The fastest real-world CPU on the market right now.
It's new CPU season at Intel with the launch of the Ivy Bridge family of
CPUs and the new Intel Core i7-3770K. It's the quickest of the new
breed and therefore likely to be the fastest CPU in the real world.
For
- Fantastic all round performance
- Much improved graphics
Against
- Graphics still not games worthy
- Not a big step forward overall
For starters, the new Intel Core i7 3770K still has four cores. And it's
not clocked any higher than the 2700K. Nor does it have any additional
cache memory.
All of which is rather odd when you consider it sports Intel's spangley new 22nm process and thus 3D Tri-gate transistors. You might think the shrink from 32nm to 22nm would allow for a couple more cores, or some clockspeed.
But apparently not.
What you do get is the latest upgrade for Intel's HD Graphics.
Now known as HD Graphics 4000, it gets an extra four execution units for a grand total of 16 along with Direct X 11 support.
Vital stats
Clockspeed - 3.5GHz (3.9GHz Turbo)
Cores - 4
Threads - 8
Cache - 8MB
Process - 22nm
Socket - Intel LGA 1155
The new Intel Core i7 3770K, at least in terms of the CPU side of things, is largely the same design, but based on 22nm technology.
The Intel Core i7 3770K gets the top HD Graphics 4000 core. With 16 execution units where the old Core i7s had but 12, you're looking at a third more hardware. Each unit has also been made more powerful and given DirectX 11 support.
The result is more performance.