Firstly the Intel Core i7 4770K uses a brand new chipset, the 8 series chipset, which includes Z87. This chipset features up to 6 SATA III (6Gb/s) ports and totally removes legacy PCI support from the PCH meaning any motherboard vendors looking to add PCI have to use a third party chip.
The main focus with Haswell is driving people on older systems and architectures, such LGA 1156 and LGA 755, to upgrade to more energy efficient and better performing solutions.
As we mentioned in the introduction Intel sees the enthusiast segment as only a very small portion of the market. The Core i7 4770K is enthusiast, but the majority of the rest of Haswell is aimed at other desktop areas as well as the mobile market.
Haswell’s main key change is energy efficiency. It has no major changes in key pipelines but has improved code fetching, larger throughput and increased bandwidth which leads to greater clock-per-clock performance over Ivy Bridge and other predecessors.
Intel’s Haswell adds AVX2, which replaces the AVX found on Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge architectures. This gives greater performance and throughput for Haswell CPUs.
Intel’s major change to the enthusiast segment is the way Haswell is overclocked. You can now alter the base clock ratios to bring back that typical style of overclocking we saw on LGA 1366 and LGA 2011. Sandy Bridge brought the “multiplier-style” of overclocking to us and Haswell continues that but also offers you the flexibility of base clock tinkering.
Intel have tweaked voltages quite a bit since Ivy Bridge as the graph below demonstrates. The main change is an onboard integrated voltage regulation system that we have never really seen before.
The full line up of Intel Haswell Core i7 and i5 processors can be seen below. We are obviously looking at the Core i7 4770K today and you can see its full detail specifications below:
My sample is a terrible overclocker. This is my opinion and my opinion only, If you’re a primarily a gamer you no doubt have a discreet graphics card and are already rocking a 2600K or 3770K there is absolutely nothing to be gained by upgrading to this chip.
have you seen the power consumption of the 5GHz AMD 8150 vs the 4.9GHz 4770k after/before looking at their performance results?
you will end up spending more money in 1 month of use going AMD than going with Intel and every month after spend way more than you would going with an Intel Haswell set
electric bill is really overlooked and AMD is hoping to score with the numbers in call sign form instead of result form to stupid people
Consoles should use Intel not AMD for their design but if the coding is like ARM and Intel is slower than AMD in a non MS OS CGI platform then AMD is the best option.