Monday, December 3rd 2018
Intel "Glacier Falls" Platform Likely Gets a Computex Unveil, Also B365 Chipset
Intel's 9th generation re-branding of its "Skylake-X Refresh" HEDT processors could have a rather short lifespan in the company's product-stack of just three quarters. Intel is planning to launch its next HEDT platform, codenamed "Glacier Falls," which succeeds the current "Basin Falls Refresh." "Glacier Falls" could launch around late-Q2/early-Q3, with unveils slated for Computex 2019 (June). These details are part of a slide leak from an internal presentation from motherboard manufacturer GIGABYTE.
The slide revealing "Glacier Falls" also mentions two new mainstream-desktop platform chipsets, the B365 Express and the H310C Express. There is no information on what sets these apart from the current B360 and H310, respectively. We predict their entry is necessitated by stronger CPU VRM requirements to support 9th generation Core 6-core and 8-core processor SKUs that are known to pull up to 140 Watts of power (unrelated to TDP, which is calculated on the basis of nominal clock speed and not Turbo Boost). There's also a faint possibility of Intel giving the B365 CPU overclocking support to compete with the value proposition of AMD's B450.
Source:
Komachi Ensaka (Twitter)
The slide revealing "Glacier Falls" also mentions two new mainstream-desktop platform chipsets, the B365 Express and the H310C Express. There is no information on what sets these apart from the current B360 and H310, respectively. We predict their entry is necessitated by stronger CPU VRM requirements to support 9th generation Core 6-core and 8-core processor SKUs that are known to pull up to 140 Watts of power (unrelated to TDP, which is calculated on the basis of nominal clock speed and not Turbo Boost). There's also a faint possibility of Intel giving the B365 CPU overclocking support to compete with the value proposition of AMD's B450.
16 Comments on Intel "Glacier Falls" Platform Likely Gets a Computex Unveil, Also B365 Chipset
looks like Intel is drowning in their own mismanagement if it's 22nm... looks like 7nm AMD CPU and GPU in winter 2019 is my next and final silicon build after all, I am tired of waiting around
Older AMD chipsets (AM3 and FM2[+]) were made by Global Foundries on 32nm too.
Not sure about the upcoming
300500-series from AMD. Could be 32nm.www.anandtech.com/show/13201/intel-preps-h310-revision-with-win7-coffee-lake-support
Don't be the enemy of your own wallet. Probably for 700$, really? :D
There are no clockspeed or platform advantages to be had for gaming on HEDT... These CPUs don't run better because they lack one. All you get is paying premium for a different segment without extracting any advantage out of it. Quad channel RAM, more PCIE lanes, etc. It has no use except for them warm fuzzy HEDT feels, or something :D
Higher core counts always cost clock speeds, in one way or another. Coffee Lake dodges that bullet by just running hot. Very hot. Even under solder. Glacier won't be running less hot doing 5 Ghz because they say its a Glacier ;)
Patience, young gwasshoppa...
www.anandtech.com/show/12233/amd-tech-day-at-ces-2018-roadmap-revealed-with-ryzen-apus-zen-on-12nm-vega-on-7nm/8
400-series was also 55nm, as far as I know. I think the only difference between x470 and x370 is that AsMedia figured out the kink in their initial design, which caused those chips to run hot and fail on rare occasions. That's very typical for AsMedia.
I'm hoping that at some point in the future AMD will drop their partnership with AsMedia, and either outsourced everything to Renesas or went back to designing their own chipsets.
But HEDT have a number of advantages, not only a wide selection of core configurations, also memory bandwidth, PCIe lanes, more efficient cache, AVX-512 and dual FMAs, better featured chipsets, etc. which do have significant benefits for various workloads, including heavy encoding, CAD, modeling, programming, VMs etc. These do have little to no benefit for gaming though, but Intel's HEDT lineup have the benefit over Threadripper of being good enough for gaming, making them an excellent choice for (semi-)professionals who also want to do some gaming.
My largest annoyance with HEDT is the overlap between i7/i9 and Xeon-W. In my opinion these platforms should be merged.