Ivy Bridge-E Rumour thread

[SpeedyVV]

Ok, so I bought in to the X79 platform and got an ASUS RIVF.

My hope was that IB-E would bring in some awesome CPU [H]ardness.

To hold me over, my bad, I went ahead and bought an ES equiv of an 3960X.

I am loving it, but the my intention was always to get a IB-E i-7 the moment it came out.

But, unlike our Z77 friends we are not getting any love in terms of news, and it looks like things could get worse.

Hence this thread.

Please share any "news" or rumours you can find on IB-E you get.

Here is a seed rumour article:

The new Ivy Bridge-E/EP design, which is set to emerge later this year and to power various microprocessor products, will physically have twelve cores and 30MB level-three cache, up significantly from eight cores and 20MB L3 cache inside Sandy Bridge-E/EP.

The Ivy Bridge-E variation of the chip will be the base for high-end enthusiast-class Core Extreme processors as well as workstation-class Xeon chips, whereas the Ivy Bridge-EP will be used for Xeon chips for dual-socket severs.

It is expected that Ivy Bridge-E-based central processing units will have eight or ten cores (thus will have two cores disabled) as well as high clock-speeds to provide decent performance in workstation applications as well as video games. The Ivy Bridge-EP is projected to come with all cores enabled and therefore will feature up to twelve cores.

The new chips will be made using 22nm process technology and will have up to 150W thermal design power. The new processors will retain LGA2011 packaging.

 

[Ultima99]

This is all a speculation at this point. There are now some rumors claiming IB-E is going to be skipped to go straight to Haswell-E which would make sense at this point.

We might get some reliable info during IDF in April.

 

[DeathFromBelow]

This is all a speculation at this point. There are now some rumors claiming IB-E is going to be skipped to go straight to Haswell-E which would make sense at this point.

That would be preferable, IMO. It seems a little silly for the extreme platform to be more than a year behind what's available on the mainstream platform. An 8 core IB-E would have been nice and pushed a few people to do a drop-in upgrade, but I don't think switching from a 4 or 6 core SB-E to a similar IB-E chip would make much sense.

 

[KazeoHin]

Remember that SB-E released closer to the IvB launch than the original SB launch, and it also bears the same 3XXX product number set. They may do the same thing with IvB-E: launch it just before the new arch is out and give it the same 4XXX product numbering as the new arch.

 

[Ultima99]

Remember that SB-E released closer to the IvB launch than the original SB launch, and it also bears the same 3XXX product number set. They may do the same thing with IvB-E: launch it just before the new arch is out and give it the same 4XXX product numbering as the new arch.

There is no way IB-E is launching before June which is when Haswell is coming out.

 

[WeaponX]

I think they'll release IB-E sometime four quarter and yes, definitely not before Haswell. And just to reiterate, everything said right now is just pure speculation.

 

[Tgrove]

I think ivy bridge E will come out at the end of the year, why? Money and I think it will max out the socket. So I'm gonna stick with i7 3820 and skip ivy for haswell E complete upgrade