Tuesday, March 20th 2012
Intel "Ivy Bridge" Pentium G2120 Arrives in Q4-2012
Intel's first Pentium processors based on the 22 nm "Ivy Bridge" silicon will arrive in Q4, 2012. One of the first models in the series, is the Pentium G2120. Specifications reveal that the chip will be quite generously designed as far as specifications go. To begin with, it is a dual-core processor, with a clock speed of 3.10 GHz. It lacks HyperThreading, so 2 logical CPUs is all that the OS will see; as well as Turbo Boost, so the clock speed won't normally scale beyond 3.10 GHz. Interestingly, the chip has 3 MB of L3 cache, on par with some Core i3 dual-core chips. The instruction-set has SIMD instructions up to SSE 4.2, but lacks AVX. Further, the PCI-Express root hub only supports PCI-Express 2.0, lacking PCI-Express 3.0 support. Its TDP is rated at 65W.
Source:
CPU World
18 Comments on Intel "Ivy Bridge" Pentium G2120 Arrives in Q4-2012
Core i1 (Celeron), Core i2 (Pentium), Core i3, Core i5, Corei7, Core i9 (6-core i7's, like they originally intended for Gulftown), Core i10 (the 8-core i7's we know are coming).
Also, these things seem pretty powerful. I hope they end up well under the $80 mark.
/me trying to win an argument
as for me if Intel release the Pentium K at US 80 i will buy instantly.. i know that will never happen.. sigh
ark.intel.com/products/52224
Turbo or not the pentium has a higher clock. The only difference after that is hyperthreading.