Upcoming Intel Sandy Bridge 32nm

[fatalcore]

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Intel is doing nothing to downplay expectations for Sandy Bridge, its next-generation microarchitecture, here at Computex. Over the past few months the company has been providing glimpses of the capabilities of Sandy Bridge at events such as the Intel Developer Forum in Beijing and the recent analyst’s day, but in Taiwan this week Intel execs have been showing more details and promising a big performance boost.

Currently in production, Sandy Bridge is a new 32nm microarchitecture that will be available in laptops and desktops starting in early 2011. In other words, it is the “tock” to the Westmere “tick,” the 32nm shrink. Sandy Bridge is significant because it is the first time Intel has developed a mainstream monolithic die (meaning a single physical piece of silicon) that contains both the CPU and the integrated GPU (graphics processing unit). The current Westmere design consists of a 32nm processor and a separate 45nm chip with Intel HD integrated graphics combined in the same package.

During his keynote presentation on Tuesday, Executive Vice President Dadi Perlmutter demonstrated the graphics capabilities of a Sandy Bridge laptop, showing it side-by-side with an existing laptop using a mid-range discrete GPU both playing the same 3D game. The crowd was not able to tell which system was using Sandy Bridge with Intel integrated graphics.

“It delivers a great performance leap–probably better than anything we’ve ever done before,” Perlmutter said, adding that production of the new chips was in “great shape.”

In a separate presentation, Mooly Eden made the case for the greater performance delivered in both in the current Westmere-based systems–with features such as Turbo Mode and hyperthreading–and in the future with Sandy Bridge. He first demonstrated how these feature can make desktops and laptops more responsive on everyday applications such as e-mail, PowerPoint and Google’s Picasa. For example, Eden said that laptops using the Calpella platform with a Westmere CPU were 2.2 to 2.3 times faster than the previous Montevina laptops on tasks such as photo editing and video conversion, and hinted at much bigger things with Sandy Bridge.

“Sandy Bridge is not going to be 2.3x. It is not going to be 3x, it’s not going to be 4x,” Eden said. “It’s going to be much higher.”

Eden added that Sandy Bridge would increase performance in a balanced way across the CPU, graphics and video. He argued that video performance was more important than 3D gaming for most users, taking a shot at competitor Nvidia in the process. “Some companies say it is all about graphics. I don’t blame them-they don’t have a CPU,” Eden said.

The real competition here is AMD, which has expertise in both CPUs and discrete graphics. It is also putting the finishing touches on a monolithic CPU+GPU, known as Fusion, which is slated to be available around the same time as Sandy Bridge. I’m hoping to hear a bit more about these Fusion APUs (Accelerated Processing Units) at AMD’s press conference here on Wednesday.

In addition to discussing Sandy Bridge, Intel made a few product announcements related to consumer PCs. First, the company announced its first mainstream desktop processors that are designed to be overclocked. The Core i7-875K ($342) and Core i5-655K ($216) are identical the 2.93GHz Core i7-870 quad-core and 3.20GHz dual-core Core i5-650 but with an unlocked core ratio. During his press conference, Eden showed how the 2.93GHz Core i7-875K could be pushed to 4.0GHz using Intel’s overclocking utility and Turbo Mode. Second, Intel announced that the first PCs to support Blu-ray 3D playback using a Core processor and Intel HD graphics would be available this summer. Finally the company said that its Intel Wireless Display technology for streaming content to HDTVs will be available on more than 30 different laptop models worldwide later this year. It is currently an option on only a handful of notebooks in the U.S

Hi friends,Can we put some discussion over it ?
I would like to know more about it...Its motherboard,its price,gpu....etc etc.....
Please add any extra information you gather in the net or u know about them.
Thanks and regards.

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Biostar, MSI flaunt Sandy Bridge motherboards

COMPUTEX — Intel's next-generation Sandy Bridge processors may not be due out for at least another six months, but here at Computex, some motherboard makers were already showing Sandy Bridge-compatible mobos based on Intel's future 6-series chipsets.

