Monday, April 14th 2014
Intel Starts Shipping 'Haswell Refresh' Processors
Without any real fanfare Intel has now kicked off sales and shipments of processors part of 'Haswell Refresh' line. An official launch for the updated Haswell offering, complete with motherboards based on the 9 Series LGA1150 chipsets, is reportedly planned for next month but since the CPUs got the go-ahead you can expect them to reach stores shortly.
A total of 44 chips have been introduced by Intel, 27 of which are for desktops while the rest are for mobile devices. There's nothing really new about the CPUs as they are still based on the Haswell architecture (which debuted last year) but they do have slightly higher (100 MHz in most cases) frequencies than the models they aim to replace (speed bump at no added cost).
On the desktop side the Haswell Refresh brings a new non-K king -the 3.6 GHz Core i7-4790, some lower-power variations of it (the 65 W TPD 4790S and the 45 W 4790T), plus no less than ten new Core i5s, and a bunch of low-end Pentium and Celeron models. The mobile segment got five new quad-core processors clocked between 2.1 GHz and 2.5 GHz, and various Core, Pentium and Celeron dual-cores. The entire release wave is detailed in the tables above.
A total of 44 chips have been introduced by Intel, 27 of which are for desktops while the rest are for mobile devices. There's nothing really new about the CPUs as they are still based on the Haswell architecture (which debuted last year) but they do have slightly higher (100 MHz in most cases) frequencies than the models they aim to replace (speed bump at no added cost).
33 Comments on Intel Starts Shipping 'Haswell Refresh' Processors
Intel hasn't added them to ARK yet; looking forward to getting at the finer details.
Like Call of Duty and other market bul*shits, they decided just to release new processors every single year.
This is what happens when your brain shrinks and you lack originality.
Apllies to Op too bonus.
If bought for a 3 year old pc upgrade then great ,if last year's pc then hold up a while
With all of that said, I don't think you would be disappointed if you upgraded, but I probably would be if I did though... unless I really had a good use for a 6-core beast. :p
I'd simply call these CPUs "a slightly faster bunch of Haswell CPUs".
Don't know why journalists are obsessed with the word "refresh".
I'm tempted even though I have a 4770K , the only thing that stops me is Haswell-E and DDR4 which is coming soon.
I have a 4770k C0 revision and is not overclock friendly. Because i buy it 2 months after release and i know this will happen.
Those will be the next "mainstream" chips and WILL NOT fit a z87 board,
you're gonna need a z97 for it
Core i7 5960X - 8 cores / 16 threads ~$1000 USD
Core i7 5930K - 8 cores / 16 threads ~$550 USD
Core i7 5820 - 6 cores / 12 threads ~$300 USD
The Haswell-E processor nomenclature is a guess as well. Still, it would make sense that Intel would attempt to make the entry level Haswell-E processor less attractive with respect to the other two (mid and high-end). So the entry level may be locked or rather partially locked comparatively speaking.
6 cores (real cores mind you) / 12 threads for ~$300 could be really interesting and attractive depending on your use case.
The problem there though is that new X99 / LGA2011-3 motherboards will likely be expensive or at least more expensive then mainstream LGA1150 boards to say nothing of DDR4 with respect to DDR3.