14 DAY TRIAL // Intel will launch 20 or more new central processing units soon, powered by the Haswell architecture, but one of them has made it to market prematurely.
Called Core i5-4460T, it is a quad-core unit with a base frequency of 1.8 GHz, but a Turbo Boost maximum of 2.7 GHz.
It's a mid-range chip, more or less, with all the hallmarks of the Core i5-44x0S series, like AES and AVX2 instructions, Trusted Execution and HyperThreading technology (the OS sees and can use eight logical cores / threads instead of just 4).
Intel designed the newcomer with 6 MB of L3 cache memory, in case you were wondering, and managed to keep it in a 35W thermal envelope.
All in all, the Intel Core i5-4460T is not bad for the first Core i5 Haswell quad-core chip that also stays at 35W or less.
Chipzilla may have launched it early because, unlike the Haswell refresh, it isn't just a version of an existing chip with a better clock. It does not have a predecessor, so to speak
That said, the processor happens to possess a dual-channel DDR3 memory controller (1600 MHz) and HD 4600 integrated graphics (1.1 GHz). The price is of $182 / €132.