HASWELL in detail

[Fazzatron]

HASWELL

Anandtech has a detailed article on the changes from ivy bridge and its a big one enjoy.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6355/i...l-architecture

Massive changes from ivy.

Its also there truely first new design since conroe its a total redesign from pipleline up to cache and interconnects.

Those who read will see that the cpu has more than double the internal bandwidth of ivy bridge!
not to mention the double wide front end or improved branch decode.fetcher. decoupled L3 cache and the host of IPC (instuctions per clock) improvements. new ports 6 - 7 also a first

Its going to be a lot more than 10-15 percent over ivy a lot lot more.

read n discuss

 

[Tyler-Durden]

MBP Retina 13 + Haswell = my next laptop

 

[pelo]

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1728013&page=2&highlight=haswell

 

[Liger88]

Its going to be a lot more than 10-15 percent over ivy a lot lot more.

read n discuss

In mobile? Yes. In desktops? Doubtful. The potential is there, but few applications and programmers will probably take advantage of Haswell in the life span a person will own it to see any general purpose computing higher than 10-15%.

 

[TroyX]

that article is 3 months old, did you know that?