Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge Processors Reach Overclockers
It appears that an Intel Core i7-3770K ‘Ivy Bridge’ 22nm processor landed in the hands of Taiwanese overclocker TOPPC. He must not be under an NDA as he disclosed having it and while he didn’t release any actual performance numbers, he did talk about performance. This looks to be a very recent stepping that has a 3.5GHz clock frequency. With Intel Turbo Boost technology the Core i7 3770K can ramp up to 3.9GHz on single threaded applications. TOPPC said that the performance of CPU is 10% better than the Intel Core i7-2600K. He also said that the memory controller i s golden as the maximum available memory option is now 2800 MHz. The Intel Core i7-3770K ‘Ivy Bridge’ processor is said to be coming out in April along with all of the Ivy Bridge CPUs, so expect a ton of leaks to start happening.
After testing the engineering version of Intel Core i7-3770K for two days, TOPPC summarized as follows:
- The performance of CPU is increased by 10% when compared to the Intel Core i7-2600K
- The performance of the memory controller is also increased, as the maximum available speed memory stood at 2800 MHz
- PCI Express 3.0 support
- Theoretically the temperature should be low but under load the CPU temperature readings are high
- Stability of multi-threaded benchmark has been achieved at a frequency of 4.8 GHz only
- At the time of announcement of Ivy Bridge, a benchmark for single-threaded operating frequencies will be at the level of 5,2-5,4 GHz and that of multi-threaded operating frequencies will fall just below 5 GHz.
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