December 5, 2011

Ivy Bridge Specifications and Overview

Intel's upcoming Ivy Bridge CPUs lineups are out here. I have been much been waiting for this as this is the new technology from Intel going towards the 22nm die shrink. Ivy bridge will have a socket compatible with Sandy Bridge which will require a BIOS update.
These are the specifications of the standard frequencies:

SKUi7-3770Ki7-3770i5-3570Ki5-3570i5-3550i5-3470i5-3450i5-3330
Core/Thread Count4/84/84/44/44/44/44/44/4
Frequency (GHz)3.53.43.43.43.33.23.13.0
Max SC Turbo (GHz)3.93.93.83.83.73.63.53.2
L3 Cache8MB8MB6MB6MB6MB6MB6MB6MB
GraphicsHD 4000HD 4000HD 4000HD 2500HD 2500HD 2500HD 2500HD 2500
Graphics Frequency (MHz)650650650650650650650650
Max Graphics Turbo (MHz)11501150115011501150110011001050
Memory Support1600MHz and 1333MHz DDR3
TDP77W77W77W77W77W77W77W77W
VT-d X XXX  
TXT X XXX  
AES-NIXXXXXXXX
SIPP X XXX  
vPro X XXX  
These CPUs pretty much look similar to the old Sandy Bridge ones. The 3770K and the 3770 have the difference of the 'K' which is an unlocked multiplier. There are in all five i5s in the list. The best thing about the Ivy Bridge is it uses 77W TPD even at 3.5GHz. That is 19% less.
So there isn't a big surprise in the lineups, but the mobile series would the ones which would be interesting to see because of the less power usage.