New Intel Haswell Processor Refresh on the Way?

Updated: January 14, 2014

We’re only a couple weeks into the new year but it looks like rumors have already started to circulate that Intel is gearing up to refresh its Haswell processor line with 20 new CPU options sometime in the Q2 of 2014. We haven’t heard an official word, but the guess is sometime after April.

Digitimes, who originally broke this story is claiming that among these new processors, the list will include -

Core i7 4790,
Core i5 4690
Core i3 4360
Pentium G3450
Celeron G1840
Core i7 4790S (low power)
Core i5 4590S (low power)
Core i3 4150T (low power)

The is also a claim that says Intel will keep the flow of new CPUs coming into Q3 by releasing their Haswell K series and Haswell-E. No mention of pricing or anything of the nature, so for now we’ll have to keep our eyes peeled for any additional news. Anyone excited for new CPUs this year? Let us know by joining in on the discussion below!

Source: Digitimes

Redemption77

are any of these 1150?
- Dante
  
  they say so
Niklas Hein

Would love to see those! Planning to buy a complete new system in May / June.. So hopefully they are LGA 1150
- Muhah Philhauley
  
  I would also like to see a more powerful LGA 1150 CPU… 4776K… a six core with hyperthreading but still same memory controller and the lot.
  - http://www.facebook.com/sangeet.khatri Sangeet Khatri
    
    Seriously! That’s not gonna happen.
David Herrera

hopefully i want to upgrade from my i5 4670k to something better because i think my i5 is bottlenecking my 780ti
- LotLP
  
  It’s not. Modern CPUs do not bottleneck modern GPUs. Full stop.
  - Muhah Philhauley
    
    Dead wrong
    - Klappa
      
      Wrong on you!
- HOHOPP DY
  
  lol what? u gonna upgrade from a i5 4670k? lol u are wasting money man but its fine i guess if u have an 780 ti that means u actually have the money to do that…. But of course ur current proccesor isnt bottlenecking the GPU at all .. u could have 3/ 780 Ti and there wont be any Bottleneck with that processor
  - David Herrera
    
    i dont have the money i got 780ti for christmas and i guess ill keep my i5
  - http://www.facebook.com/sangeet.khatri Sangeet Khatri
    
    Well.. for having 3 780s, the 4670k is clearly lacking the PCI Express Lanes for that. Since the 4670k has only 16 PCI Express Lanes, hence no more than 2 GPUs are recommended.
    
    It would be like running two GPUs in x4 and one in x8 which is ridiculous.
    
    Hence with the LGA 1150 platform, two GPUs are fine, since both GPUs run at x8. And PCI Express 3.0 x8 is equivalent to PCI Express 2.0 x16. Hence it should be fine with two GPUs.
- Muhah Philhauley
  
  Yes… the i5 is bottlenecking your GPU by at least 18% for max frames and 70% for minimum frames (at its worst 9fps)…. add those together and divide by 2 for your AVG frame bottleneck… 44% drop in AVG frame rate… theoretically…. might be more if you see poor performance at 1080p with a 780ti… this compared to a 4770k… it does matter huge if you add another graphics card… 3970K runs 3 and 4 GPUs with way more bandwidth than a 4770K and it shows… About 38% faster with 3 GPUs…
  - Muhah Philhauley
    
    but the 3970K is slower with 2 GPUS… the 4770K is the ultimate ruler stick for running 2 GPUs insync…
- http://www.facebook.com/sangeet.khatri Sangeet Khatri
  
  4670k can push even the 7990 without issues. Heck even the 3570k could do it. Hence that is clearly not a problem.
- Chitransh Deep Swami
  
  just get a better cooler and oc your cpu
Seth Hoke

Yea, when intel comes out with decently priced 8 core i5s/i7s or at least a new cpu that is worth it, i’ll upgrade my 3570k, but until then I have no reason.
Yaz Akiera

so companies now are going with slow pace process, first Nvidia refreshed Kepler with 700 series, then AMD refreshed their 7000 series with the R9, and now Intel is going towards the same path.

Good to see this as your PC will live much longer than before.
…

I’m not impressed with my Haswell 4770k and why would they waste time on putting a GPU on the processor. Everyone uses a dedicated GPU. I’m not upgrading until there are 16-32 core CPU’s. I know Intel has the tech already. Their just milking us for every last dollar.
- :D
  
  But there is no need for 16-32 core cpu’s because the gpu can already do the stuff that type cpu can do.
  - Muhah Philhauley
    
    This is true… the GPU’s super parallel architecture makes more cores on the CPU redundant… but still, more cores means way more raw lines for epic physics engines that the GPU just cannot handle… Though the physics on a 16 – 32 core cpu would almost be too detailed to even see on the screen…
  - Chitransh Deep Swami
    
    its the compatibility , for example most video editing software have compatibility on cuda but most plugins dont , so they are still rendered on cpu , point is cpu and do just about anything but slowly while gpu’s were they are optimized they can do wonders
:D

Isn’t this whole refresh to take the to take a part off the chip itself and put it on the motherboard?
RoboBonobo

Excited why? All we have is model numbers. No specifics about how it’s an improvement over what’s already available.
- http://www.facebook.com/sangeet.khatri Sangeet Khatri
  
  Model numbers pretty much make it clear that they would be the same models but with high clock speeds (that’s why “Refresh”) and unable to overclock (since they lack K).
  
  That would still keep the sales of 4770k and the 4670k going on because of their ability to overclock and the ones who want to save money on the Motherboard might just buy one of these CPU with a cheaper B85 chipset board.
http://www.facebook.com/sangeet.khatri Sangeet Khatri

Well.. this seems legit to me. There is already a generation gap between the extreme CPUs and the Normal grade CPUs. Right now, the consumer grade CPU is using Haswell architecture whereas the Extreme ones are stuck in the Ivy-Bridge architecture.

Hence if they somehow let one generation pass by naming it Haswell refresh and using the same Haswell architecture but also launching the Haswell-E CPUs, then both the normal CPUs and Extreme CPUs would then be on the same architecture.

The next gen would (might?) have Broadwell on both Extreme and Normal CPUs.