k HD video

http://vr-zone.com/articles/post-idf-bites-ivy-bridge-gpu-to-support-4kx4k-displays-/13584.html