- #INTEL TICK TOCK SANDY BRIDGE UPDATE#
- #INTEL TICK TOCK SANDY BRIDGE UPGRADE#
- #INTEL TICK TOCK SANDY BRIDGE SOFTWARE#
- #INTEL TICK TOCK SANDY BRIDGE SERIES#
Paramount to adoption is the critical thinking that developers need to consider to successfully transition to the Sandy Bridge microarchitecture.įigure 1.
#INTEL TICK TOCK SANDY BRIDGE SERIES#
Changes to Intel’s Xeon® E3 and E5 series of microprocessors include new instructions used to accelerate common encryption tasks and floating point calculations, as well as increased core counts and cache per CPU.
#INTEL TICK TOCK SANDY BRIDGE UPDATE#
In order for applications to tap the full power of these new devices, developers will need to update not only their application software, but also the hardware platforms on which those applications run.
#INTEL TICK TOCK SANDY BRIDGE SOFTWARE#
for now.Intel’s new Sandy Bridge microarchitecture is changing how software applications run and perform on server platforms. Really the only thing DDR4 means for the enthusiast crowd is that DDR4 chips will run cooler than DDR3. And depending on timings, it may or may not actually have a noticeable impact on performance. The fastest memory we will see at launch is probably 3200 MHz. So there is no reason that suggest that DDR4 will be amazingly fast out of the box, considering that most programs aren't limited by the speed of memory.īut DDR4 was designed to run up to 4266 MHz, so we WILL see faster memory eventually, just not right away. And if you read current benchmarks, the difference between 1600 MHz, 1866 MHz and 2133 MHz memory isn't even noticeable in the vast majority of programs. The launch speed of DDR4 is 2133 MHz, which is already obtainable with DDR3. There also is a speed bump with DDR4, but we won't see it right away. Great for virtualization in servers, but that's about it. Meaning we could eventually see 128 GB sticks of memory. The 2nd focus of DDR4 is a greater memory density. There is also a new sleep mode in DDR4 that will greatly help sleeping mobile devices. The result is the memory will run at 1.2V instead of the current 1.5V of DDR3. The major focus of DDR4 is power savings. But if Haswell-E tanks (doubtful), I'll wait until Cannonlake.Īt any rate, I plan to sit on my Haswell/DDR3 platform for at least another year, unless Haswell-E knocks it out of the park and the price is right. So more likely than not I'll go with the "tick" after Haswell-E, which I assume to be Broadwell-E. I read rumors that Haswell-E coming this September, which is at least 6-8 months before I expected it.
#INTEL TICK TOCK SANDY BRIDGE UPGRADE#
When I started looking at an upgrade for my Core 2 Duo, Haswell had just released and the X79 platform was already looking fairly dated (yet still expensive), which is why I went with Haswell instead of Ivy Bridge-E. But the question remains if it will be worth the upfront cost. The thing about Intel's enthusiast-level chips is that you could probably get away with doing every 2.5 to 3 generations instead of every other generation. My next upgrade will either be X99/Haswell-E, Broadwell-E (assuming it will exist), or Cannonlake. I just have a lot of DDR3 sitting around, so I wanted to make sure I got a decent amount of use out of them before they are thrown into my bin of DDR2 sticks until the end of time. I highly doubt that DDR4 will be that much of a real world performance gain.
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