Leaked Intel roadmap reveals additional details about upcoming processors

[Vicenarian]

claycc said:
It looks like Intel is planning to continue pushing out solid processors and now they seem to be attacking the mainstream to budget markets which is really going to hurt AMD if they can't come up with something decent to counter.

Exactly. AMD really seemed to have their stronghold in the area of budget processors, so yeah, if Intel can compete more in that area, it will definately boost their sales. I for one, am interested in the new core i5 line.

 

[Vicenarian]

Oh...nobody posted this yet but...

Will the i9 play crysis?

 

[klepto12]

dude crysis only uses 2 cores at most why would a 6 core processor help? its heavily dependent on the video card not the cpu.

 

[Afenix]

Hahah im so happy with my i7 920. As i see absolutely everyone firstly released VERY POWERFUL devices, and then they move on to lower, mid devices. For example i7 920, 950, 965, then i7 860, i5.. now i3.. and ATI released the 5000 series cards, the most powerful 5970, now they will be releasing energy efficient, mid quality cards.

 

[Basher]

Man, poor AMD. They're being "attacked" by the lack of 40nm GPU yield and now Intel is setting their sites on the lower end AMD CPU stronghold. Here's to hoping AMD get's their 5xxx series GPU supplies up...

 

[Inioch]

Here's me thinking, should I try the i5's when they come down in thermal and price.

 

[klepto12]

The i5 cpus are great and they are replacing the core 2 line plus there almost as powerful as the i7 cpus for a cheaper price the only thing i dont like is the intergrated pci e on the cpu which limits sli snd crossfire to one 16x and one 8x lane for graphics.

 

[lupinnktp]

finally a move towards higher fsb. kudos to intel for that. maybe there is a good reason to stick to it after all, despite all its dirty trick to downplay competitors

 

[IvanAwfulitch]

Vicenarian said:
Oh...nobody posted this yet but...

Will the i9 play crysis?

You need a lot more than a processor to play Crysis buddy.... My E6750 can play it, but I've got a 9800gtx+ and 2 gigs of 1066 DDR3 to help it along.

More on topic, I'm interested in the i7 line and perhaps the i9 when it gets a lot cheaper. Right now, that stuff is more along the lines of "techie toys" that aren't mainstreamed enough just yet. Once more people start upgrading and buying them they'll be a worthwhile upgrade and a cheaper purchase.

And as far as Intel competing with AMD goes, there really isn't much competition going on. AMD has their niche, and Intel has theirs. For the most part though, Intel's parts have been higher quality and higher performance. And while I do have a softspot for AMD, Intel is still the leader when it comes to new and improved technology in the processing core field.

 

[PUTALE]

mmh, looks like Intel will still maintain a fairly large lead over AMD. From the look of the things Intel is just revamp a little bit on the 9xx cpu with 1333 FSB. I guess AMD's 6 core could potentially getting some performance increase but I think the compnay won't be able to catch up with intel until probably the CPU/GPU where the company can have an eadge with AMD's technology.

 

[manintech]

the naming is very confusing, they should use something like core i2/i4/i6 to indicate dual/quad/hex cores

 

[levar]

I'm sure AMD will have some fun looking at this.

 

[Zenphic]

I'm just looking for Intel to release a Core CPU <$100! Otherwise, AMD is holding strong with their triple and quad cores at that price segment.

 

[ET3D]

I'm always interested at the low end, and I'll be waiting for these Pentiums and i3's to be benchmarked.

 

[AbsolutGaloot]

I'm surprised that most software hasn't caught on to using multi-core scaling. With the way that technology is rocketing ahead, one would imagine that software companies would start looking into some sort of scaling mechanism for their product to be able to use how ever many cores are available.