Intel Unveils First Batch of Haswell Processors

Intel released on Saturday its first round of "Haswell" chips, the fourth-generation Core processors that will be the company's last set of chips produced for desktop motherboards

The line succeeds Ivy Bridge, the company's previous series of third-generation Core processors

PC Pro reports that so far the chips have shown significant improvements over Ivy Bridge when used on the Core i7-4440K processor — particularly in the graphics department:

"The Core i7-4440K showed an overall improvement of almost 10% in our Real World Benchmarks, scoring 1.16 compared to 1.06 for the last-generation Ivy Bridge i7-3770K. However, the real performance boost comes with the integrated graphics, delivering a 58% improvement over its Ivy Bridge equivalent" Read more...

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