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

If Ivy Bridge CPUs are compatible with the P67/H67 platform, I guess we're not going to see the successor of Socket 1366 anytime soon. With the recall of Sandy Bridge motherboards by various manufacturers, I'll probably end up waiting for Ivy Bridge to come out in terms of my next PC upgrade.

That's what I though. Only the Tock requires a new socket, and there's a reason why. Intel does more then add cores and cache to the same architecture. So why would people complain in the first place?

There were reports circulating for a while that a new motherboard would be required, doesn't appear so at this point in time. Should make anyone that has already invested in a socket 1155 motherboard feel a lot better. Saw your earlier post on the subject, looks like you made the right call on this one

OK, "Ivy Bridge" is primarily about the 22nm process. When Intel jumped from 65nm to 45mn, I believe that some of the later 65nm boards, when fitted with an updated BIOS, accommodated the newer 45nm CPUs.

In any event, I'm not sure why everybody's thinking that it's going to be absolutely one way, (alI Ivy Bridge fits only 1155 sockets) or the other, (All Ivy Bridge gets a new socket). First and foremost, Ivy bridge is about shrinking the manufacturing process but......

Intel LGA1156 and LGA1366 coexist at the present time, each with a specific purpose. LGA 1366's higher calling, is its tri-channel RAM. Nothing on the market approaches it's memory bandwidth. That being said, I'm sure that RAM clock speed is beginning to approach theoretical limits, the same way that CPU clock speed has been for some time. With CPU you have to change the architecture to do more per clock cycle, and drop the clock speed. With RAM the same thing could be accomplished by maintaining the same clock speed, and jacking up the bit access number. This is already being done with graphics memory.

So, rumors of an "LGA 2011" socket are probably as much fact as they are speculation. The extra pins would be needed for the also rumored to be coming >> 4 << channel RAM.

The novel thing that was noted about Sandy Bridge's release, is that it reversed precedent, by offering main stream parts first, with perhaps enthusiast parts to come later.

I frankly don't see why Ivy Bridge wouldn't follow the "same path". Phase in new narrow process CPUs to existing socket / chipsets, then follow up with what would have to be a spectacular jump in available performance, 22nm CPUs hooked up to 4 channel RAM. And yeah, you'd obviously have to change the socket for that.

Whats the point of these faster processors? except for a few gameys, researchers etc most (90%?) business users have all the CPU they need .. they could do with better gfx and more /faster I/O,but they are all full up with CPU. Give people a Celeron with 2gb of on chip cache and let the jaws drop.. couple that with PcIE SSD and you have a real Parrot-Dime shift. They gotta keep those money presses rolling.

The first (albeit largely pointless) Ivy Bridge benchmark ( 1.8GHz 2-core/4-thread). B0 stepping.

Lynnfield (LGA1156) launched with B1 stepping, Bloomfield (LGA1366) with C0 and Sandy Bridge with D0