Thursday, November 17th 2011
Ivy Bridge-E in Q4 2012, Compatible with LGA2011 and X79
Earlier this week, Intel launched the fastest desktop processors under its Core i7 "Sandy Bridge-E" platform, with is partners, motherboard, memory and cooler vendors. Less than a week into its shelf life, Sandy Bridge-E already has a successor taking shape at Intel, slated for the fourth quarter of 2012, but that's far from being the most interesting part of this news. According to a new internal slide scored by a source at XFastest, Ivy Bridge-E will be compatible with today's Intel X79 platform, and LGA2011 socket.
Suddenly, Sandy Bridge-E makes for a sweeter deal because its platform longevity (for upgrades) is at least two years. Ivy Bridge-E, like Ivy Bridge LGA1155, will be built on the 22 nanometer silicon fabrication process. We don't expect Ivy Bridge-E to be much more than an optical shrink of today's Sandy Bridge-E silicon, but the shrink could leave scope for enabling some of its components otherwise locked out for the Core processor family. Sandy Bridge-E silicon physically holds 8 cores and 20 MB of L3 cache, but the fastest Core processor based on it has just 6 of those cores, and 15 MB of L3 enabled. The source at XFastest says that while Ivy Bridge-E is slated for Q4 2012, the LGA1155 Ivy Bridge will launch across Q1 and Q2 of 2012 (March~April).
Source:
XFastest
Suddenly, Sandy Bridge-E makes for a sweeter deal because its platform longevity (for upgrades) is at least two years. Ivy Bridge-E, like Ivy Bridge LGA1155, will be built on the 22 nanometer silicon fabrication process. We don't expect Ivy Bridge-E to be much more than an optical shrink of today's Sandy Bridge-E silicon, but the shrink could leave scope for enabling some of its components otherwise locked out for the Core processor family. Sandy Bridge-E silicon physically holds 8 cores and 20 MB of L3 cache, but the fastest Core processor based on it has just 6 of those cores, and 15 MB of L3 enabled. The source at XFastest says that while Ivy Bridge-E is slated for Q4 2012, the LGA1155 Ivy Bridge will launch across Q1 and Q2 of 2012 (March~April).
22 Comments on Ivy Bridge-E in Q4 2012, Compatible with LGA2011 and X79
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but yeah, as if Ivy isn't sufficient over Sandy (with improved performance and TDP), there's also Ivy-E. Which doesn't only stand for more cores, it means a better batch with Extreme chips.
Must. Have ivy #s before ordering 2011 waiting hurts too
This needs to be confirmed. One of the reasons i planned on not going x79 was due to no clear upgrade path (a la x58). But if this is true....... I'll be getting my x79 hat back on.
Do i need x79? Hell no.
Do i want it? Yup.
My countries economy is screwed, if i buy my SB-E rig, I'm doing my part to help out. :D
My 3930K is arriving though :) Can't wait :rockout:
I don't know where do these people get the idea to upgrade as far as to SB-E... especially when they already have top-end, more suited chips like a 2600k or a Gulftown 980x... the benches are out. It only pulls more power while working hotter. Doesn't help in games and so it's a waste for gaming.
+1 Wile E
Yup it might not be good for gaming but map developers and other can use anything that Intel can put together and then still need DrQueue to string several pc's together and do a decent render.
Online Clouds is obsolete / buggy / useless, home user would need all the power they can micro data center / home HPC themselves even if using DrQueue to render with. Home pc is not dead, it is just getting started.
Although if they say some thing about a new slot i might wait for that lol.
Even I can't validate spending $550 on a CPU.