Intel’s newest processor based on the Sandy Bridge E architecture, the Core i7-3820, is in Japanese stores appeared. The affordable version of Intel’s most powerful line of consumer products is, however, not yet formally released.
The Core i7-3820 is the ‘cheap’ little brother of Intel’s flagship for the consumer market, the Core i7-3960X. Other than that hexacore, that for a small nine hundred euro of owner changes, the cost of the 3820 is less than three hundred euros. The lower price means that two cores specified; the 3820 is a quad-core with 10MB of L3 cache, where the hexacore variant is about 15MB cache.
The standaardkloksnelheid of the 3820 is 3.6 GHz, but enabled Turbo Boost technology increases this to 3.9 GHz. The processor supports hyperthreading and has a tdp of 130W. Since Intel, the X – and K-version of Sandy Bridge E released for overclockers, would the 3820 for them what is less suitable. In Dutch webshops is the processor for about three hundred euros sparsely available and the delivery time is, with only a few exceptions, unknown.