Possible Haswell ES Leak

[glo]

This is speculation upon an unverified ES sample. I'm not claiming it to be anything else, don't be hatin'.

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/Has...eak,20798.html

Haven't seen this posted here yet, so I figured I'd make a topic on it. Obviously this isn't 100% verified, but it does seem eerily legitimate considering it had a locked multiplier and an odd frequency of 2.8Ghz, kind of weird stuff to tack on to a made up chip if that was the case.

Anyways, it would be quite interesting if Intel ended up pulling an AMD with a step backwards (or even a sidestep in single core performance).

[DeltrusDisc]

Hopefully that's an i3!

Or even an i5 would be decent, but if it's the i7, those numbers would indeed, be disappointing.

[Saithes]

I'm pretty sure Haswell isn't intended to be a major CPU performance increase but rather a performance increase for the iGPU. Remember, Haswell is still on 22nm manufacturing tech. Intel has said in the past that Haswell will be around a 10% increase over Ivybridge cpu-wise. If that CPU was at 2.8GHz and the 4770K will be 3.5, 10% will actually be a reasonable increase given these "possible" benchmarks.