Early Ivy Bridge Sample Tested

[EniGmA1987]

as the chip manufacturing gets smaller, it gets harder, which we all know. but intel is way ahead of everyone else at it. so whatever happens, it looks like intel will continue to have the highest performance chips, AND the highest performance:power chips. whether intel beats its own overclocked 2600k in april, or later with IVB-E, it is almost selfish for us to ask. we're spoiled with performance. how many years might it be before AMD beats an overclocked 2600k? don't answer that.

1 year, 2 tops. In multithreaded benchmarks at least. Single threaded is a long way off. All AMD has to do is get the manufacturing process tweaked properly to fix the power draw problem and higher speeds. Optimizng the core will be here this year too so that will bring a tiny improvement too.



I hope Ivy does well though. Im not hoping for a lot but with a die shrink generally comes a little bit higher OC headroom so I am hoping for an average OC on the chips to be around 5GHz on air