Intel's Ivy Bridge Architecture Exposed

[Lil' ½ Dead]

Sandy Bridge brought about a significant increase in CPU performance, but Ivy seems almost entirely dedicated to addressing Intel's aspirations in graphics. With two architectures in a row focused on improving GPU performance, I do wonder if we might see this trend continue with Haswell. Intel implied that upward scalability was a key goal of the Ivy Bridge GPU design, perhaps we will see that happen in 2013.

Full Article: http://www.anandtech.com/show/4830/i...ecture-exposed

[Lil' ½ Dead]

Ivy Bridge gets 1.4 billion transistors and More powerful IGP

Intel has released some more concrete facts during IDF 2011 and it has confirmed that the number of transistors has increased by 20% since Sandy Bridge. Of the 1.4 billion transistors found in the circuit many of the new transistors are put in the new DirectX 11-compatible graphics circuit.

http://www.nordichardware.com/news/6...n-the-gpu.html

[Earthmonger]

This won't hold true of all the Ivy Bridge chips, will it? Not all of us give a damn about a processor's integrated graphics engine. I want a faster chip. Toss the GPU and add another core.

[Drdeath]

This won't hold true of all the Ivy Bridge chips, will it? Not all of us give a damn about a processor's integrated graphics engine. I want a faster chip. Toss the GPU and add another core.

Less than 2% of all computer users are performance Junkies. AMD has geared for mainstream with Zacate, Llano and soon to come Bulldozer. Intel is seeing AMD in the mirror. Although Intel and AMD want to be king of performance, you will soon see the focus on efficiency and price with the destop market slowing down and the mobile/ iPad market increasing.

[Doctor_Death]

There's been a lot of problems with ipads so I do not believe that statement, I also do not believe that desktops will die anytime soon. As far as King of the Hill how many people use LN2 ? so lets get real here, Intel chips are faster out of the box, always have been and most likely always will be, although it would be nice to see AMD regain the crown again.

[aryan51]

it will be a super long time before desktops die mobile computers always get the hand me downs

[Deton]

die or not but soon or later we won't be able to overclock them any more.

[Earthmonger]

As far as King of the Hill how many people use LN2 ?

That right there is the reason I don't give a rat's arse for LN2, OC dragracing, or HWBot benchmarking. I run my systems 24/7. How is LN2 going to help me? How is running a ludicrous OC going to keep my chip alive beyond a week? I'll stick with my moderate, stable overclocks and simple WaCo.

[alan1476]

If desktops die, I will be have a house full of dead computers. Oh no. I cant stand lappys, or Pads, or trying to post from my freakin Iphone.

[Irocing]

Hologram and a remote.
How do you overclock and water cool that

Not that far away.

Later