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Is there a Road Map for the next set of Sandy Bridge Intel CPUs

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I imagine there will be another round of additional Sandy Bridge CPUs - is that true? Will the i7-2600K be the best Intel Sandy Bridge CPU there is in the next 6 months or will something better be out by then?

I couldn't find a road map online that included this info.
 
jnmunsey said:
I imagine there will be another round of additional Sandy Bridge CPUs - is that true? Will the i7-2600K be the best Intel Sandy Bridge CPU there is in the next 6 months or will something better be out by then?

I couldn't find a road map online that included this info.
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socket 2011 will be out later this year. ivy bridge.

the actual good stuff.
 
Intel had listed Ivy Bridge for 2012 release for a while. 4 days ago it updated the info: "UPDATE: In response to our queries, an Intel spokesman told V3.co.uk that its 22nm products are "on track for production in Q4 2011"." It could still mean a launch in early 2012. Intel says it already has 22nm samples of Ivy Bridge in testing. (shakes head at BD)

Socket LGA 2011 is on the roadmap for Q3'2011 for Sandy Bridge-E processors. Anand mentioned that LGA 2011 was coming in Q4, but I've read no other confirmation of that.
 
Cool and thanks, so is there any idea of how much of a performance gain there will be with the Ivy Bridge CPUs compared to Sandy Bridge ?
 
On CPU performance, probably not much clock for clock. Ivy Bridge is a 22nm shrink of Sandy Bridge. It will probably clock higher and run cooler per GHz (increase power efficiency).

The GPU side of IB should be much better. Intel has said a 2x performance improvement over SB graphics, plus the IGP will support DX11 and OpenCL/DirectCompute (programmable).
 
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