Intel Core I7 Sandy Bridge 2600

The Lineup

I don't include a lot of super markety slides in these launch reviews, merely this one is worthy of a mention:

Sandy Span is launching with no less than 29 different SKUs today. That's 15 for mobile and xiv for desktop. Jarred posted his full review of the mobile Core i7-2820QM, so cheque that out if you want the mobile perspective on all of this.

By comparison, this fourth dimension final year Intel announced 11 mobile Arrandale CPUs and 7 desktop parts. A year prior we got Lynnfield with 3 SKUs and Clarksfield with 3 likewise. That Sandy Bridge is Intel's biggest launch e'er goes without saying. It's too the nearly confusing. While Core i7 exclusively refers to processors with four or more cores (on the desktop at to the lowest degree), Cadre i5 can mean either 2 or iv cores. Core i3 is reserved exclusively for dual-core parts.

Intel promised that the marketing would all make sense one day. Here we are, two and a half years later, and the Cadre i-branding is no clearer. At the risk of upsetting all of Intel Global Marketing, perhaps we should return to just labeling these things with their clock speeds and core counts? After all, it'due south what Apple does—and that'due south a visitor that still refuses to put more than ane button on its mice. Maybe it'southward worth a attempt.

Cheque Jarred's commodity out for the mobile lineup, but on desktop here'south how it breaks down:

Processor	Cadre Clock	Cores / Threads	L3 Cache	Max Turbo	Max Overclock Multiplier	TDP	Cost
Intel Core i7-2600K	3.4GHz	4 / 8	8MB	3.8GHz	57x	95W	$317
Intel Core i7-2600	iii.4GHz	iv / viii	8MB	3.8GHz	42x	95W	$294
Intel Core i5-2500K	3.3GHz	iv / 4	6MB	iii.7GHz	57x	95W	$216
Intel Core i5-2500	3.3GHz	4 / iv	6MB	3.7GHz	41x	95W	$205
Intel Core i5-2400	3.1GHz	4 / iv	6MB	iii.4GHz	38x	95W	$184
Intel Core i5-2300	ii.8GHz	four / 4	6MB	3.1GHz	34x	95W	$177
Intel Core i3-2120	3.3GHz	2 / 4	3MB	Northward/A	N/A	65W	$138
Intel Core i3-2100	2.93GHz	2 / 4	3MB	Northward/A	Due north/A	65W	$117

Intel is referring to these chips as the 2nd generation Core processor family, despite three generations of processors carrying the Core compages proper noun before information technology (Conroe, Nehalem, and Westmere). The second generation is encapsulated in the model numbers for these chips. While all previous generation Core processors accept 3 digit model numbers, Sandy Bridge CPUs accept iv digit models. The start digit in all cases is a 2, indicating that these are "2nd generation" chips and the remaining three are business every bit usual. I'd look that Ivy Bridge will bandy out the two for a iii next year.

What you volition see more of this time around are alphabetic character suffixes post-obit the four digit model number. One thousand means what it did final time: a fully multiplier unlocked part (similar to AMD's Blackness Edition). The K-series SKUs are fifty-fifty more of import this time effectually as some Sandy Bridge CPUs will ship fully locked, equally in they cannot exist overclocked at all (more than on this later).

Processor	Core Clock	Cores / Threads	L3 Cache	Max Turbo	TDP
Intel Core i7-2600S	2.8GHz	four / 8	8MB	3.8GHz	65W
Intel Core i5-2500S	2.7GHz	iv / four	6MB	3.7GHz	65W
Intel Core i5-2500T	2.3GHz	iv / 4	6MB	3.3GHz	45W
Intel Cadre i5-2400S	2.5GHz	four / 4	6MB	three.3GHz	65W
Intel Core i5-2390T	ii.7GHz	2 / 4	3MB	three.5GHz	35W
Intel Core i5-2100T	2.5GHz	2 / 4	3MB	Northward/A	35W

There are likewise T and S series parts for desktop. These are generally aimed at OEMs building small form gene or power optimized boxes. The S stands for "performance optimized lifestyle" and the T for "ability optimized lifestyle". In actual terms the Ses are lower clocked 65W parts while the Ts are lower clocked 35W or 45W parts. Intel hasn't disclosed pricing on either of these lines merely expect them to behave noticeable premiums over the standard chips. There's nothing new about this approach; both AMD and Intel have washed it for a lilliputian while at present, it's merely more prevalent in Sandy Span than before.

More Differentiation

In the old days Intel would segment fries based on clock speed and enshroud size. Then Intel added core count and Hyper Threading to the list. Then hardware accelerated virtualization. With Sandy Span the matrix grows even bigger cheers to the on-die GPU.

Processor	Intel HD Graphics	Graphics Max Turbo	Quick Sync	VT-ten	VT-d	TXT	AES-NI
Intel Cadre i7-2600K	3000	1350MHz	Y	Y	Northward	Northward	Y
Intel Core i7-2600	2000	1350MHz	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Intel Core i5-2500K	3000	1100MHz	Y	Y	N	Northward	Y
Intel Core i5-2500	2000	1100MHz	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Intel Core i5-2400	2000	1100MHz	Y	Y	Y	Y	Y
Intel Core i5-2300	2000	1100MHz	Y	Y	North	Northward	Y
Intel Core i3-2120	2000	1100MHz	Y	Northward	N	Due north	N
Intel Cadre i3-2100	2000	1100MHz	Y	N	North	Northward	Y

While almost all SNB parts support VT-10 (the poor i3s are left out), only three support VT-d. Intel also uses AES-NI as a reason to strength users away from the i3 and towards the i5. I'll get into the difference in GPUs in a moment.

Introduction Overclocking: Effortless 4.4GHz+ on Air

Source: https://www.anandtech.com/show/4083/the-sandy-bridge-review-intel-core-i7-2600k-i5-2500k-core-i3-2100-tested/2

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