Anandtech Haswell review is up!

[Grooveriding]

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7003/the-haswell-review-intel-core-i74770k-i54560k-tested

Why has no one posted this yet ?

 

[ShintaiDK]

Uhh

 

[BallaTheFeared]

Time to grab a drink and start reading!

 

[OBLAMA2009]

it comes out tuesday, i thought it was later in the month. too bad there are bum boards out

 

[frozentundra123456]

Time to grab a drink and start reading!

Just finished reading it. Nothing spectacular, decent gains in some areas. Wish there had been more gaming results though.

 

[R0H1T]

Final Words

I’m a fan of Haswell, even on the desktop. The performance gains over Ivy Bridge depend on workload, but in general you’re looking at low single digits to just under 20%. We saw great behavior in many of our FP heavy benchmarks as well as our Visual Studio compile test. If you’re upgrading from Sandy Bridge you can expect to see an average improvement just under 20%, while coming from an even older platform like Nehalem will yield closer to a 40% increase in performance at the same clocks. As always, annual upgrades are tough to justify although Haswell may be able to accomplish that in mobile.

:|

 

[ShintaiDK]

Gaming benches being GPU limited with max settings and 1440p was....really Anand?

Idle power is amazing.

And K models contain TSX.

 

[ViRGE]

Gaming benches being GPU limited with max settings and 1440p was....really Anand?

And I quote:

After spending far too much time on the Iris Pro test system, I didn’t have a ton of time left over to do a lot of gaming performance testing with Haswell. Luckily Ian had his gaming performance test data already in the engine, so I borrowed a couple of graphs.

 

[ShintaiDK]

I know Virge. I just feel like its a bad priority.

Anyway, for CPU limited game benches:
http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews

 

[Turbonium]

I know it's sort of irrelevant, but lol if this is actually the box: http://anandtech.com/Gallery/Album/2827

 

[Grooveriding]

Reading reviews elsewhere it is not much in the way of overclocking.

http://hardocp.com/article/2013/06/01/intel_haswell_i74770k_ipc_overclocking_review/6#.Uaoy35yKGCg

4.5Ghz is given as the average seen according to Asus who tested '100s of CPUs' and gave this as a general idea of what they saw.

• 70% of CPUs can clock to 4.5GHz
• 30% of CPUs can clock to 4.6GHz
• 20% of CPUs can clock to 4.7GHz
• 10% of CPUs can to 4.8GHz

Looks like once overclocked it runs really hot as well and consumes about 200W at 4.5Ghz. Excellent chip if you plan to run stock or with a mild overclock, but not so great if you want to push it to its limits.

 

[Aikouka]

I'm probably going to upgrade from my i5-2500k. I'm not worried about the overclocking capabilities as even though I tend to buy k-series, I never get around to trying out overclocks. Honestly, the biggest change that I'd like is QuickSync support, which I don't have mainly because I have a P-series motherboard. I could just upgrade the motherboard, but where's the fun in that?

What I'm really curious about is whether there will be any R-series-based Mini-ITX motherboards! 65W might be a little too much for my Streacom passively-cooled case, but I could give it a shot.

And K models contain TSX.

I thought they didn't have it?

 

[Gikaseixas]

From various sites around the web it has a little bit of everything, including pwr
consumption. I'm not too excited about it to be honest.

 

[imported_bman]

Hopefully on Tuesday we get to see some reviews of laptops, want to see if Intel's claims of 50% battery are true. Really hope we see a Macbook pro with a Igzo screen and Haswell at WWDC.

 

[pcunite]

Looks like my i5-3570K purchase was a wise one ...

 

[SiliconWars]

I think us 2500K guys are still laughing.

 

[escrow4]

Looks like my 3930K was a better choice in the end. I'd be interested to see Anandtech do a comparison - Haswell vs hexa-cores, new and old.

 

[jpiniero]

GT3e is decent, esp compute, but $100 price difference for the mobile parts? That's even more than I had expected. Can't imagine anyone other than Apple will be interested.

 

[phillyman36]

When i called Microcenter today they said they should be on sale tomorrow. I may wait until Broadwell.

 

[oceanside]

Mild gains and temps that are even worse than IVY kills it for me. Looks like I'll have to wait and hope they don't decide to use paste under the hood on their enthusiast lineup.

 

[mikk]

And K models contain TSX.

Do you have a source?


Here is GT3e: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6993/intel-iris-pro-5200-graphics-review-core-i74950hq-tested


Big differences to A10-4600M.

 

[Racan]

And K models contain TSX.

No, they do not.

http://ark.intel.com/products/75123/Intel-Core-i7-4770K-Processor-8M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz

 

[Shephard]

So glad I got my 3570k for $170 AFTER taxes.

Haswell looks like the biggest disappoint ever!

I remember in early 2012 I was being told to wait for Haswell... LOL!

 

[SiliconWars]

Here is GT3e: http://www.anandtech.com/show/6993/intel-iris-pro-5200-graphics-review-core-i74950hq-tested


Big differences to A10-4600M.

Yeah about $300 on the chip alone. D:

 

[Homeles]

I think us 2500K guys are still laughing.

At what, exactly? The guys that held out, only to get a processor that's 10% faster?

At the end of the day, their processors will be faster faster than yours.

Yeah about $300 on the chip alone. D:

Performance comes at a premium. It's not exactly a secret.