Source: http://wccftech.com/intels-3rd-generation-sandy-bridgee-details-reveal-clock-speeds-model-numbers/
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Details of the first three Intel Sandy Bridge-E Processors have been revealed. The Sandy Bridge-E (LGA 2011) platform will replace the older LGA1366 Core i7 Processors. According to our previous roadmap details (here), Sandy Bridge-E will fall under “Extreme” and “Premium Performance” branding.
The “Extreme” variants will be 6-8 Core models with 480 €+ Price range while the Premium CPU’s will come with 4-6 Cores and fall somewhere near the 250 € price. Intel also plans to release 8-12 Core variants of Sandy Bridge-E Processors but those will be kept limited to Server usage until desktop release is required.
The Details reveal Core i7 3000 series badge for the new Sandy Bridge-E Processors which makes them the 3rd generation Core of the Sandy bridge Family. The Core i7 3960X Extreme Edition is a Six Core model with 12 threads and Hyper Threading Enabled with 15MB L3 Cache, It’ll be stock clocked at 3.30Ghz which can turbo upto 3.90Ghz.
Next up is the Core i7 3930K (Unlocked Multiplier) which is also a 6 Core variant with 12 threads with a clock speed 100mhz lesser than the i7 3960X of 3.20Ghz and turbo of 3.80Ghz. L3 Cache is also cut down to 12MB. Last up is the Core i7 3820 which is a premium usage oriented model 4 Cores and 8 threads, Stock speed of 3.60 which can turbo to 3.80Ghz and 10MB L3 Cache, Overclocking is limited because of locked multiplier.
All CPU’s will feature quad-channel DDR3 integrated memory controllers (IMCs), PCI-e 3.0 Compatibility and multiple x16 PCI-e lanes. More details on Intel’s Sandy Bridge-E CPU’s below:
-The road map image makes no mention of more than 6 cores
Read the first sentence of the article I quoted.
Back to reality... As I am about six or seven neurons away from determining that BD has no hope in hell
No new info, yet all the sudden we have people making these enlightened assumptions about how many neurons it takes to bulldoze a path to hell. Does any of it make any sense? SB-E will be expensive as hell. We already knew that. I doubt the 3820 will be less than $300. Even if it is I lol @ 4 channel memory and a $200 motherboard. For what purpose would any of that serve? It still aint gonna bitcoin mine faster than a gpu.
You can blame any hope that BD can match or beat Intel clock for clock or in overall performance on all of those fake benchmarks that have been coming out.
AMD is trying to carve out a new niche rather than try to be better at Intel at what Intel is good at. It worked when the Athlon 64 brought us the IMC but the 64-bit thing didn't do all that much for AMD. Let's see if the whole ALU scheme works out for them. Personally, I have my doubts given the way Intel's market share can influence the way software is developed.
No new info, yet all the sudden we have people making these enlightened assumptions about how many neurons it takes to bulldoze a path to hell. Does any of it make any sense? SB-E will be expensive as hell. We already knew that. I doubt the 3820 will be less than $300. Even if it is I lol @ 4 channel memory and a $200 motherboard. For what purpose would any of that serve? It still aint gonna bitcoin mine faster than a gpu.
You obviously dont get it because most of the stress I put my computer through is gpu stress. And it is probably the same for most people, but that wont stop them from making poor assumptions and rushing out to hand money to intel.
I've been ready to buy this thing for over 5 months now.
I've been ready to buy this thing for over 5 months now.
if it will cost far more and if BD performs similarly to the 990x?
I hate to break it to all the people who think that computers are only used for blasting alien heads off that there are lots of computer users out there like me who actually work on their computers to make their income.
Dude, you are soooooooooooooooooo off base that it's scary. We recently determined as closely as possible in another thread here that there were MAX 9 million hard core gamers
I lol'd.
It would be interesting to find out whether there are more people who make a living actually pushing their CPUs to the max or gamers who like buying cutting-edge hardware. I suspect there are, in fact, more gamers than individuals who actually do profit from having faster hardware.
If there are no real arch improvements over SB, then it should perform similarly to the 990x? Little less clock speed, little more IPC? I mean I'm sure it will have great performance, but how does this endanger BD at all if it will cost far more and if BD performs similarly to the 990x?
Actually, the only thing that I took seriously from that Turkish numbskull was his statement that BD was crap. Usually when people admit that they've punked you they tell you the truth at the end. I'm all for AMD establishing a great niche in the low and mid range... however that market interests me about as much as a threesome with Betty White and Roseanne Barr. I have said it ad nauseum and I'll say it again: I want a top end (reasonably affordable) system that will stay close to state of the art for at least 2 and possibly 3 years. I may be a stubborn doughhead but I'm still leaving the door open for BD to be that CPU. It's just not that likely.
Actually I'm of completely the opposite opinion. After many years in the corp world I've seen entire floors crammed full of "consumer-CPU" based workstations being used in publishing, etc. Let's not discount the untold tens of millions of telecommuters and at home freelancers (like me) around the world.
I'm firmly convinced that the estimated 0.6% or so of the computer user installed base that's hardcore gamers may be even a tinier percentage. It's not the best economy out there... how many people can justify the expenditure required to stay up to the second in the gaming hardware wars? Especially in the Third World?
Let's not discount the untold tens of millions of telecommuters and at home freelancers (like me) around the world.
If there are no real arch improvements over SB, then it should perform similarly to the 990x? Little less clock speed, little more IPC? I mean I'm sure it will have great performance, but how does this endanger BD at all if it will cost far more and if BD performs similarly to the 990x?
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All of those tens of millions of freelancers need the cutting edge processor with 16+ gigabytes of ram?
That explains while quite a few freelancers have MacBooks ... oh wait ...
So in your opinion, a 6 core SB-E will perform similarly to a 6 core westmere? And on top of that you expect BD to match a 6 core (12 thread) SB-E?
Wow.
It seems that many of you guys are too busy playing shootemups to actually do any work on your PCs, especially Photoshop. FYI, CPU and RAM are paramount if you're doing serious image work. Do what I had to do last month: Take a 3.2 GB file with over a hundred layers, apply blurs to various layers then convert the whole thing full size to .jpg. My i7 940 12GB RAM almost choked to death on it. Try doing that on an i3!