Ivy Bridge will accelerate 20-30%

Although the Sandy Bridge family has just been released, the next generation of Ivy Bridge has begun to be exposed frequently, and even now there are some performance-related data.

VR-Zone. An early road map obtained by the com website shows that Intel estimates that Ivy Bridge can bring about an overall performance increase of around 20% compared to Sandy Bridge, which is greater than Sandy Bridge's progress, but without any specific details.

The biggest change of the Ivy Bridge processor is naturally that the manufacturing process is upgraded from 32nm to 22nm, and the internal microarchitecture will not change much. The number of cores is still two and four, and the LGA1155 package interface will still be used, at least initially. , but there are also other packaging possibilities.

Support for the PCI-E 3.0 specification is very likely, but the number of PCI-E channels will not increase substantially.

Graphics continue to integrate the graphics core, upgrade support for DirectX 11, OpenCL 1.1 standards, while supporting HDMI 1.4 output and three independent monitors, but the strange thing is that DisplayPort will only support the 1.1 version and will not reach 1.2. The goal of performance improvement is 30%, which is exactly in line with the statement that the number of execution units has been increased to 16. In addition, video decoding, encoding, and transcoding performance will be further improved, but it depends on the degree of support for multimedia software.

The most important feature of the companion Panther Point 7 series chipset is the native support of USB 3.0, and it will provide four USB 3.0 interfaces. The new chipset will continue to support the Sandy Bridge processor. The current Cougar Point 6 series is said to support Ivy Bridge to a certain degree. In some cases, it is not necessary to replace the motherboard to upgrade it. However, the details are unknown.

The Panther Point 7 series chipsets will continue to natively support SATA 6Gbps, but it is not yet known whether the number of interfaces will exceed two.