Intel CPU confusion.

[radical1412]

Is there any possible reason for an ivybridge to be costly than an skylake. I've checked the prices for i5's. Were they originally priced higher?? 2

 

Also is there a guide anywhere explaing the details of the changes the processors have gone through for every architecture change? I really would appericiate anyone providing a guide or a link to one.

[Narigaur]

Check Intel ARK. You'll find the things you need there.

[radical1412]

Hey, Intel ark provides all the specs, but I'd like to know about the changes they have been making, how it actually increases performance, and by what amount. Can I find these on intel ark. I'm a noob so don't know much. That's why I'm trying to find a detailed guide or something. 

 

Also can you answer the actual question, that would be helpful.

[radical1412]

12 minutes ago, Narigaur said:

Check Intel ARK. You'll find the things you need there.

Hey, Intel ark provides all the specs, but I'd like to know about the changes they have been making, how it actually increases performance, and by what amount. Can I find these on intel ark. I'm a noob so don't know much. That's why I'm trying to find a detailed guide or something. 

 

Also can you answer the actual question, that would be helpful

[porina]

Pricing for Ivy Bridge is likely unreliable since it is long not for sale, and used pricing can vary a lot. Do note whatever people ask for, doesn't mean they get it.

 

For generation differences while something likely exists out there, I'm not sure where that would be. There are usually good write ups of each generation on sites like Anandtech, but it wont give you all the generations in an overview. Some things will benefit from new architectures more than others.

 

Personally, I never had an Ivy Bridge but assuming it is near enough the same as Sandy Bridge, going to Haswell got you a bunch of new instructions in AVX2 and FMA, which can give a nice boost to software using it. The refresh to Broadwell was less exciting apart from the novelty of 128MB L4 cache on the desktop parts. This can help some niche cases. On again we get to current Skylake. They tightened some instruction timings which provides a bit of a benefit, as well as bringing DDR4 ram to the mainstream.

[Mark77]

The highest tier of CPU's in any particular platform usually get 'expensive' when people realize their lower-end CPU's are a bit slow, and they want to upgrade but not commit to an entire new system.

 

And why not?  If you're sitting there with, say, a Celeron G1610 (one of the cheaper dual core Ivy Bridge CPU's), and you need a faster computer, buying an i7-3770 and slapping it on your existing motherboard  (if only a cheap board) is an extremely attractive proposition instead of basically buying a new machine with a Skylake which is barely any faster. 

 

 

[don_svetlio]

Performance-wise, Skylake is about 30% faster clock for clock.

[SLAYR]

38 minutes ago, rdical1412 said:

Is there any possible reason for an ivybridge to be costly than an skylake. I've checked the prices for i5's. Were they originally priced higher?? 2

 

Also is there a guide anywhere explaing the details of the changes the processors have gone through for every architecture change? I really would appericiate anyone providing a guide or a link to one.

Well there are core2duos that have a $300 msrp. It makes sense for the ivybridge cpus to be prices higher compared to the skylake because they are comperable in performance, so new manufacturing processes will make cpus cheaper just like anything else.

 

If you are looking for completely specific changes beyond lithography then you will most likely have to go work for intel and get classified info out of them.