Intel Core i7 2600K and Core i5 2500K

After the last "Tick" Intel is now at the beginning of the next "tock" carried out step. Is well known from Intel in exchange "Tock" steps, the micro-architecture of the CPU's to speed up technical innovation, the processors further. The new architecture codenamed "Sandy Bridge". We may draw two copies of the new processors with us in the newsroom a test. First, the new top model Core i7-2600K and the other is the new mainstream flagship Core i5-2500K with integrated graphics unit. Everything on the new socket 1155.

The Sandy Bridge architecture

Like its predecessor, codenamed Westmere, based on the Nehalem architecture, the new 32nm Sandy Bridge processors in the proven methods are made. Intel launches new processors for the time being not in the Extreme Edition. It requires all desktop processors introduced today the new socket 1155th This has only one pin less than the old socket 1156, but is not compatible, as a special notch which uses the old processor prevents the new socket. A successor for the high-end processors based on the 1366 base with triple channel memory interface is currently not scheduled and is expected before the second half of 2011 see the light of the world. The new processors come with 4 cores in the Core i7 Hyper-Threading enabled, so are the operating system 8 cores "faked". With the i5 Core CPU's hyperthreading is disabled it. The DDR3 memory interface has been increased to 1333. The "Die", then the processor without being documented package, now with 995 million transistors on an area of 214 square mm. Here already the graphics processor and 8 MB of L3 cache are included. When the cache has not changed in size, the L2 cache and the L1 cache still have 256 or 32 Kbytes.