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Ivy Bridge Running Hotter Than Intel's Last-gen CPU
crookedvulture writes "The launch of Intel's Ivy Bridge CPUs made headlines earlier this week, but the next-gen processor's story is still being told. When overclocked, Ivy Bridge runs as much as 20C hotter than its Sandy Bridge predecessor at the same speed, despite the fact that the two chips have comparable power consumption. There are several reasons for these toasty tendencies. The new 22-nm process used to fabricate the CPU produces a smaller die with less surface area to dissipate heat. Intel has changed the thermal interface material between the CPU die and its heat spreader. Ivy also requires a much bigger step up in voltage to hit the same speeds as Sandy Bridge."
... a processor without a on die gpu, if I'm going to have more heat I want more performance.
After switching all my lights to LED bulbs, its a bit cold in my office. A new, hotter CPU could be just what I need.
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It's clear in the article, but the headline here sort of implies that the chips run hotter in general, whereas this test is only saying the new chips run hotter when overclocked. From what I can find, when run at the rated voltages/speeds, Ivy Bridge CPUs run at about the same temperature as last gen's CPUs.
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Ivy also requires a much bigger step up in voltage to hit the same speeds as Sandy Bridge.
I get the feeling that they have very weird notions about what constitutes CPU Speed...
Remember a year ago Intel was bragging about their new 3d tri-gate process would be 50% more power efficient: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/silicon-innovations/standards-22nm-3d-tri-gate-transistors-presentation.html.
Comparing the i7 3770K against the 2600K, which is clocked at the same frequency it's only 17% more power efficient: http://www.anandtech.com/show/5771/the-intel-ivy-bridge-core-i7-3770k-review/20
Also you have to bare in mind some of the power saving is due to the DDR controller power gating
Not all of us do overclocking. Subject is misleading.
>wouldn't have it been possible for the engineers to figure out some sort of solution
They did. The solution is "Don't overclock your processor".
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So lemme see here...Intel's new CPU dies are now smaller (good), which makes them less dissipative of heat (bad), so they decide to use worse thermal paste stuff?
Seems legit.
You can hold down the "B" button for continuous firing.
Emphasis on sample
If the retail releases also have this issue, then its newsworthy
The majority of people do not overclock their CPUs so this is not an issue for the majority.
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Ivy Bridge does not use more power than Sandy Bridge and it's as expensive/cheaper than Sandy Bridge.
The only thing that isn't as good is overclocking headroom. Hardly sounds like a bad compromise, especially considering the much-improved GPU.
And I am guessing you eat other meat. Your point?
There's only so many tricks that Intel can pull off to keep the power dissipation down. Intelligent power gating, process improvements, optimized circuits, etc... and still, we have WAY more transistors on die that we can actually switch due to power constraints. Think about that for a second. Even ignoring the fact that 90% of the chip is very low activity cache, we cannot utilize all our transistors and get under 100 W/cm^2 (the limit of conventional fan + heatsink cooling). A lot of your chip is going to waste because of power constraints.
And it's just going to get worse. Imagine what the power density will be like when 3D monolithically stacked ICs go into serious production? Multiply your power density times the number of vertical layers!
There's only so much you can do when you're cooling your chip by essentially blowing on it. One of the big innovations is going to have to be improved cooling. Microfluidic channels, which were developed almost THIRTY YEARS ago, might be a good option.
Traditional scaling has been over for a couple generations now (ask any Intel process engineer). Power and process variation are what matter now. And both of them are very, very difficult problems to solve that will get much worse with each generation.
The CPU is 20C hotter, but does the upper limit it can reach safely is also 20C hotter or stay the same?
So this Mustang Cobra uses more gas, runs hotter, and its only a half a second faster in the 1/4 mile then the stock mustang?
P.S. You should check out the Ivy Bridge pricing before opening your stupid mouth.
Good-bye
I think that something that people need to keep in mind is this chip is ~31% smaller. Even with that it's using the same amount of power. I'm not surprised that a byproduct of compressing an area like that is more heat. Also, the chip uses Turbo Boost 2.0. This is automatic overclocking.
Power consumption varies with the square of the voltage (p=v^2/r) while the power consumption varies linearly with the frequency, if it takes signicantly more voltage to over clock then it's no wonder the power usage is so high.
Ivy Bridge is smaller in area than Sandy Bridge. Assuming I got the right numbers from Wikipedia, 160 mm^2 vs 216. That's 74% the area for heat transfer.
Or "Overclock it less, since Sandy Bridge spoiled everyone."
My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells by the seashore.
You think that's bad?
He was born in Hawaii. Odds are, at some point, he has actually eaten Spam.
