Compared to a current notebook, equipped with Nvidia Geforce 310M that was - that a small-GPU - was Sandy Bridge at the same speed and completely liquid. To recall the future processors Sandy Bridge will be engraved in 32nm and will use a new socket: LGA 1155. These CPUs should not be compatible with existing cards using the LGA 1156. Benefit Intel to launch a new series of chipsets with a first step, according to the latest rumors, P67, H67 and Q67. For now, they still do not have a USB 3.0 controller. The motherboard manufacturers will therefore again obliged to go through additional chips. The S-ATA 6 Gbps will by cons of the game, but only two ports while the chipset supports a total of six (the others will therefore only S-ATA 3 Gbps). To accompany the launch, Asus has seen the big picture in terms of functionality.
Possible by the Sandy Bridge architecture to communicate with the CPU and GPU cores together on the L3 cache. The cores communicate via a sort of ring bus together. The requests from CPU and GPU units should not get in your way. In addition, all calculators use Intel's Turbo Boost. Previously it was given for the GPU only for some mobile models.
Indeed, all maps will have the manufacturer, serial, BIOS UEFI (Asus calls always oddly EFI). In addition, some of them will receive a digital power stage Digi +, torque TPU / EPU and a Bluetooth module. Attention, it was reported initially that all models involved were sold by these three points, but we have since learned that this would of course not the case for entry-level models that hide among the fifteen references to be proposed by Asus. We therefore decided to analyze in detail the features that are offered, along with four models that have been presented more thoroughly: the P8P67 Pro Deluxe, the Sabertooth, and finally P67 Maximus Extreme IV. The entry will consist of Core chips i3 3.1 and 3.3 GHz, 3 MB L3 cache, and four logical cores (two physical cores and hyperthreading). I5 line will also have four hearts, four physical cores, without Hyperthreading. The frequencies are similar, but rises to 6 MB cache finally, there will be a model for Core i7, peaking at 3.2 GHz, but it will have four physical cores and Hyperthreading, with 8 MB of cache.
We know that Sandy Bridge provides a set of instructions called Advanced Vector Extension whose objective is to expedite calculations audio / video, 3D and scientific (read: Sandy Bridge will reach the end of the year ), and it integrates a management system of its consumption, but it is not known yet what will be the thermal envelope of these processors. Intel promised it will be much more powerful than the current one: This could perhaps allow Apple to drop the Core 2 Duo on the Mac mini and MacBook, which it was obliged to keep to use an NVIDIA chipset and does not degrade the graphics performance of its entry-level models.
Sandy Bridge on Intel
Already present in the first Core i7 i5 and the graphics chip (12 calculation units, DirectX 10) is now fully integrated into the die of the processor. This proximity allows us to improve the efficient exchange of information between CPU and GPU, through a unified cache and organized in a ring ("ring"). The performances are thereby logically increased and now enjoy the famous TurboBoost introduces the architecture of the first Nehalem Core i. In practice, we found the fluidity of a game like Starcraft 2, while the processor is instructed to encode a video of the current action.
Under current plans are 13 processors for the desktop segment on the program expanded to include six new notebook CPUs for the high-end segment. They are:
- Core i3-2120
- Core i3-2100
- Core i3-2100T
- Core i5-2500
- Core i5-2500S
- Core i5-2500T
- Core i5-2400
- Core i5-2400S
- Core i5-2390T
- Core i7-2600K
- Core i7-2600
- Core i7-2600S
- Core i5-2500K
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