As the title suggests , intel's all set to release its next tock ( new microarchitecture) codenamed 'haswell' based cpu's which will sport an all new 1150 socket.
As per intel's announcement in IDF 2012, haswell based cpu's will support new instruction sets like AVX2, FMA3 and TSX and will have an extra set of ALU , two new floating unit for FMA operations, extra storage unit ( register) and an improved branch prediction unit. Combine these and haswell performs 8 operations per cycle ( ivybridge did 6 per cycle).
Cache performance also has been improved as per intel but latency remains same. Buffer is improved though. Haswell consumes half the power than ivybridge thanks to the inclusion of a new power state called ix01. Transitions from one state to the other now uses less voltage. Haswell has been build from ground up to utilize the 22nm trigate fabrication to the core. Expect IPC to be even better.
However haswell's real strength lies in its new GPU which comes in 3 variants called GT1,GT2 & GT3 respectively.
GT3 is the word in town as it sports 40 EU's performing in 6670 levels. The differences here is that haswell's gpu now has its own voltage frequency and does not share that from cpu.
Separate voltage is fed through as its ring is completely decoupled from cpu.
Another significant thing is that haswell gpu now supports direct x 11.1 , opengl. 4.0 and for the first time includes opencl 1.2 acceleration. This should give trinity tremendous competition
and match it graphical abilities and opencl performance. It was noted somewhere that GT3 was running skyrim at 1080p at high settings and returned 40 -50 fps. HD 4000 on another system ran skyrim at 1366x 768 at medium settings and then only returned same fps as GT3. Expect much faster quicksync performance too.
Things look promising and all set for 14nm broadwell which will introduce an MCP (multi chip package) design which integrates processor,gpu and chipset ( north and south bridge or pch for intel) in one single die package.
Refer below for more info:
4th Generation of Core Microarchitecture: Intel Haswell - X-bit labs
As per intel's announcement in IDF 2012, haswell based cpu's will support new instruction sets like AVX2, FMA3 and TSX and will have an extra set of ALU , two new floating unit for FMA operations, extra storage unit ( register) and an improved branch prediction unit. Combine these and haswell performs 8 operations per cycle ( ivybridge did 6 per cycle).
Cache performance also has been improved as per intel but latency remains same. Buffer is improved though. Haswell consumes half the power than ivybridge thanks to the inclusion of a new power state called ix01. Transitions from one state to the other now uses less voltage. Haswell has been build from ground up to utilize the 22nm trigate fabrication to the core. Expect IPC to be even better.
However haswell's real strength lies in its new GPU which comes in 3 variants called GT1,GT2 & GT3 respectively.
GT3 is the word in town as it sports 40 EU's performing in 6670 levels. The differences here is that haswell's gpu now has its own voltage frequency and does not share that from cpu.
Separate voltage is fed through as its ring is completely decoupled from cpu.
Another significant thing is that haswell gpu now supports direct x 11.1 , opengl. 4.0 and for the first time includes opencl 1.2 acceleration. This should give trinity tremendous competition
and match it graphical abilities and opencl performance. It was noted somewhere that GT3 was running skyrim at 1080p at high settings and returned 40 -50 fps. HD 4000 on another system ran skyrim at 1366x 768 at medium settings and then only returned same fps as GT3. Expect much faster quicksync performance too.
Things look promising and all set for 14nm broadwell which will introduce an MCP (multi chip package) design which integrates processor,gpu and chipset ( north and south bridge or pch for intel) in one single die package.
Refer below for more info:
4th Generation of Core Microarchitecture: Intel Haswell - X-bit labs
