First Ivy Bridge-E Xeon Engineering Sample Spotted, Core Count Increased To Eight
Intel’s upcoming HEDT (high-end desktop) family of processors, Ivy Bridge-E, is slated for release in Q3 2013 and will replace the current range of Sandy Bridge-E processors. With almost half a year to go before the scheduled release we have our first leaked CPU-Z validation taken using one of these processors.
As seen in the picture above, the CPU is an engineering sample with a stock clock speed of 1.60 GHz which has been overclocked to 2.00 GHz, not a very impressive jump by any measure but to be expected from such early silicon running on an Intel X79 BIOS with premature BIOS. The most interesting part of the validation is the core count – a total of eight threads with HyperThreading confirms that the desktop silicon core count won’t end at six with the LGA2011 platform. Source — HWBOT
