14 DAY TRIAL // The high-end central processor unit market is not, in fact, dominated by the current-generation architecture from Intel. Instead, it is the previous generation that spawns the top-tier chips.
That is how Ivy Bridge CPUs were below Sandy Bridge-E in performance, and why Haswell CPUs will be below Ivy Bridge-E in turn.
There are three Ivy Bridge-E chips known right now, all of them compatible with Socket LGA 2011 motherboards and the X79 chipset.
The strongest is Core i7-4960X, with six cores, 12 threads, 3.6 GHz / 4 GHz clock speeds and 15 MB L3 cache.
The middle chip is Core i7-4930K, also a 6-core / 12-thread unit, but with 3.4 GHz / 3.9 GHz speed and 12 MB cache.
Finally, the Core i7-4820K is a quad-core / 8-thread unit with 3.7 GHz / 3.9 GHz speed and 10 MB cache.
All three have DDR3-1866 memory support and 130W TDPs.
According to VR-Zone, the three CPUs will debut in the second week of September.