I payed roughly 50% more for my E6600 than I did for my 4670. And the 4670 die is bigger.
And thats not even including inflation in the factor to the E6600 price.
The chip dies are getting smaller though:
But the chip price has not gone down correspondingly. We'll see with Broadwell, but somehow I suspect it will be more expensive per die area than e.g. Nahalem or SB.
I payed roughly 50% more for my E6600 than I did for my 4670. And the 4670 die is bigger.
And thats not even including inflation in the factor to the E6600 price.
Serious but OT question: what do people do with an 8 core CPU?
Rendering, video editing, sound editing, virtualization, porn
Serious but OT question: what do people do with an 8 core CPU?
22nm is so last year, yawn.
My next chip will be 14nm or bust. Don't care if they solder it or not, can bring my own CLU to the party.
It'd be nice if 14nm would actually come out. The wait's been killer.22nm is so last year, yawn.
My next chip will be 14nm or bust. Don't care if they solder it or not, can bring my own CLU to the party.
Lets see how the 14nm 6-Core will be priced.
As I recall we didn't see much price change with the transition of Sandy Bridge-E to Ivy Bridge-E. (In fact, didn't the i7- 4820K actually cost more money than the i7-3820?) So I wonder if Broadwell-E will be the same way?
Maybe Skylake-E will be the 14nm where we see another price break?
All those stock speeds tell you is what they were able to achieve to fit within 140W TDP. What will matter is what they overclock to. Also I'm not sure how you come up with more cost, looks like 6c will be coming down.Clock speed drops compared to IB-E and more cost? That really isn't very impressive.
The LGA 2011/HEDT platform is skipping Skylake-E and Cannonlake-E for Icelake-E.I wish socket LGA 2011-3 would support Skylake-E, but some will change as per usual. Otherwise, SL-E should be an awesome CPU (w/AVX 3.X); though I wouldn't expect a price break.
Well close to $399 as i have said, i guess those are 8-core dies. It seams Intel STILL doesn't want more people buying the HEAD platform. . . .
My next chip will be 14nm or bust. Don't care if they solder it or not, can bring my own CLU to the party.
I expect it to go down eventually. There's just a lot of factors involved that can bring that price drop sooner or later. Viable EUV for instance could seriously help lower costs, as could AMD returning to relevance, and how high ARM is able to scale up their designs. 450mm will surface eventually as well. I'm expecting things to change sometime around "late" 10nm or "early" 7nm. That date's awfully fluid, though, which is why I'm putting it in terms of nodes.I dont really expect prices to go down in absolute dollars. But performance is still going up, albeit slowly, and the inflation adjusted price is coming down, so I dont see a problem with prices.
The LGA 2011/HEDT platform is skipping Skylake-E and Cannonlake-E for Icelake-E.
LGA 2011-3 (Haswell-E) (2015) -> LGA 2011-3 (Broadwell-E) (2016) -> LGA 2011-X (Icelake-E) (2017)
LGA 115x (Skylake) (2015) -> LGA 115x (Cannonlake) (2016) -> LGA 1xxx (Icelake) (2017)
Icelake is apparently on something new but I can't get the Carbon soot out of my ears.
Unfortunately, girlfriends are expensive, so it looks like I won't be upgrading until next year. I think I'm going to get BDW-E, although that will depend on what Skylake ends up looking like, and what both platforms cost.My 4930K (along with the rest of my desktop, more or less) suffered a fatal accident.
Looks like I'll be building a new system this fall, and at the heart of it will probably be the lowest-end 6 core HSW-E.
Unfortunately, girlfriends are expensive, so it looks like I won't be upgrading until next year. I think I'm going to get BDW-E, although that will depend on what Skylake ends up looking like, and what both platforms cost.
If AMD has something to replace their aging 8350, I might look into that. I've got plenty of time to sit back and watch things develop. I'm not in any rush to replace this i5-750 system I picked up for $200.