Choose from laptops Sandy and Ivy Bridge

Choose from laptops Sandy and Ivy Bridge Ivy Bridge mainly upgraded in terms of graphics processing chips integrate 22 nm manufacturing technology, while keeping the same Sandy Bridge architecture.

If compared to the time that appears every year, Ivy Bridge is slower than his "brother" is Sandy Bridge. Chips Core 2 generation i present soon at CES in January 2011 while the chip generation 3 to April 2012 and sold out after more than 2 months

The model laptop integrated generation Intel Core i 3 has begun to "dock" in Vietnam from about mid-June past but not so Sandy Bridge chips that instantly disappeared. This is still the logical choice in some segments as well as the needs of consumers. To take the decision to fit user needs to understand the upgrade as well as change between computers using two lines of new chips.

Here are some points to note when choosing between the two series.

Ivy Bridge as the "tick tock" Sandy Bridge "".

Intel always comes to the phrase "tick-tock" in the process of upgrading its processors every year. Can understand simply "tick" only a year with the usual upgrade process while "tock" refers to the major upgrade and more holistic. In this case, the "tick" associated with Ivy Bridge and "tock" is for Sandy Bridge.

Ivy Bridge is not a major upgrade compared to the previous generation such as Sandy Bridge. essentially, Poison Ivy, Bridge upgrades the process handle but kept architecture compared to the previous generation. Even so, the upgrade of Intel graphics processor led to call this a tick + to emphasize the change. The chip Core i generation 3 also uses a 22 nm manufacturing process compared to 32 nm by Sandy Bridge help consume less electricity than in theory.

Ivy Bridge faster processor, but only a little.

The test showed an improvement in performance between the two chips on the processor speed is not much. According to PCMag, CineBench 11.5 render test on R with chip Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge is 1.65 while the Core i7-2700K (Sandy Bridge) is 1.58 points. The point about PCMark7 's processor is 3,679 and 3,867 and time in Photoshop CS5 is 2 minutes 47 seconds compared with 2 minutes 50 seconds.

The previously announced by Intel also pointed out that the new chips faster than the previous generation from 4 to 6%.

Ivy Bridge chips consume less power.

With the production of smaller 32 nm, 22 nm, Ivy Bridge is expected to consume less power than his predecessor. This was true for trials of PCMag. With two model chips Core i7-2700Kvà the Core i7-3770K and use a program such as Extech Datalogger to measure energy consumption. When most were in laminated "rested" with consumption of about 71 watt, then processors Core i7-2700K (Sandy Bridge) consume energy lượnglà 166.5 Watts and Core i7-3700K is 136.3 wattt. The less is quite substantial.

However, this seems not really to see clearly over time using a laptop. In some experiments with new universal laptop Ivy Bridge recently (from 14 to 20 million VND) is the time used batteries still around more than 3 hours, the equivalent of the old models used chips).

Ivy Bridge permanently support better graphics but still not enough to play the game "dinosaur".

Ivy Bridge improvement much about integrated graphics chip.The most significant change across the Ivy Bridge that is capable of handling graphics chip integrated Intel HD Graphics 3000. By building upon the 22 nm and supports a maximum resolution of 4 k as well as supporting 3 screen instead of just 2 screen as before. In terms of the overall GPU of the Ivy Bridge faster by Sandy up to 60% while the shader effect processing integrated test system can more than 30 times.

However, the reality also shows if it wants to play the game 3D graphics as strong as Max Payne 3, Batman: Arkham City, The Elder Scrolls v: Skyrim, users will still need to a removable graphics card from AMD and Nvidia. Therefore, if is a gamer, you really should consider a range of funds to choose a more powerful graphics card configurations by this point with chip Ivy is often quite expensive.

Need a minimum of 14 million to think of Ivy Bridge current laptop.

Ivy Bridge current Laptop each minimum 14 million.In the laptop first launched from June and up to 2-3 months, will not have the appearance of line Core i3 platform Ivy Bridge and all new laptops market in Vietnam at present are priced out 14 million (using Core i5 or Core i7). Therefore, users of the popular don't really have high needs students or users, the model laptop Ivy Bridge doesn't really fit.

Ivy Bridge was not too expensive, Sandy Bridge has cheap deal.

Multiple users in Vietnam have psychological anxiety when a new product will be expensive and wait out the cheaper new buying decisions. This is not really true to the Ivy Bridge chips. Discount product roadmap is in the dictionary of the manufacturer but if to see prices averaging around 14 to 16 million is not high compared with the equivalent Core i5 or i7 chip of Sandy Bridge is only about half a year ago. Therefore, if indeed there is demand, technology enthusiast or big expenses for buying a laptop then choosing the Ivy Bridge very reasonable.

Meanwhile, Sandy Bridge laptops starting back slowly on low-priced segment. The model uses the chip even includes removable pretty powerful graphics card also only range priced at about 11 to 12 million.

By VMAX