Ivy Bridge-E is Intel’s successor to their high-end computing platform, Sandy Bridge on the LGA2011 socket. It will be released in September 2013 and will be priced lower than the outgoing Sandy Bridge models.<\/p>\n
It may also present a challenge to current-generation Haswell parts, as these chips will be cooler and cheaper at launch than Haswell processors.<\/p>\n
Ivy Bridge-E introduces the same benefits that users saw in the regular desktop version of Ivy Bridge, including lower power usage and better boost states.<\/p>\n
The minor performance boosts won’t completely make up for the fact that the chips won’t overclock as high, and may actually be hotter once overclocked as a result of the jump down to the 22nm manufacturing process.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n i7-3970X<\/strong><\/td>\n | i7-4960X<\/strong><\/td>\n | i7-3960X<\/strong><\/td>\n | i7-4930K<\/strong><\/td>\n | i7-3930K<\/strong><\/td>\n | i7-4820K<\/strong><\/td>\n | i7-3820<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \u00a0Clock speed <\/strong><\/td>\n | \u00a03.7GHz<\/td>\n | \u00a03.6GHz<\/td>\n | \u00a03.5GHz<\/td>\n | \u00a03.4GHz<\/td>\n | \u00a03.2GHz<\/td>\n | \u00a03.7GHz<\/td>\n | \u00a03.6GHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \u00a0Turbo speed<\/strong><\/td>\n | \u00a04.0GHz<\/td>\n | \u00a03.7GHz<\/td>\n | \u00a03.9GHz<\/td>\n | \u00a03.6GHz<\/td>\n | \u00a03.8GHz<\/td>\n | \u00a03.9GHz<\/td>\n | \u00a03.8GHz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \u00a0Core count<\/strong><\/td>\n | \u00a06<\/td>\n | \u00a06<\/td>\n | \u00a06<\/td>\n | \u00a06<\/td>\n | \u00a06<\/td>\n | \u00a04<\/td>\n | \u00a04<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \u00a0Thread count<\/strong><\/td>\n | \u00a012<\/td>\n | \u00a012<\/td>\n | \u00a012<\/td>\n | \u00a012<\/td>\n | \u00a012<\/td>\n | \u00a08<\/td>\n | \u00a08<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \u00a0L3 cache<\/strong><\/td>\n | \u00a015MB<\/td>\n | \u00a015MB<\/td>\n | \u00a015MB<\/td>\n | \u00a012MB<\/td>\n | \u00a012MB<\/td>\n | \u00a010MB<\/td>\n | \u00a010MB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \u00a0TDP<\/strong><\/td>\n | \u00a0150W<\/td>\n | \u00a0130W<\/td>\n | \u00a0130W<\/td>\n | \u00a0130W<\/td>\n | \u00a0130W<\/td>\n | \u00a0130W<\/td>\n | \u00a0130W<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | \u00a0RRP (USD)<\/strong><\/td>\n | \u00a0$1059<\/td>\n | \u00a0990<\/td>\n | \u00a01059<\/td>\n | \u00a0555<\/td>\n | \u00a0594<\/td>\n | \u00a0310<\/td>\n | \u00a0305<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table><\/div>\n | The most interesting part of the lineup is the unlocked Core i7-4820K. It’s only slightly more expensive than the Core i7-3820 but should be a real bargain thanks to the overclocking capabilities, lower power consumption, and slightly higher performance.<\/p>\n It brings the entire lineup more into parity because Intel has probably now realised that enthusiasts don’t buy the Core i7-3820 because it’s a locked processor on a platform that is meant to deliver ultimate performance.<\/p>\n The Core i7-4960X may be the biggest disappointment initially because of its lower stock speeds. The Turbo Boost speed should now apply to all cores and give it the edge in multi-threaded benchmarks, but its the price that’s going to be the main concern here.<\/p>\n The Core i7-4771 is also not what we expected<\/h3>\nVR-Zone managed to get its hands on a Core i7-4771 and it looks like this chip isn’t anything really special. Its a locked version of the Core i7-4770K, and performs identically at the same stock and Turbo Boost speeds. It may be the replacement for the Core i7-4770, which is slower than the K-series version at stock speeds and may not be as popular owing to that performance deficit.<\/p>\n It may be that Intel has also noticed a lot of users buying the Core i7-4770K and inserting it into motherboards with the H87 or H81 chipset and using the Non-Z OC feature to expose multiplier-based overclocking on those platforms. Intel plans to ship out microcode updates with new BIOS versions or through Windows Update and will release the Core i7-4771 later this year.<\/p>\n Source: VR-Zone<\/a><\/h6>\nUS spies exploiting backdoors in computer hardware?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n |