You all thought i7 was a breakthrough, you ain't seen nothing yet. Due out 2010 - 2011, Intel Sandy Bridge will be made on a 32nm manufacturing process. The specs are below and as you can tell they are very impressive.> 4 GHz clock speed
> 4 to 8 cores
> Without SSE: 8 DP GFLOPS/core (2 DP FP/clock), 32-64 DP GFLOPS/processor.
> With SSE: 28 DP GFLOPS/core (7 DP FP/clock), 112-224 DP GFLOPS/processor.
> 32 KB L1 cache/core, (3 clocks).
> 512 KB L2 cache/core, (9 clocks).
> 2-3 MB L3 cache/core (8-24 MB total) (33 clocks), most likely pooled and dynamically allocated among the cores.
> 64 bytes cache line width.
> 256 bytes/cycle Ring bus bandwidth. The ring bus connects the cores.
> 0-512 MB GDDR / fast DRAM.
> 64 GB/s GDDR / fast DRAM memory bandwidth.
> 17 GB/s memory bandwidth per QuickPath link with 50 ns latency.
Impressive no? These are expected to be 20 - 40% faster than the i7's and with 4Ghz stock clocks expect some overclocking records to be broken, and yes you have seen right, Sandy Bridge will have a built in GPU with up to half a Gig of memory. Although it has come to my attention that this will not be like the refresh of the Nehalem which will have a separate CPU and GPU. Sandy Bridge will have a hybrid core, with both CPU and GPU combined, very fancy I think.
AMD also have something spectacular up their sleeve but are keeping it very tight lipped, will try and get some info in the near future.
If anyone has any more info on either this or the AMD equivalent, or if you just want to share your opinion then give me a comment.
1 comments:
Ok if your right I'm so gonna hold of on my next upgrade!
AMD will never have something spectacular apart from they're price's. Oh they did have one chip a few years ago but from where I'm standing its been going down hill for them ever since.
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