Intel Core i3 Clarkdale details leaked
Clarkdale CPUs have a GPU chip next to them - that's what those two rectangles are
The story says that there will be both Core i3 and Core i5 Clarkdale CPUs, all of which will have integrated DirectX 10 GPUs. It looks like the Core i3 range won’t have Turbo Boost while the new Core i5s will. However, the level to which these new Core i5s boost doesn’t look quite as impressive as the levels to which the Lynnfield-based Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs can achieve.
The TDPs of the chips look fairly decent at 73W for most of the CPUs, which is a consequence of the 32nm manufacturing process. However, the German reseller suggests that there will be one Core i5 with a TDP of 87W as its GPU will be clocked at 900MHz rather than the 733MHz of the rest of the range. The name of the CPU and the question mark next to its price doesn’t fill us with much confidence that this ‘Core i5-661’ will really happen.
The leaked information on Intel’s forthcoming Core i3 and Core i5 processors (codenamed Clarkdale)
We expect Clarkdale to fit into the LGA1156 socket, though we don’t yet know if it’ll be compatible with P55 motherboards. However, we have seen some performance figures for Clarkdale CPUs as well as some preview shots of a Westmere motherboard
We don't expect these CPUs to launch this year, so in the meantime all we can do is talk - are you looking forward to some budget-tastic Intel CPUs or do you think AMD will have enough to resist these new CPUs? And would you be annoyed if they weren't compatible with P55 boards? Thoughts in the forums please!
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Discuss in the forums ReplyThough I guess GPU performance will be the deciding factor.
These parts will be a bit too late for the PC I'm building later this months. Shame.
However, if you are buying a new system it's looking like Intel for any build regardless of price.
Looks like Intel will recoup that money given to AMD a couple of weeks ago quite easily. What AMD are going to do I don't know, the only thing going for them at the moment is ATi but will that change as well early next year?
Now, if zambezi and llano are flops in 2011, then AMD is going to have a problem.
Because it means cheaper motherboards, less cooling issues because it only needs one large heatsink and OEMs love onboard graphics. Intel is the biggest graphics manufacturer in the world, thanks to its shitty IGPs.
You can buy one of these and plug in a graphics card like any normal motherboard and it disables the onboard.
L1 cache is tiny and is the fastest most needy place on the CPU pipeline. L2 cache is slightly bigger, slightly slower and holds more general data at the end of the pipeline. L3 cache is the slowest and holds more complete, but regularly accessed data from all cores, not just one. It stops other cores sniffing each other to see what they are doing: it's called a snoop-filter. Dual cores don't really need a L3 cache, but many-core CPUs do.
L1 is a tiny bit of on-chip superfast RAM (not really, i know) only one core has access to. L2 is somewhat bigger somewhat less fast RAM on the chip where both cores have acces to. and L3 is again bigger and again somewhat slower and buffers between the RAM (the sticks in your MB, not on-chip) and the L2, like the RAM buffers between the hard disk and the CPU.
somebody more hardware litterate: correct me if i'm wrong
EDIT: ah, ninja'd by bindi
;) no probs!
For example:
AMD X2 250 (2 core, maybe 3 core) -> 50 (no need for more, the HD movies are played thru the onboard GPU), fresh cpu...
Asus M4A785TD-V EVO -> 75 (with HD4200, plays some games, and offloads the cpu with the HD acceleration for blu ray's)
4Gb DDR3 -> 65
Board + AMD cpu = 125
- The lowest core i3 -> 103.... without a mobo, the cheapest 1156 mobo I found was 110, but the new i3 mobos come without a NB, just a SB, but even without the Northbridge I don't believe it will get as down as the 75 AMD motherboard... Still too expensive for HTPC...
AMD in trouble? Personally, I don't think so, Intel have never made any real progress in to the graphics market or given any of the real graphics card makers anything to worry about and this is no exception.
Clearly this is a niche product that will have a greater appeal in smaller more portable devices where power saving and less demanding graphic uses apply.
I would still like to see at least 3 more companies making X86 procs.
Not a fanboy, I just buy the best,
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Personally not for me but prefer to have seperate but we'll see how the future pans out on these
It still remains to be seen if hex cores will contain a memory controller for DDR2. If they do thats huge upgradability. At the moment clarkdales socket is still unknown, could intel have 4 sockets on the go including LGA775?
I remember pushing that button on my big beige box, nothing seemed to happen lol :D
NIVIDIA launches graphics card with integrated CPU, compatible with new GPUBios bootloader.
I remember doing that and a green led came on next to the button but I still stood there with a boast grin on my face and arms crossed showing bored and uninterested family members that the PC was now in "TURBO MODE!" If I was young now, would that now be me with a foot on the back bumper of a Corsa with a "PHAT" exhaust?