Ivy Bridge-E Rumors/Confirmations

[tengarp]

I just started this topic in case you guys had some input as to what ivy bridge-E might be like, release dates, socket, core counts, etc. All I know is that there might be more than 6 cores, it and it might be coming at around Q3. If you guys have any knowledge o rumors feel free to post it below :D

[skullbringer]

There will be no big changes compared to Sandy Bridge E.

Still 4 to 6 cores (not 8), 15 MB cache, LGA2011 socket, TDP of 130W.

But performance increase by changing the manufacturing technology from 32nm to 22nm , just like from sandy bridge to ivy bridge (normal). Same space, but more transistors.

Furter more PCIe 3.0 support, better storage controller, Quad Channel controller (supporting 4 sticks per channel) with an effictive clock of 1866MHz.

Launch is announced for Q3 2012, but it would make sense to launch them still before Haswell (announced Q2 2012), due to the fact that it's still Ivy-Bridge...

[mnm0710]

but it would make sense to launch them still before Haswell (announced Q2 2012)' date=' due to the fact that it's still Ivy-Bridge... [/quote']

I don't think I agree with this. I mean Ivy Bridge-E and Haswell are still appealing to 2 different markets so it doesn't really matter which is a newer architecture or not (I guess unless it was something revolutionary and completely insane). I don't think Haswell is going to make that much of a difference to where people who need 6 cores or the ability to have 64GB of RAM will wait until Haswell E you know? Just my thoughts.

[skullbringer]

Can agree with that...

[tengarp]

cool, thanks for replying guys

[Eric1024]

I wouldn't be so sure of the 6-core limit, I've read everything from 8 cores on the consumer chip up to 12, but who knows how much of that is true. Either way, the fact of the matter is that IB cores consume less power than SB cores *and* IB is produced on 22nm instead of 32nm, so *theoretically* putting more cores on the same die size within the same power envelope would be very feasible, but weather or not they will keep the high-count silicon for the xeons is yet to be seen.

[tengarp]

There are rumors wandering around claiming the supposed 3980x will be an octo-core. I am hoping that's true. If there's an 8-core SB-E, there will surely be an 8-core IB-E. According to other rumors/leaks, Intel is planning a 12-core EP processor as well.

I think that something like an 8 core processor that isnt a xeon would be great. You could overclock it and it would be awesome for rendering movies.

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Just switching from the crappy TIM used in ivy bridge would be an improvement.

[christoi]

Same as the shift from Sandy to Ivy, there probably won't be much of an improvement in terms of performance. Power consumption will probably go down due to the 22nm manufacturing process, along with minor architectural improvement that yields 5-10% increase in IPC.

Probably also an updated chipset to go with it, though I can't think of any new features they would plan to add to it.

[Dragon_Cannon]

I read something a while ago about how Intel are not impressed by the amount of power phases that are on motherboards so they were going to integrate that into the CPU itself. The article that I read talked about they were going to incorporate a core based designed with 16 cores. Each of these cores had twenty power phases which will give the chip and on board 320 power phase design.

Intel might be throwing this onto the Ivy Bridge-E chips.