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Intel Discloses Core M Broadwell Speeds, Feeds and Performance Expectations
MojoKid writes: Intel's next-generation Broadwell Y (now known as the Core M processor) is set to ship on schedule for the end of the year. The company, occasionally flagged with criticism of its delays on the chip and with its IDF show rampingup next week, is sharing more detail on the upcoming speeds, feeds, features and performance characteristics of its new 14nm mobile platform. Intel's Broadwell-Y lineup initially consists of three chips with apparently very little difference, except for clock speed. Base idle frequencies tip-toe along at 800MHz to 1.1GHz, with max turbo frequencies up to 2.6GHz for the dual-core chips that Intel is announcing today. All parts are able to hit a very low 4.5 Watt TDP (Thermal Design Power) power envelope. Intel is also claiming clock-for-clock gains at the CPU level but also a 40 percent gain in graphics performance, versus the previous generation low power Haswell architecture. Larger, premium tablets and 2-in-1 devices are expect to start shipping at a trickle in Q4, with a larger volume ramp in Q1.
and the GPU drivers have been mainlined in the Kernel for everyone to see for several months already.
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Same performance, less power. Thinner, smaller, lighter devices.
Not much news on the high-end though. Which is fine, I suppose. The bottleneck in the desktop is still the GPU (for games) and file I/O (for everything else. Helloooo SSDs!)
It looks like Intel is making the GPU larger and more powerful with each iteration.
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As in no discernible improvement in performance even across multiple generations. Intel's process-reduction strategy made sense in the past for improving battery life but now that notebooks are pushing 8+ hours on reasonably-sized batteries I don't think it's enough anymore.
I hear these are headed for the premium end of the tablet market, with the usual unsat display resolution. I.E. not going to move units.
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4ghz per core "turbo" to 5.1 is what is needed, and where the hell is the 8 core i9 processor?
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Why just tablets? This sounds like a full powered, full featured processor for smart phones and a serious attack against AMD's mobile market share.
Their marketing promises are largely useless (productivity up to 19% better? 3-D graphics up to 47% better? What does that even mean?) but with graphics, wireless, and fast processing in a low power chip they're already there.
When I saw a mention of a "small L3 cache" I looked at Intel's site (warning: PDF) which also didn't five actual L3 cache sizes. By the way you'll find more technical information about the chip there than in the article. L2 is 256k per core. Cache aside in general it's a solid midrange processor at mobile level power usage. Here's hoping to see them in a phone soon.
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Because this will surely sink that doomed ship, AMD, once and for a!!
The bookBook requires a lot less than that.
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I'm looking for a new desktop system and one of the big things for me is watts consumed at idle and near idle. I don't like to turn my computer off, I don't like to hibernate it. But I do leave it idle for long perionds of time, of course with background processes it isn't 100% idle, more like 99%.
But I am having a really hard time finding information on what cpus & chipsets are good about idle power consumption. Lots of information about peak consumption but very little about how low it can go (and how fast it can switch in and out of low power modes).
Can anyone help me out?
It's pretty clear that both the summary and the article are only concerned about mobile Broadwells, and only a very few models at that. But good luck finding that specified anywhere in the verbiage. Myself, I couldn't care less about mobile. For god's sake, throw us a bone about what to expect from Broadwell DESKTOP.
These days phone chips have TDPs running around 8-10W, like Exynos 5250's 8W max TDP. If you look at perf/watt at the top end, Intel's chips are still very securely in the lead.
Yeah, the ARM chips can still clock down way lower, but throwing around numbers like 0.2W max is just being disingenuous.
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Compare these to the Mullins stuff AMD is selling today. Intel needs to keep in the news that they're going to have something real soon now to keep people from buying AMD.
Is also around 5W with CPU and GPU. So what's the big deal Intel? And we're not talking about piddly little ARMs with poor memory bandwidth, we're talking DDR3 1600MHz-1866Mhz or in some of the new ARMs DDR4.
Cortex-A15 chews through power at an impressive rate, comfortably consuming more than 4 watts during load Ã" and thatÃ(TM)s with Samsung throttling the CPU and GPU when it hits 4W; the actual TDP allows for up to 8W.
Sure, these CPUs are fast but who spends $270 on CPU for a phone or even a tablet.