Intel Promises Big Performance With Sandy Bridge
The next big "leap ahead" for Intel.
We know that the next big thing to come from Intel is Sandy Bridge, which will be the biggest CPU overhaul since Nehalem.
Intel CEO Paul Otellini made mention of the upcoming processor generation, saying that it'll be the biggest leap the company's made yet in terms of processing power.
While Intel would never encourage prospective customers to hold off on a new PC – especially leading up to the hot holiday buying season – the CEO's enthusiasm for Sandy Bridge could give reason to wait until 2011.
In closing, I want to mention our next processor family codenamed Sandy Bridge. This quarter, we began volume production of Sandy Bridge and expect to ship revenue units in Q4 as we prepare for systems launch in the first quarter of 2011. Sandy Bridge represents the largest increase in computing performance in our history. This is a truly stunning product that we can’t wait to bring to market. Early demand from customers is much greater than we originally expected and we anticipate a very fast ramp.
Source: Seeking Alpha
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As long as the price isn't also a big increase.
Anyway, will be very interesting to see just how big of a performance it offers over say i7 950. Anything will be a big increase compared to my Q6600 anyway.
It's going to need to be if Bulldozer is as powerful as rumoured. However, it'll sell on reputation anyway, so even if the gains aren't as impressive as Nehalem over Core 2, Intel should still make a packet off the new design.
Bulldozer should show a similar performance boost over Phenom II as the Athlon (Socket A) did over K6-2, which makes for exciting times ahead if you're in the market for a new setup, but Intel needs to price Sandy Bridge aggressively, otherwise they may leave the door open for AMD.
Judging by what we know of Sandy Bridge, it'll be good. And Intel is saying the same, although in an over-the-top marketing way. Nothing new, just move along.
To the posters that keep touting how fantastic Bulldozer will be: we don't know nearly enough about it to make any sort of accurate prediction about the architecture. Sure, it looks promising, but I'd be rich if I'd get a dime for each promising idea that didn't deliver.
I'm not negatively commenting AMD here, I think Intel deserves to go flat on its face as much as anyone, but attributing superpowers to AMD without performance numbers to match these claims is just... fanboi-ish.
The only thing we know so far is that Interlagos outpaces Magny-Cours in integer-based operations... but is it unreasonable to expect it to improve in other areas as well?
Don't forget that I said "rumoured" - we only know of internal AMD testing and it wasn't that specific. Additionally, considering Bulldozer is a new architecture and not another refresh of K8, that in itself should mean it'll be noticeably faster than Phenom II. There's very little reason as to why AMD would release it if they wanted to stay competitive knowing it was barely an improvement over an 8-year old architecture.
How high is the performance leap? No benchmark is available.
Also, How high is the price leap? No infos is available
These valid for both AMD Bulldozer and Intels Sandy Bridge.
That is why I am willing to wait until both of them are available in the market and properly benchmarked.
I am very eager to know the performance boost I would get from either Bulldozer or Sandy Bridge compared to my Q6600 (PC) or my i7 720M (Laptop).
Also eager to know if I could even afford the new procs.
guanyu210379's comments make sense.