We caught a glimpse of three such boards: one from MSI and two from Biostar. All three had LGA1155 sockets and fairly conventional-looking layouts, although MSI had beefed up its offering with low-profile (and purportedly long-lasting) "Hi-c" capacitors.

When we inquired about performance and clock speeds, we were told to expect a "lot of surprises" from Sandy Bridge, both on the CPU and graphics fronts. (Sandy Bridge, for those unaware, will succeed Nehalem, the architecture upon which Intel bases its current Core i3, i5, and i7 processors.)

Interestingly, one of the two companies claimed existing LGA1156 processors won't actually be able to function in LGA1155 boards with 6-series chipsets. We were also told that Intel will stick to existing Core in model numbers for Sandy Bridge CPUs.

About the 6-series chipsets themselves, Biostar had both the P67 and H67 (which looks to support integrated graphics) on display. Judging by the label on the MSI board, that one seemed to be based on the H67, as well. Both chipsets have 6Gbps Serial ATA connectivity built in. The MSI product card also mentions support for CrossFire and SLI.

NOTE: Copied Report from tech report.

[rajan1311]

dude you should link back to the source and not just say where you have copied it from.

[asingh]

Will this dock to 1366..?

[fatalcore]

^^@rajan1311
Hi,I know the general procedure to post 'posts' , actually I compiled the report about 4-5 days ago on my laptop and that too from different sites , report and news and personal research .So unfortunately i don't remember the exact links of the posts . Thats why i credited the original site from where i got the valuable inputs.I hope you can understand that.

@asigh !
Its so nice to hear you after so many days,till today i have not found out that intel is going to dock sandy bridge in 1366.
The die is going to change , so its not possible to dock that in 1366.Sandy Bridge chips will also require a brand new socket, LGA 1155 and later on LGA 2011 for six and eight core variants, neither of which will be backwards compatible with older CPUs
Next generation motherboards are getting ready to roll out.

Additional update :

1>Processor

The new Core i7 970 will reportedly be priced around $115 lower than the range-topping Core i7 980X in the U.S. and will feature slightly toned down specs such as 3.2GHz clock speeds as well as a locked multiplier. Otherwise both chips sport the same 12MB L3 cache, are compatible with socket LGA 1366 boards and -- of course -- have six cores and twelve threads.

The new Gulftown chip can be found in its boxed version from U.K. retailer Digital-Fusion for £705.52 (or around $1,090). The same site has the 980X for £801.22 ($1,230), so if the price relationship is retained for the U.S. market then its non-Extreme variant should retail for around $885. While the intention is to make their six-core parts available to a slightly broader user base, Intel could have a hard time finding buyers for its latest chip at that price -- after all, anyone willing to spend close to $900 on a high-end processor might as well pay the extra $100 for the Extreme Edition 980X.

Later this month the company is also expected to release a couple of entry-level Pentium processors, as well as a Core i5 760 with two cores clocked at 2.9GHz and a lower powered Core i5 870 with a selling price of $351.

2>Graphics card

It's Not A Radeon HD 5970. It's A Radeon HD 5870 X2
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Specification:
Shader Processors: 3200 (1600 x 2)
Texture Units: 160 (2 x 80)
Color ROPs: 64 (2 x 32)
Core Clock: 850 MHz
GDDR5 Memory Clock: 1200 MHz
Memory Bus: 256-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/s): 153.6
Compute Power (TFLOPs): 5.44
Total Transistors (billion): 4.3
Maximum Power: ~350 W*
Idle Power: ~45 W*
*estimated based on observed power usage



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Units for sale : 1000 Worldwide.

[rajan1311]

I meant give the link to that site. It will help that site for it PR

Sandybridge processors will use new sockets, the LGA 1155. Many boards have been displayed. I dont get the point though...hard enough having i7s for different sockets, now you have LGA 1156 and 1155.

Here are some boards that were shown at computex this year : LGA 1155 boards

[fatalcore]

It's a 32 nm die..so definitely we need new board...else how will it work.