*shudder*
its actually a bit cooler, intel does not give a shit about thermal performance outside of its defined operating parameters, and I dont blame them
After switching all my lights to LED bulbs, its a bit cold in my office. A new, hotter CPU could be just what I need.
You're confusing temperature and heat. A candle burns hotter than a person, but a person puts out more heat (100W) than a candle (80W). Likewise, Ivy Bridge puts out less heat than Sandy Bridge, even though it's hotter.
(T>t && O(n)--) == sqrt(666)
Looking at the pictures in the Overclockers.com link, you'd probably get better thermal dissipation if had Intel left the heat spreader off, with nothing expect the protective overcoat on the back of the chip.
Actually, I bet modders are going to start cracking the IHS off for that very purpose, in order to directly contact their heatsinks.
Dog is tasty. I just can't vote for someone who puts pineapple on his pizza.
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Why, was he visiting Korea?
You should worry less about the CPU and more about the GPU... they're the ones burning all the power.
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Dog is tasty. I just can't vote for someone who puts pineapple on his pizza.
Practically nobody in Hawaii puts pineapple on pizza. Hardly anyone in Hawaii even cooks pineapple, we eat it fresh or at worst canned. I never even heard of "hawaiian pizza" until I moved to the mainland. Wikipedia says it was first created in Canada.
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Practically nobody in Hawaii puts pineapple on pizza
I sure did when I lived there. So did other people. Called it pineapple and ham though, not 'hawaiian.' The Dominos Chicken Pestoza was good too, but I don't know if they serve it anymore over there.
And spam musubi is the best bra.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
It's hotter when overclocked. Overclockers love having to run pipes and submerge things. How are you going to justify hauling out the liquid nitrogen if it's running cool?
Meanwhile everyone else is happier that it runs cooler, takes less power, is faster, and even costs less than Sandy Bridge.
This is Win Win, people.
Depends on the CPU, but most (~90%) Sandy Bridge i5 CPU's will take 4GHz without any problem, and about 50% can hit 4.5GHz without breaking a sweat. This is for an i5 2500k, which comes with a stock clock speed of 3.2GHz. My 2500k is currently running at 4.7GHz and it doesn't have any stability problems at all, even when I run video encodes that keep the CPU at 100% occupancy 24/7... when I push it to 4.8GHz (change the multiplier from 46x to 47x, with system bus at 103MHz), it starts to crash. I suspect that if I had a better cooling setup (using a Cooler Master Hyper 212+ heatsink, which is air cooled and keeps the CPU max temperature around 65'C at 4.7GHz) I may be able to squeeze a few more clock cycles out of the processor, but it's not worth $200 for a water cooling setup.
People paying for these CPU are gamers and enthusiasms anyway, they have a discrete GPU and don't use the built-in one. I'm pretty sure less than 1% of the SandyBridge/IvyBridge sold use the built-in GPU since it's an horror compared to real graphic cards.
You'd be wrong, especially in laptops. I have a Sandy Bridge Celeron U3600 in my laptop, and I'm using the integrated graphics. They're plenty powerful enough for desktop compositing, and I get respectable framerates playing the occasional game.
Seriously. What kind of quantum chromodynamics calculations are you simply not getting done today?
I think these days technically ALL of us do overclocking thanks to Turbo Boost and similar such technologies which up the frequency of the processor when only some cores are loaded.
When you say "marginally", can you find a single source / release from the past year indicating more than a 10-20% speed boost for IB? Because this is what was predicted, and what has been delivered.
It's "brah." We don't call people boobslings.
Oh I know. I would never mock Hawaiianspeak on purpose.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
I partially heat my home office with my Pentium 4.
Really. Sometimes I boot my old box just because the room is chilly.
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This brings new meaning to the term "burning bridges". ;-)
Aaaaand it was so delish.
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
As for being a "partner" a lot of muslims consider dog to be a dirty unclean animal.
Yes, Muslims are hateful bigots. Your point?
Irony meter overload.
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My laptop has manually-switchable graphics (Sandy Bridge or extra-low-end AMD chip), and I've noticed that Sandy Bridge is actually a bit better at hardware acceleration (In IE9) than the AMD chip.
Perhaps I'll flip the fan around on the side of the case to blow outwards. Then I'll have the breeze.
I've been trying to fry that P4 for nearly a decade. But. It. Just. Won't. Die.
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these are CPUs with unlocked multiplier, just as it was before the pentium 2 and Athlon era. only on the expensive models muiltiplier is unlocked though, and other forms of o/c have been severely limited. What does that mean? pretty much only the CPU clock moves, typicaly at default core voltage. No memory and no bus are overclocked : the biggest offenders against data integrity aren't involved in the O/C at all. so it feels pretty safe.