Today Intel Ivy Bridge is now official, the worlds first 22 nanometer processor that is built on their Sandy Bridge architecture. Besides the sparkling fresh manufacturing process and lower power consumption, one of it’s other features is quite an improved integrated graphics circuit.
Intel’s Tick-Tock is a model that most are familliar with. For every Tock they introduce a new architecture on an already proven manufacturing process, while with a Tick they move the architecture in question to a new manufacturing process. A Tick-Tock shouldn’t take more than 24 months which Intel hasn’t been able to fully live up to, but despite this they still have an unchallenged advantage on the market against every company in the semiconductor industry. Intel never introduces a new architecture on a completely new manufacturing process simply because the risks are too big, which is something their main competitor had to learn during last year.
Intel moves Sandy Bridge to the new 22 nanometer technology and dubbed the Ivy Bridge
A model like Tick-Tock isn’t easy to keep up with, instead it’s a big challenge even for a giant like Intel. Even when they introduce new architectures, they recycle many of the design blocks from earlier architectures to save money but most of all time, to make such an aggressive model even possible. So whether it’s a Tick or a Tock we’re talking about, it’s always a combination of a little old and a little new.
When they now move a design to a smaller manufacturing process we come to the point when we get to see something new, and that is what we will take a closer look in our tests of the third generations Core i-processor – Ivy Bridge. Before we do that there will as usual be a thorough walkthrough of the architecture and the new manufacturing process.
Great review guys, i would really love to see you do much more of them =]
A really great review, good job. Waiting to get my hands on it… but don’t know when it will arrive in Brazil
Glad you liked it đ
We hope the new translators will have time for more of these.
You used DDR3-1333 for AMD APU when it’s known that those processors need faster RAM to reach top performance, unlike Intel’s which don’t scale up accordingly. As it is, this is a very Intel-biased review.
[quote name=”Taki R”]You used DDR3-1333 for AMD APU when it’s known that those processors need faster RAM to reach top performance, unlike Intel’s which don’t scale up accordingly. As it is, this is a very Intel-biased review.[/quote]If you’re talking about CPU performance, the difference is very much negligible. I can agree however if we’re talking GPU-performance, where may I add, even Ivy Bridge HD 4000 benefits from higher RAM-clocks as well so it’s pretty much apples-to-apples in that regard. We will be revising our testing methodology during the summer, so we’ll be taking all of these things into close consideration… LĂ€s hela »
It seem Intel will beat AMD more with this line of new generation processor. It is faster and consume less power than sandy bridge and trinity. Core per core / clock per clock basis.
I really like to know though the performance and efficiency compare to AMD trinity.
Ă realmente incrĂvel todo esse progresso/evolução da INTEL.
BRASIL – CRATO – CEARĂ
Ă realmente incrĂvel todo esse progresso/evolução da INTEL.
BRASIL – CRATO – CEARĂ
What happens if I put a 125w TDP CPU on a 95w motherboard? If I have a quad-core CPU and disable 2 cores will my CPU fit in the 95w TDP?