Ivy or Sandy

[foreversmiling]

Hi all
Does anyone have an idea of what sort of impact will a ivy bridge processor and motherboard have over a sandybridge proc and m/board in terms of descrete gaming?

Just wondering, since i'm ordering a sandy bridge proc and m/board configuration soon and don't know if I should wait for Ivy!


Any help appreciated

[bg92]

If I was in your position I would wait for ivy, as it is going to bring some improvements.

[richag]

stealing someone elses topic but IVY Bridge is slated for a 23rd April release when will we see these components available at PCS?

[dangro474]

At this point it would be beyond foolish not to wait for Ivy Bridge.

[mantadog]

stealing someone elses topic but IVY Bridge is slated for a 23rd April release when will we see these components available at PCS?

Probably on the 24th if that is when they are being launched. It wont be long after they are launched as obviously PCS will want to get them up for sale ASAP to attract the new upgraders

[ellspeedy]

Will Ivy bring that much of a performance increase? Had a quick glance online and one site that had supposedly benchmarked Ivy said the CPU increase was 5-15%, however the GPU was significant at 20-50%. When it says the GPU does that mean the integrated graphics?

[mantadog]

Yeah exactly. I believe the CPU performance will be approx 10% better with the GPU significantly more. Thats not the only reason to buy the ivy bridge though as it will support other cool features such as PCIe 3.0 which will allow you to take full advantage of GPU's in the future.

[ellspeedy]

Im slightly confused as to what this means.

So when you say the Ivy bridges will take full advantage of the GPU, i didnt realise the CPU would have an affect on the actual graphics card, i assumed they were seperate?

Guessing im wrong though haha, thats what you get for only getting up to date on computer tech in the past few months!

[mantadog]

The PCI controller is on the chip itself so if your sandy bridge processor only supports up to 2.0, the hardware only supports up to 2.0 and you can't change that. Ivy bridge has a PCI 3.0 controller so i can take advantage of the PCIe 3.0 slots on the motherboard.

I wouldn't say ivy bridge takes any more advantage of the GPU than the sandy bridge chips do because at the moment, i think even the GTX 680 runs fine without PCIe 3.0 even though it supports it, because it doesn't saturate the bandwitch of PCIe 2.0. It's more about whats coming next generation i would say, even though you might get a small advantage from ivy bridge now it will be a while before you start needing it properly

[ellspeedy]

Oh ok that makes a bit more sense thanks

So the Ivy is more about future proofing right now?
Im guessing there is no idea of pricing of Ivy right now?