Rumor: Ivy Bridge to offer 20% boost over Sandy Bridge

Intel's latest 32nm Sandy Bridge processors will eventually be succeeded by next-generation Ivy Bridge processors, which will be manufactured using a 22nm process. The latter will offer a significant performance boost over the former, according to internal Intel documents with internal performance estimates seen by VR-Zone:

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hmmm i guess ill have to hold off on a new processor till this comes... i'll get it the day it comes out and be an early adopter, no problem right? coolface.jpg

I wonder what socket they are going to use?

Oh, it'll be a new socket fer sure, mcmurphy12. That's how Intel and the mobo manufacturer's keep each other in business.

Can't believe they're already talking about the next generation of processors and Sandy Bridge has been out for what - a couple of months? And a faulty release at that.

Darn it! I kind of figured that would happen as they introduced the new socket for the Sandy Bridge series.

Play the waiting game forever!

Hope they stick with 1155... while I don't buy new computers on a regular basis, getting so tired of a new socket every year... lol. It also costs motherboard manufacturers more to be designing new motherboards every time, while leeching sales from current pre-existing motherboards, though at least they'll always have the early adopters and last place folks buying from both ends. =o

I kinda doubt that they will introduce a new socket for Ivy Bridge. They tend to keep sockets for their family of processors. And by family, I mean architecture design, not die shrinks and enhancements.

Barely a month Tom. But you're right on both accounts. Having been one on the fence in terms of waiting for SB, I am glad I just picked up an i5-760 for cheap. Though who knows when IB will be coming out.

As I understand it Ivy Bridge will still be Socket 1155, but there are reports that it will require a different motherboard. Still, a 20% increase over Sandy Bridge is pretty impressive.

Fudzilla

Was about to post that, but you beat me to it . And that is indeed impressive results over an already impressive SB imo.

BTW SB have no faults of its own (sans the usual errata) but the real issue was with the possibility of SATA ports failure, and as long as they are replacing motherboards for free, I don't see any issue with it.

Now with sockets, I don't like the situation that Intel is now carrying two sockets for each generation, but except this I see no issue with introduction of new socket with each 'tock'. 30% graphics performance improvement sound more interesting to me, I don't think nVidia/AMD can provide such significant improvement (in the lower segments as well) provided that Intel's claims are true. So, at least in the mobile sector my next notebook won't need any discrete GPU to provide 'reasonably decent' performance.

Intel's Tick release is usually compatible with existing boards. The hexacore i7's were. But it is intel after all, nobody will know for sure.

This is what I am waiting for as my next upgrade. SB didn't offer enough of an improvement to Nehalem i'm on a 920 @ 3.6

This way I get a 30-40% IPC boost aswell as PCI Express 3.0

I don't bother with incremental upgrades anymore stop doing that once I got into my 20's.

Whats the surprise here? The same happened with the i3-5-7 they all came pretty close with different sockets. We are in the technology industry, what surprises me is that you are surprised =P

How many times did you not buy something that at the next month you were kicking yourself because something better, cheaper and meaner came out?

Thought is was going to be 'Socket 2011' or 1355?

It's supposed to be "LGA2011" for the high end. (Or so says "pixel smashers'; http://pixelsmashers.com/?p=1250 Perhaps 4 channel RAM.

If you take a minute to think about it, it all makes perfect sense. The more you expect the CPU to do, the more wires you're going to have to run to it, to get the more stuff done. That what the extra pins are mostly for in LGA1366, the 3rd RAM channel.

Yawn.

Intel and their stupid b$ products just make me sick.

They continuously bring out "new" products that are "sooooo fast". Not to mention the "obvious" percentual increase in performance.

What a laugh riot !

Intel has been selling their pissy 1.8 Celeron as entry level in the "Rest Of World" segment for more than three years !

I can buy an Athlon II 260 at the same price point but nooooo users still buy and support Intel.

'nuff said.

Now it appears that Ivy Bridge may be compatiable with H67 and P67 chipsets after all. Per Fudzilla Ivy Bridge 22nm works with H67 and P67.

Then you should be out drivin' the old AMD Bulldozer, in the rest of this pipe dream.


And BTW, why is it always phrased that you "can buy"? With the the time it took to pump out all this fanboi bluster, you could have ordered a half dozen from New egg.