Intel announces Haswell-E, 8-Core CPU with DDR4 Support.

[WYP]

It is confirmed Haswell-E is coming, with support for DDR4 memory and an Extreme 8-Core CPU as it's flagship, it is set to soar to never before seen performance heights later this year.

Details are pretty scarce at the moment, all that is confirmed is shown in the picture above; 8 cores ,DDR4 support and it will becoming on Intel's X99 chipset.

Performance changes will be interesting, the move to the Haswell architecture from Ivy Bridge and to 8 cores from 6 will definitely give massive performance gains relative to Intel's current 2011 lineup.

DDR4 memory will be an interesting addition, both in terms of a pricing and a performance perspective, what exactly this change will bring to the enthusiast and workstation market at launch will remain unclear until launch.

Launch is confirmed to be in the second half of 2014.

Source- PCPER

 

[barnsley]

This is much more like it . I'd quite like to get this if the price is right.

 

[SuB]

ooo that gets me juices flowin'

 

[Tripp]

thanks Watsyerproblem, i have been trying to find info on this.

 

[SparkleDJackson]

lol. zangetsu will be downgraded to the family computer. or broken down and sold. we had a good run friend. until your ram pooped itself and the psu fan controller went turbo.

 

[Davva2004]

I am moist.

 

[barnsley]

it is an eight core so hopefully more stuff with make use of eight cores. FINALLY

 

[Silverstone-Z]

Sounds promising, but still waiting for more info on my future chip. Rumor was there would be a standard K 8-core and then the X 8-core. We'll see, but anticipate the X chip being about $1000.

 

[Seb.F]

I'm keeping my eye on HW-E - will be dumping my old SB-E setup for this and also dropping the Titans for Maxwell.

 

[shadowlewis]

ill need a winning lottery ticket for that lmao. would be nice to have a m-atx folding/gaming pc based on the x99 xD

 

[RizeAllard]

Now i have decided to wait for it. Somehow i can go on till that day with the current rig...

 

[cooperman]

knowing intel it will be......

Hopefully i am proven wrong because it's time to add more computers to my list of playtime project's

DDR4 8 CORE

 

[WYP]

My 1090T now feels so inadequate, getting a real upgrade itch now.

currently contemplating whether i can afford to upgrade my system, upgrading to Intel will be an expensive process, given that the AMD 8350 won't offer much (if any) extra performance per core.

 

[Wraith]

Interesting to see Intel giving it massive upto 20mb L3 Cache, it's usually an AMD trait to use large shared cache amounts. Anyway I'm excited to see this in action with some uber frequency RAM smashing some benches.

Conclusion - Your move AMD.

 

[cooperman]

currently contemplating whether i can afford to upgrade my system, upgrading to Intel will be an expensive process, given that the AMD 8350 won't offer much (if any) extra performance per core.

Well really the only advantage of upgradeing that cpu to a FX 8XXX cpu will be newer cpu instruction sets and higher memory support.

My AMD phenom ii x4 965 crushed my FX6100 when i made new a computer with it the only area's the bulldozzzer was better was with x264 encodeing with megui and some newer games that take advantage of new instruction sets.
The older cpu handled better in old game's that took advantage of AMD's 3D now.
But still the K10 cpu's have some raw horsepower and do have 6 actual cores and threads it's a shame we never saw a 8 core K10 phenom.

 

[SeekaX]

Interesting to see Intel giving it massive upto 20mb L3 Cache, it's usually an AMD trait to use large shared cache amounts. Anyway I'm excited to see this in action with some uber frequency RAM smashing some benches.

Conclusion - Your move AMD.

i7 extreme isn't really anything AMD can compete with. intel is too far ahead and it's too expensive to catch up.

 

[barnsley]

AMD gave up going after the extreme cpus since the i7-990x.

Although the 9590 does keep up with the 3930k for streaming games...

 

[Zoot]

This might be my next upgrade, depending on pricing and also if there's no new FX chip from AMD, it'll depend on what things look like come 2015.

I imagine the top 8-core is going to have the crazy pricetag of $1k just like the i7-4960X does now. Although my hope is to see a more affordable hex-core since the i7-4930k/3930k aren't at all cheap at the moment.

Sadly though the DDR4 isn't going to be cheap.

 

[Jason Tufts]

I can't wait for more information with the new haswell I hope too see a big leap forward in what computers can handle.

 

[NeverBackDown]

I saw this report earlier and also read that these Haswell-E chips will be using a better thermal solution.