We get an early glimpse of the potential of the upcoming Ivy Bridge CPUs through initial benchmarks.
With the Intel's Ivy Bridge set to release around
April 2012, Intel has reportedly begun sending official Ivy Bridge performance expectations to its partners, manufacturers and resellers. Xbit-labs has published a set of slides that are supposedly from Intel, but are not sanctioned for general public consumption. These could give us an early glimpse of what type of performance we might expect when Ivy Bridge hits the market.
The charts show the
Intel Core i7-3770, which is a has 4 cores (8 threads) at 3.40 GHz, with 8MB L3 cache going up against the current Core i7-2600 with similar specifications.
Image source: Xbit-labs
According to the chart, there is an improvement across the board with the new Core i7-3770 processor. Intel states the improvement is due to improved architecture and a higher turbo boost performance. This may be attributed to the
new 22nm 3D Tri-Gate technology utilized with the upcoming processors.
- 7% improvement in SYSmark 2012 score
- 14% improvement in HDXPRT 2011 score
- 15% improvement in Cinebench 11.5 score
- 13% improvement in ProShow Gold 4.5 results
- 25% improvement in Excel 2010 performance
Image source: Xbit-labs
The charts also show the improvement Intel's HD Graphics 4000 offers over current gen integrated graphics. The improved HD Graphics 4000 features an enhanced AVX acceleration, support for DX11 & OpenCL 1.1, along with PCI-Express Gen 3.0.
- 56% faster performance in ArcSoft Media Expresso
- 192% higher overall 3DMark Vantage Performance Preset - Score
- 17% faster performance in 3DMark Vantage Performance Preset - CPU benchmark
- 199% faster performance in 3DMark Vantage Performance Preset - GPU benchmark
Stay tuned as hopefully more details trickle out on what type of gaming performance can be expected with the new Ivy Bridge processors.
and amazingly, its available in two flavors
More Details on Ivy Bridge Models "S" and "T" Emerge
Leaked details point to possible "T" and "S" models of Ivy Bridge CPUs.
With the
The First Intel Ivy Bridge CPU Clock Speeds and More story from earlier this week, we caught some of the early details of the first Ivy Bridge chips, which is
set to release in April 2012. Now, with some more leaked information from Chinese site Corecn, via German site ComputerBase, we find out more information on S and T model numbers.
The table provides a full listing of remaining eight upcoming models, including model number, base frequency, cache size, cores/threads, memory speed, turbo boost speeds, Intel HD graphics, frequency / dynamic frequency and TDP ratings. It appears that Ivy Bridge will have similar clock speeds to current generation Sandy Bridge CPUs, just with a
lower TDP based on Intel's transition to 22 nm from 32 nm transistor design.
Processor |
Base Frequency (GHz) |
Total Cache (MB) |
Cores / Threads |
Memory Speed Support (DDR3) |
Turbo Boost max single core (GHz) |
Intel HD Graphics |
Frequency / Dynamic Frequency (MHz) |
TDP (W) |
Core i7-3770S |
3.10 |
8 |
4 / 8 |
1600, 1333 |
3.90 |
4000 |
650/1150 |
65 |
Core i7-3770T |
2.50 |
8 |
4 / 8 |
1600, 1333 |
3.70 |
4000 |
650/1150 |
45 |
Core i5-3570S |
3.10 |
6 |
4 / 4 |
1600, 1333 |
3.80 |
2500 |
650/1150 |
65 |
Core i5-3570T |
2.30 |
6 |
4 / 4 |
1600, 1333 |
3.30 |
2500 |
650/1150 |
45 |
Core i5-3550S |
3.00 |
6 |
4 / 4 |
1600, 1333 |
3.70 |
2500 |
650/1150 |
65 |
Core i5-3475S |
2.90 |
6 |
4 / 4 |
1600, 1333 |
3.60 |
4000 |
650/1100 |
65 |
Core i5-3470S |
2.90 |
6 |
4 / 4 |
1600, 1333 |
3.60 |
2500 |
650/1100 |
65 |
Core i5-3470T |
2.90 |
3 |
2 / 4 |
1600, 1333 |
3.60 |
2500 |
650/1100 |
35 |
Core i5-3450S |
2.80 |
6 |
4 / 4 |
1600, 1333 |
3.50 |
2500 |
650/1100 |
65 |
Core i5-3330S |
2.70 |
6 |
4 / 4 |
1600, 1333 |
3.20 |
2500 |
650/1050 |
65 |
S - Performance-optimized (
low power with 65W TDP), T – Power-optimized (
ultra low power with 35-45W TDP)
another nail to the Green's coffin.