Intel's Sandy Bridge Architecture

Tom's Hardware takes a look at Intel's next-gen Sandy Bridge architecture, armed with up to four cores, integrated HD Graphics 3000, on-die PCI Express, memory control, and the Quick Sync pipeline.

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Science & Technology

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• sandy bridge
• technology
• 32 nm
• tom's hardware
• quick sync
• hd graphics 3000
• chris angelini

[MrSuckmyballs32]

wait so Sandy bridge is a replacement for the Nahelem architecture?

then what about Bloomfield, i mean when they are saying about their previous generations chipsets, are they talking about LGA 1156 or LGA 1366?

[chrisangelini]

@MrSuckmyballs32 Bloomfield is based on Nehalem. Sandy Bridge ends up faster than most Bloomfield-based CPUs, yes.

[thelasthallow]

Link to the actual tests?

[chrisangelini]

@thelasthallow the complete review is on tomshardware. (youtube blocks the links).

[HerkimerWinooski]

Talk faster!

[starscream2092]

So What Is Better ? INTEL Core i7-2600K (Sandy) 4x 3,4 GHz or INTEL Core i7-960 4x 3,2 GHz

[DavidJasonSoto]

Great fucking review! 

[urlwretch]

Speaking too fast!

[Goodygums]

JUST LIKE AMD! 

[PatomokNoya]

How about Bugging Windows ? )))))

[xStalkerxx]

Well it's a good start. With the actual very slow progress in GPU base ($500 fucking bucks for 10FPS increase) , i wont be surprised if in the not to distant future, one of these could at least match the power of an 8800GTX. If not already!!!!

[alex14469]

I use my PC for Gaming and Browsing and there is no way Sandy Bridge CPUs will offer enough performance increase in those two applications to justify the price tag of a new motherboard and a new CPU. One of it's biggest new features, the integrated GPU is useless for me also since I doubt it will match the performance of my GTX 460. I'll wait for full support for USB3/SATA3 and maybe PCIe3. I'll wait for a more dramatic performance increase, maybe Ivy Bridge. BTW before getting my i7 I used a P4