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Intel To Debut Limited-Run Ivy Bridge Processor
abhatt writes "Intel is set to debut the most power efficient chip in the world — a limited edition 'Ivy Bridge' processor in the upcoming annual Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Only a select group of tablet and ultrabook vendors will receive the limited Ivy Bridge chips. From the article: 'Intel did not say how far below 10 watts these special "Y" series Ivy Bridge processors will go, though Intel vice president Kirk Skaugen is expected to talk about the processors at CES.
These Ivy Bridge chips were first mentioned at Intel's annual developer conference last year but it wasn't clear at that time if Intel and its partners would go forward with designs. But it appears that some PC vendors will have select models in the coming months, according to Intel.'"
Probably because the price vs performance vs power triangle is focused almost entirely on power. Which is ok for something like an overpriced macbook air but datacentres would want more of a balance.
No, no it doesn't.
Yes it does!
It gets beaten by the i3 3220
No it doesn't!
Oh waid, you've compared a fusion processor to an i3 rather than the non fusion ones I was talking about.
Firstly, let's try here, for some multithreaded benchmarks:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_fx8350_visherabdver2&num=4
If you look the reports are generally exactly what I said with the addition that the A10 is much flower than the 8350. Generally, the 8350 is between the i5 and i7, occasionally a bit slower than the i5 sometimes much faster than the i7. That's a 100% multithreaded benchmark. It includes things like compiling, rendering, compression, image manipulation, media transcoding and some scientific work. Scientific codes are actually used inside modern games and modern filters in things like photoshop aso you can't dismiss them as "not for normal people".
In fact, the conclusion of that benchmark is that the 8350 is competetive with the 3770k which is much more expensive.
For a nice extreme example look at the CRay benchmark, where the FX8350 runs in under 2/3 of the time of the i7 3770K. There are extremes in the opposite direction, too.
There actually really aren't that many tasks where multithreading makes up the difference,
Apart from all the cases I listed. Running 200 single threaded benchmarks and 10 multithreaded ones doesn't imply single threaded tasks are more common.
And if you want a more mixed benchmark, go here:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fx-8350-vishera-review,3328-12.html
Where for a lot of tasks, like single threaded media encoding, the AMD processors are about 75% as fast.
And... back to your benchmarks.
So, I looked at the benchmarks, and the results were pretty mixed. Sometimes one processor wins by a large margin, other times the other one does. No graphics intensive or OpenCL benchmarkes are included for fusion versus i3 I note. There would be a no contest win to the fusion for those.
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