RuH RoH. Is everyone upgrading a bit early? 8 Core Haswell nextyear?

Well I guess this would be something to consider when I do my yearly upgrade.
 
If they increase the TDP like that these things will run as hot as the old I-7s from the X58 platform. Even though the article jokes about AMD getting punked, the only reason Intel will offer an 8 core cpu is because AMD already has one on the market and if they didn't we'd never ever see one from Intel for the consumer side.

I'll believe 33-50% performance gains when I see them. Haswell was reported early on to be a 40% increase over Ivy Bridge and it turned out to be what, 10-12%? Let's see how realistic this article is next year.
 
sixer9682 said:
If they increase the TDP like that these things will run as hot as the old I-7s from the X58 platform. Even though the article jokes about AMD getting punked, the only reason Intel will offer an 8 core cpu is because AMD already has one on the market and if they didn't we'd never ever see one from Intel for the consumer side.

I'll believe 33-50% performance gains when I see them. Haswell was reported early on to be a 40% increase over Ivy Bridge and it turned out to be what, 10-12%? Let's see how realistic this article is next year.
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I agree. I just love hearing and hoping about new and better hardware!
 
probably going to be too expensive for the average user. after $200 the price/performance gets diminishing returns.
 
Thelus said:
probably going to be too expensive for the average user. after $200 the price/performance gets diminishing returns.
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Its the enthusiast platform based of server CPUs its always going to be unaffordable.

As far as sixers comment. Remember this is an actual 8 core CPU. Its not even in the same league as AMDs offering for desktop. AMD does offer similar market server CPUs just like Intel has for years.

8 cores 8 front ends 8 FPUs 8 partially duplicated stages for a total of 16 threads versus AMDs 4 cores 4 front ends 4 FPUs 4 partially duplicated stages for a total of 8 threads. If the clocks are low enough per thread performance might be close with the latest offering AMD is spitting out.

Gamers don't need this no. But people never think of shit they could be doing while gaming. I have to stop gaming to encode video etc. But overall this is for the folding or boinc nut cases as well as anyone doing CPU based ray tracing etc. It makes a killer platform for some niche shit.

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I'm all for 6-core and 8-core CPUs. I'm still thinking of upgrading to Westmere (instead of hopping to Haswell). But $350 for a dead platform is hardly ideal. I just can't get over the fact that Intel is so slow with their high-end chips.
 
It's kind of diminishing returns at this point. Most multithreaded algorhithms like encoding (and cryptocurrency mining hurrrr) might as well be run on a video card these days, which is kinda sad.

Most "current-gen" games are struggling to really utilize 4 cores, nevermind more. Usually the main render thread runs on 1 core from what I understand...

I mean, you can spend $1500 or whatever it'll cost for e-peen, but the sad reality is that a $200-ish i5 will probably be pretty close to what you're getting from a gaming perspective.

I guess if you want to run many web/database/servers on your own PC or something, the CPU might be useful, but realistically how often does that happen...

Also, fuck wells. I want a CPU that has a bucket. Hasbucket!
 
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