The Ivy Bridge Preview: Core i7 3770K Tested
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 6, 2012 8:16 PM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- Core i7
- Ivy Bridge
Power Consumption
Intel isn't really exploiting 22nm for significantly higher default or max turbo frequencies. While it does seem like you'll hit turbo frequencies more often with Ivy, most of what 22nm offers will be realized as power savings.
At idle, all cores are already power gated so there's not much more Ivy Bridge can offer. We see savings of a couple of watts at most over the 2600K but otherwise it's nothing significant. In notebooks I'd expect to see implementations of DDR3L help keep power consumption down, but at idle there's really not much that can be done.
Under load however the power savings are significant. The Core i7 3770K pulls 27 fewer watts while delivering better performance than the 2600K. Again, translating this to what you can expect in notebooks I'd say that peak battery life likely won't be affected, but battery life under load will be better with Ivy.
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Bateluer - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
Until AMD goes out of business. Then Intel gets lazy again, and the price of even a mid range CPU creeps back up above 600 dollars. You might be too young to remember the 500 dollar price tags on the first gen P3s, when Intel had no effective competition from AMD.Its not in the consumer's best interests for AMD to die off.
And, FYI, their GPUs are top notch and excellent, across the entire market. Downside is, they're basically carrying the company right now and that's not sustainable.
m.amitava - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
This sans guy is hilarious!!Lets prod him a bit more and really get his fanboi juices flowing :)
AMD is the best!!!!! yaaay....Intel sucks they'll go out of business sometime next week :D
Azeraph - Thursday, March 8, 2012 - link
it doesn't really matter if the igp isn't that great most people don't buy them for their graphics power.I get the feeling that maybe intel is just putting them out there to keep it's base solid against AMD,Not that it needs it and i'm an amd fan. i found something the other day that will possibly change how tomorrows processors will use light instead of electricity.http://scitechdaily.com/penn-researchers-build-a-c...
m.amitava - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
ain't he cute ? :)...I hope he's not a bot...that would break my heartGalvin - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - link
Pleasemattgmann - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - link
it would be cool to see a 4ghz clocked nehalem shuffled in the mix. I'm sure I'm not the only one rocking an i7 9xx wondering how much actual productivity gains are to be had with the new tech. I personally don't like to upgrade until the new gen's retail performance out-does my previous overclocked performance by a solid 15%.svata - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - link
Is the bug with true 23.976 fps playback fixed?http://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-sandy-bridg...
sicofante - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - link
I understand that will be part of the new chipsets which haven't been tested here, but I'm also very interested. As a matter of fact, I have a few HTPC customers waiting for Ivy Bridge for this sole reason.vlado08 - Friday, March 9, 2012 - link
I don't find the silence about 23.976 fps playback very promising. This is new chipset "Keep in mind that this is a preview using early drivers and an early Z77 motherboard" .... "Intel Z77 Chipset Based Motherboard"I find three possibilities:
1. They are not going to fix it with Ivy bridge.
2. They are not ready with the drivers.
3. They are ready and everything is fine but keeping silen becoause they need to sell old chips.
It didn't left much. We'll see.
Assimilator87 - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - link
Intel's always the best, EXCEPT WHEN THEY'RE NOT! Athlon 64. Since AMD's sticking with Bulldozer's base architecture for at least a couple generations, they won't be competitive for a while, but that doesn't mean they'll never be competitive.