14 DAY TRIAL // Officially launched at the beginning of January, Intel's Sandy Bridge processor lineup was initially comprised out of 29 SKUs, but the count will continue to grow as Intel has plans to release a wide number of CPUs based on this architecture in the coming months, including the Core i3-2105 and Core i5-2405S processor which are slated to arrive in Q2 2011.
The Intel Core i3-2105 and Core i5-2405S will pack two and respectively four CPU cores, shared L3 cache, DDR3 memory controller and HD 3000 graphics controller on a single die.
As CPU-World reports, both processors feature SIMD instructions support (up to SSE4) as well as the newly introduced AVX (Advanced Vector Extensions) instruction set.
The first of the two, the more powerful Core i5-2405S, pairs the four processing cores available with 6 MB of L3 cache and its base clock frequency is set at 2.5 GHz.
Depending on the load placed on the CPU, the base clock can be increased up to 3.3GHz thanks to Intel's Turbo Boost 2.0 technology.
Just like all the other Core i5 processors in Intel's Sandy Bridge lineup, the 2405S doesn't feature Hyper-Threading support.
This technology, however, is enabled in the dual-core Intel Core i3-2105 CPU which has a base frequency of 3.1GHz, 3 MB L3 cache, Quick Sync Video, AVX, but lacks Turbo Boost and AES support.
Both processors have their TDP rated at 65W, are compatible with the LGA 1155 socket, and are almost indistinguishable from Core i3-2400S and i3-2100 models except for the HD 3000 integrated GPU.
Compared to the HD 2000, the graphics core packed inside the Core i5-2405S and i3-2105 CPUs doubles the number of execution units available.
Together with these two processors, the second quarter of 2011 will also mark the arrival of Intel's first Sandy Bridge-based processors.