Intel Broadwell out "Before Christmas"

[foofighterjim]

Intel's new Broadwell CPUs will be available before Christmas. Intel's beefy Broadwell CPU set to supercharge PCs by Christmas | News | TechRadar Does anyone know how much of an improvement this will be over Haswell?

[JackCPickup]

Quite a large boost to GPU performance, and a decent L4 cache for it.

DDR4 compatible.

8-core.

Greater performance per wattage, but, apparently the CPU will only see a 100-200MHz improvement, but may possibly benefit from the L4 cache.

 

Jack

[foofighterjim]

Good stuff, I may put my media PC upgrade back until this is out then.

[Arthur]

Intel delays desktop, high-performance ‘Broadwell’ chips to next May or June « Kit Guru

 

Although Intel Corp. is on track to ship low-power mobile versions of the code-named Broadwell microprocessors this September, the company plans to significantly postpone introduction of high-performance and desktop flavours of the new chips. Instead of releasing the first Broadwell-K processors for enthusiasts in late 2014, the chip giant now plans to launch them in mid-2015.

 

The most powerful models of Intel Broadwell microprocessors for client PCs will feature up to four x86 cores with Hyper-Threading, Iris Pro graphics processors with up to 48 execution units, up to 8MB of L3 cache, up to 128MB of high-speed eDRAM off-die cache, dual-channel DDR3 memory controllers and so on. The chips are expected to be available in BGA and LGA1150 form-factors.