Ivy Bridge notebooks

Jan 18, 2012 by Ivy Fan

We all know what Intel is planning to store for us with their new Ivy Bridge notebooks desktop lineup, but now we’re getting a look into what they have planned for their mobile CPU lineup as well.

New Ivy Bridge notebooks processors

Intel is going away from the Low Voltage processors rated at 25W and instead adopting the Ultra Low Voltage processors rated at 17W known as as Ultra or U-series CPUs. In the Ivy Bridge notebooks the new standard voltage processors, known as from before as the “M-series”. They will be introducing as well mobile processors rated at 35W, 45W, and 55W variants which when you look at it, non that lesser comparing to the previous Sandy Bridge mobile platform. The new Ivy Bridge notebooks M-Series or standard voltage processors will range with its standard clocks from 2.6GHz on dual-core i5 to a much higher 2.9Ghz quad-core i7.

List of Ivy Bridge notebooks M-series processors

As you can see most of these Ivy Bridge notebooks processors mark a very high jump in clock speeds over current Sandy Bridge models. For example the 3820QM and 3720QM i7 CPUs have a 400MHz increase in comparison to the original Sandy Bridge mobile CPUs in that class. These are also the processors which we are most likely to find them into a MacBook Pro notebook, opposed to the U-Series lineup (were talking about them at next paragraph), which are going to replace current Sandy Bridge low-voltage CPUs in notebook/ultrabook like the MacBook Air. Before we start to talk about the U-Series models, here is the full Ivy Bridge notebooks M-Series list of processors:

• 3rd Generation Core i7-3920XM Extreme 2.9GHz
• 3rd Generation Core Quad-Core i7-3820QM 2.7GHz
• 3rd Generation Core Quad-Core i7-3720QM 2.6GHz
• 3rd Generation Core Dual-Core i7-3520M 2.9GH
• 3rd Generation Core Core i5 3360M 2.8 GHz
• 3rd Generation Core Core i5 3320M 2.6 GHz

Other Ivy Bridge notebooks features

As for the Ultra or U-Series product line, which are probably going to debut in ultrabook devices, at launch of Ivy Bridge notebooks Intel plans on making a low speed 2GHz Core i7 and a 1.8GHz core i5. i7 will be able to use its turbo to go to 3GHz in dual-core mode, while single-core mode will get him to the 3.2GHz limit. The i5, on the other hand, will get 2.6GHz in dual-core mode, and 2.8GHz in single-core mode. Here’s what we know about the release dates of this mobile processors, DDR3 memory speed and  support amount, multiple external displays, and supported graphics. Unlike Sandy Bridge processors, all of the new Ivy Bridge notebooks dual-core will support DDR3 memory at 1600MHz (versus the old 1333MHz), while all of the new mobile CPUs wil have a higher maximum graphics clocks than their Ivy Bridge desktop counterparts, which is kinda interesting. CPUs will also support Intel HD Graphics 4000 architecture. It’s will drastically increase the performance of all notebook/ultrabook on any gaming field. If you ask us, we are more excited about this than the raw performance of the new Ivy Bridge notebooks processor lineup. Also there is a great news/fact that the processors will support three displays (including the devices internal display), meaning we can have multiple external displays on a future notebooks to come. When it comes to when these CPUs might become available to OEMs, the quad-core offerings are scheduled for mid April, while the others are listed for a May launch.