The frequencies and caches of three Sandy Bridge-E models have appeared on the canvas. The Core i7-3960X will be a processor with six cores rotating at 3.30 GHz and 3.9 GHz in Turbo mode. It has a 15 MB L3 cache. It should be the most expensive of all and probably cost in the $1,000. The Core i7-3930K will have the same number of cores, but lower frequencies. It will turn to 3.20 GHz in normal mode and 3.80 GHz in Turbo mode. It will have 12 MB L3 cache. Finally, the last is a processor quad core responding on behalf of Core i7-3810. It will turn to 3.60 GHz and will have a turbo mode of 3.9 GHz and 10 MB of L3 cache.
This information comes from the Donanim Haber site and if they are correct, this would mean first that Intel would have decided to amend the nomenclature for the Sandy Bridge-E with the number three at the top of each model. It recalls that it had introduced a nomenclature to four digits with the Sandy Bridge which are designated as Core ix - 2xxx where they are not declined in Pentium or Celeron version. The idea of a change in nomenclature for the Sandy Bridge-E was issued last June, but at the time, talked about the use of the name Core i8.Intel have decided to designate the Sandy Bridge-E as a new architecture, which is not accurate. The Sandy-Bridge-E are primarily the Sandy Bridge high range requesting a Socket LGA 2011. In addition, according to the latest information published on the site VR-Zone, Intel would lower the characteristics of motherboards X 79 to extricate its product before the end of the year.
Earlier this month, rumors claimed that the Sandy Bridge-E were delayed and had to go out to these 2012 (cf. "The Sandy Bridge-E pushed early 2012"). The reasons for the delay were unknown. Today, the sounds of corridors say that Intel would be problems with the X 79 chipset that meets for code Patsburg-X, which was similar to the Patsburg-D chipset with a few changes to the consumer market. Patsburg D is high range for the Sandy Bridge - E Xeon chipset. It has eight ports SAS - SATA 6 Gb/s and it uses link 4 x PCI-Express 3.0 to connect the SAS ports to the CPU and optimize the performance of storage solutions. In response to its problems of development and his desire to leave the Sandy Bridge-E before the end of the year, the 79 X should be demoted to a B Patsburg manages only four SAS ports - SATA 6 Gb/s. PCI-Express 3.0 would also abandoned.If these information are correct, this means that the Sandy Bridge-E platform would lose some of its appeal. These changes will not impact on the performance in General, but the lifespan of the platform could be reduced, which is more harmful on the premium system which is supposed to last until the second half of 2013.These changes last minutes we also require to ask if the integration of the Sandy Bridge-E in the ix-3xxx Core family which should be mainly inhabited by the Ivy Bridge is sound. It risk primarily to confuse the consumer while the new architecture, which should arrive in the second quarter of 2012 will support PCI-Express 3.0.
In the meantime, the three processors in flight have all supported the HyperThreading and all a 130 W TDP. The X refers to Extreme Edition design and K points to an editable multiplier. These information are consistent rumors that we reported last May (cf. "Rise in frequency for the Sandy Bridge-E step"). Intel frequencies remain cautious, but these processors are designed to integrate configurations very high range, Intel expects surely overclockent consumers themselves their processor.
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