News - Intel Core i7-4770K Haswell CPU benchmarked and priced

[HalloweenJack]

Lol. I gave you the long version to give you a second chance to realise what I said in my original post, which is that I'm not interested in gaming, so no, I don't know about AMD's latest APU performance. I couldn't give a rat's ass about it; 60fps in something that I never play is 60fps more than I need. ;o)

thats nice for you - but other people do buy them to game hence the generic question.

[Turquoisetim]

I wonder if they will use this technology to make something compatible with the earlier mopther boards

[eugenius]

Still no 6core mainstream from Intel? Keep your 2500K folks.

[Willzzz]

That's because 6 core isn't mainstream, you want the extreme option you pay for it.

[benegerton1985]

That's because 6 core isn't mainstream, you want the extreme option you pay for it.

I have a six core that only cost me £95.

[eugenius]

That's because 6 core isn't mainstream, you want the extreme option you pay for it.

Yeah, Intel needs more money for the same. Maybe they can get some suckers to upgrade to the last shiny thing.

You have absolutely no reason to upgrade from a 2500k to a Haswell, that's a tick and a tock already, it's sad.

If you just run mainstream stuff and games you also have minimal reasons to upgrade if you have a first gen i5 or an overclocked core2quad.

Intel should release 6core mainstream and make some real progress already, the games just began scaling (better) to quad core.

What they'll probably do is make some improvement on mobile and ignore desktop again. Like Apple and everybody else does. The innovation is now in smartphones and tablets and Intel is still not a player there, they're becoming the Microsoft of hardware, an ugly monopoly with clay feet.

[Willzzz]

Oh please, don't start comparing AMD with Intel, they have totally different architectures.

Here are the latest games benchmarked by CPU, please show me which benefits from 6-core:
http://www.techspot.com/review/648-s...nce/page4.html
http://www.techspot.com/review/645-t...nce/page5.html
http://www.techspot.com/review/642-c...nce/page6.html

Sure the i7-3960k is always top, but there's frequently no real benefit against the i5-3470 certainly not against the 3770k let alone the 4770k.

[eugenius]

If you don't have mainstream multicore hardware you don't get mainstream multicore software. Software follows hardware.

Developers will not develop for a part of the market (8core AMD), they develop for the lowest common denominator. As long as Intel remains at 4 core, multicore optimization will scale to just 4 cores in anything except easy to parallel tasks.

It's like PhysX, it's great but since NVidia refuses to allow it to run on AMD nobody cares about it.

[Willzzz]

But the 3770k already has 8 threads, developers are free to develop for 8 threads.

If Intel haven't sold enough 8 thread processors to make them mainstream, why would they start on 6 core processors?