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Waiting for Skylake MBP thread
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I don't know of a stream but there's a liveblog.
http://live.arstechnica.com/intel-developer-forum-2015-keynote/
Nah there won't be managed to find this
http://www.intc.com/events.cfm
"Please note: The Keynote and Mega Sessions will not be broadcasted live, instead a replay of each will be available a few hours after each session concludes. Thank you."
First time I've ever been remotely interested in a keynote that wasn't Apple...
Short-term only "smart sound" (demo'ed cortana listening when the system was "powered" down)
Robo spider dance?
No, they only talked about Internet of Things and their new storage architecture.
Skylake news could still surface soon, IDF continues until thursday.
*sigh of relief*
I'm thinking of WWDC, in which all the important-to-consumers stuff is revealed in the keynote on Day 1. Does Intel tend to scatter their reveals more?
Yeah, that came up in this thread a few days ago. I was hoping to get an official announcement contradicting that.Notebook Skylake is already "revealed", we just want to know whether it's fallen behind schedule or not
Btw, I just found this:
Should mean no 13" Skylake until 2016 right?
http://wccftech.com/intel-skylake-h...lagship-core-i76820eq-xeon-e31500m-gt4e-igpu/
Does this link give any info that might tell us anything about 13 and 15 inch mbp?
Does this link give any info that might tell us anything about 13 and 15 inch mbp?
I hope it is fake, being burned by GPU problems in my last two Apple laptops, I decided to make the next iGPU only... GT2 in Corei7, unless Apple puts the Xeon with GT4e in their laptop, I'm not seeing me buying one yet until HQ versions are out.
The 13" isn't getting a quad core, and is most likely waiting for the 28W dual cores to be updated. The 15" could definitely see those Xeons.
Any reasons why Apple couldn't give the 13" a quad core? Give the highest Xeon CPU to the highest configurable 15" and give the E3-1505M/L or i7-682xEQ to the highest configurable 13". Otherwise the 13" mbp would have to use one of the cpus from the Skylake-U list. The link I gave shows that the TDP is 15w for Skylake U cpus that are releasing this year. Would this be enough to put in the mbp?
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Of course tonight's the night I find a spider running around my room...
Robo spider dance?
It is very strange that intel chose to put the GT4e graphics in only their top of the line Xeon chip and decided to put a GT2 with only 24EUs in all other Skylake-H chips. The current 13" MBP have the HD6100 which is a GT3 with 48EUs so the new ones will be downgrades compared to the current chip. Otherwise the three quad-core chips with 25W TDP would be possible for the next 13" MBP. But we do get 2 new 28W dual-core Skylake-U with GT3e which is what the next 13" is expected to have.
As for the 15" MPB I don't think Apple will release a new one with only one CPU with GT4e graphics available as they have always had several CPU configurations for the MacBooks. That is unless we are getting more configurations that they are currently not revealing or Apple is getting custom chips just for the 15" MBP.
Maybe the leaked information is not accurate, we can see the CPU's description as 5TH Generation in the same image. I don't think Intel is going to downgrade the graphic performance in the i7 i5 and two Xeon chips intended for high performance laptops when one of the biggest selling points for this category in Skylake is the increased performance in integrated graphics.
It's hard to tell, maybe incomplete or not accurate. And Intel has not showed already at IDF any Skylake-H roadmap.
http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/201...-win-for-amd-and-disappointment-for-nvidia/1/
Now we know why Apple went with AMD route for their GPUs. R9 290X is as fast in DirectX 12, that is based on Mantle, on the low-level end, as GTX 980 Ti.
Metal, Vulkan, and every other modern API is based on Mantle. If your games are optimized for it, you get free performance from your GPUs.
That is really astonishing.
EOT.
Now we know why Apple went with AMD route for their GPUs. R9 290X is as fast in DirectX 12, that is based on Mantle, on the low-level end, as GTX 980 Ti.
Metal, Vulkan, and every other modern API is based on Mantle. If your games are optimized for it, you get free performance from your GPUs.
That is really astonishing.
EOT.
Does Intel have any other major presentations lined up for IDF in which we could hope to see a roadmap?
Metal is not based on Mantle afaik.
And that benchmark has been criticized for focusing on some specific Dx12 features instead of overall performance.
Maybe later today or tomorrow... but nobody knows for sure
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us...cisco/2015/idf-2015-san-francisco-agenda.html
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