14 DAY TRIAL // Recently, it has been reported that Intel has decided to release its next generation of Haswell central processing units in April, and that there will be 20 chips in total, or more. Now, we have a confirmation.
It turns out there will be over 20 Haswell CPUs, but there won't only be Core series. The Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 Haswell processors number 18, but they aren't the only CPUs being created.
There are, in fact, six Pentium processors as well, all of them dual-core models with 3 MB cache memory and core clock speeds of 2.7 GHz to 3.4 GHz.
Also, there are three Celeron CPUs, also with 2 cores each, 2.5 GHz to 2.9 GHz clocks, and 2 MB cache memory.
The Core-series are, as one might expect, the most varied, with both dual-core and quad-core options, as well as a broad core performance range.
The dual-core ones have 4 MB cache memory, and the quad-core chips have 6 MB of 8 MB. Actually, only the Core i7-47xx have 8 MB cache.
So what does Intel expect to make the new chips sell? All of them have 100 MHz frequency advantage over their predecessors, but the rest of the specs are the same as on the ones currently on sale.
One of the more relevant processors in the list included on the left (courtesy of CPU World) is the Core i3-4360, the best dual-core of the lot, with 3.7 GHz frequency.
Core i5-4690 is the best Core i5 unit, a quad-core 3.5 GHz processor. Like in every series, though, there are slower chips with nonetheless similar value because of their lower TDP (higher energy efficiency).
As for the Core i7 series, the Core i7-4790 is the flagship, so to speak, with 4 cores, and 3.6 GHz clock.
Unlike the Celeron and Pentium CPUs, the Core-series have Hyper-Threading technology support, which means that the 2 or 4 cores become 4 and 8 threads (logical cores), respectively.