Ivy Bridge Pricing revealed
Ivy Bridge micro-architecture, planned for the second quarter 2012, will bring a number of enhancements to CPU and graphics portions of the chip. The CPU cores will feature up to 15%, sometimes even higher performance due to micro-architecture improvements and 100 MHz - 300 MHz higher Turbo Boost frequencies. HD 4000 and HD 2500 graphics will add support for DirectX 11, and it will be considerably faster than current HD 3000 and HD 2000 on-chip graphics. What's more important, better performing Ivy Bridge CPUs will come with 20% lower Thermal Design Power. It's great that upcoming CPUs will run cooler and faster, but at what price? Based on pricing information, that we've seen, desktop Ivy Bridge SKUs will have prices, in most cases identical to Sandy Bridge predecessors.Model Cores Threads Frequency Turbo L3cache TDP PriceSimilar to current Sandy Bridge products, Ivy Bridge Core i5s will feature 4 CPU cores with 6 MB of last level cache. The only exception to this is a dual-core i5-3470T with 3 MB L3 cache. The fastest i5 chip will be i5-3570K, a successor to Core i5-2500K. This CPU will come with $225 price sticker. Other i5-35xx series products, namely Core i5-3550, i5-3550S and i5-3570T, will cost $205, or $20 cheaper than the i5-3570K. i5-34xx processors will be the most affordable from i5 family. There will be three of them available in Q2 2012 at $184: Core i5-3450, i5-3450S and i5-3470T.
Core i5-3450 4 4 3.1 GHz 3.5 GHz 6 MB 77 Watt $184
Core i5-3450S 4 4 2.8 GHz 3.5 GHz 6 MB 65 Watt $184
Core i5-3470T 2 4 2.9 GHz 3.6 GHz 3 MB 35 Watt $184
Core i5-3550 4 4 3.3 GHz 3.7 GHz 6 MB 77 Watt $205
Core i5-3550S 4 4 3 GHz 3.7 GHz 6 MB 65 Watt $205
Core i5-3570K 4 4 3.4 GHz 3.8 GHz 6 MB 77 Watt $225
Core i5-3570T 4 4 2.3 GHz 3.3 GHz 6 MB 45 Watt $205
Core i7-3770 4 8 3.4 GHz 3.9 GHz 8 MB 77 Watt $294
Core i7-3770K 4 8 3.5 GHz 3.9 GHz 8 MB 77 Watt $332
Core i7-3770S 4 8 3.1 GHz 3.9 GHz 8 MB 65 Watt $294
Core i7-3770T 4 8 2.5 GHz 3.7 GHz 8 MB 45 Watt $294
http://www.cpu-world.com/news_2011/2...ktop_CPUs.html
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Really great prices, if they don't end up changing, which is a real possibility
Originally Posted by Grimspoon
