14 DAY TRIAL // There are already a bunch of desktop and laptop Haswell central processing units up for sale, but Intel will release some more, as revealed by the Launch Update document of last month (June 2013).
Ultimately, there will be quite a few chips up for order, and sold as part of pre-configured PCs, desktops and laptops both.
Of those, we will only look at four now. Two of them will be sold as Celeron processors, while the others will become additions to the Core i5 line.
The Celeron CPUs are both dual-core units with 2 threads, which means they lack Hyper-Threading technology.
On the other hand, they have 2 MB of cache memory, HD graphics with a frequency of 650 MHz (1,050 MHz when in turbo mode), and DDR3-1333 memory support.
Thus, the clock frequencies and the TDP (thermal design powers) are the only things that set the chips apart.
The Celeron G1620T is a 2.4 GHz processor (not Turbo Boost technology) working on 35W of power, while the Celeron G1630 is a 2.8 GHz, 55W chip.
In comparison, the Core i5 processors are distinctly superior, even though they, too, lack Hyper-Threading technology.
They are quad-core processors with 6 MB of L3 cache memory, DDR3-1600 memory, and HD 2500 graphics of 650/1,050 MHz.
The Core i5-3340 has speeds of 3.1 GHz / 3.3 GHz and a TDP of 77W, while the Core i5-3340S is a 2.8 GHz / 3.3 GHz unit with 65W TDP.
All in all, the newcomers offer small speed improvements over their Ivy Bridge-based counterparts and, in the case of the Core i5 models at least, support advanced features like virtualization technology for directed I/O, and AES instructions.
These specifications were found in a processor reference table in an Intel desktop roadmap, which was leaked earlier this week and was examined by CPU World.