14 DAY TRIAL // Computex 2013 hasn't started yet, since it will take place in Taipei, Taiwan between tomorrow (June 4) and Saturday (June 8). Things have already started moving though, and Intel is right there at the front of the convoy.
Over the past few months, a lot of information was shared by Intel and, more importantly, leaked through various channels, about the Haswell series of central processing units.
The fourth generation of Core i3, Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs has now been released. Or at least detailed in an official capacity.
Oddly enough, the mobile lineup hasn't been fully detailed, although Intel did share the core features, which we'll explore separately.
The desktop collection has been fully listed, however. There are fourteen chips in the line if we're reading things right, all but one quad-cores.
Of those, eight are sure to ship through retail, while the others could be OEM parts, sold only as part of already configured OEM PCs.
As odd as it may sound, only three chips have Hyper-Threading technology (double the number of logical cores vs. physical ones).
The big names are Core i7-4770K and Core i7-4770 (quad-core, 8 threads). At the opposite end of the spectrum there is that lone dual-core we have mentioned, Core i5-4570T.
All newcomers possess GT2 integrated graphics of varying performance, from 1.15 GHz to 1.25 GHz.
Speaking of clock speeds, the x86-64 cores themselves range from 2 GHz to 3.5 GHz (base) and 3 GHz to 3.9 GHz (Turbo Boost).
For those who don't know, the GT2 graphics chip is also called HD 4600 and has 20 execution units.
Other features that all CPUs share include a PCI Express 3.0 controller, 8 MB L3 cache, a dual-channel memory controller and, for the K-series, unlocked multipliers (good for overclocking).
The full feature and specifications list can be found in the adjoining table. Prices range from under $200 / €200 to $350 / €350.
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