"We looked at it in Q4 2013 and gave ourselves a target to get to 4Ghz and with a nice overclock bump in 20. "We developed this on a very tight timeline", adds Graff. Intel calls the material used a Next-Generation Polymer Thermal Interface Material (NGPTIM) and adds that the new ships have new capacitors to 'smooth' power delivery to the die during high performance. The new parts include an improved thermal interface material (TIM) designed to enable improved overclocking over previous processor generations through better dissipation of heat, a problem with recent generations of high-end Core processors. Again there is Intel HD 4600 graphics on board. The four core, four thread i5 is clocked at 3.5Ghz out-of-the-box with a maximum boost clock of 3.9Ghz. The maximum boost clock is a whopping 4.4GHz and there's a cited 88W TDP (Thermal Design Power) to match.
Make no mistake, the Core i7 version is an incredible CPU that's fully socket compatible with the current 1150 pin LGA package (Devil's Canyon is compatible with both Series 8 and Series 9 chipsets) and features the latest on-board Intel HD 4600 graphics. The market for high-end desktops is actually on the upĭevil's Canyon will debut in the guise of an overclockers' dream – a fully unlocked 4Ghz 4 core, 8 thread Core i7-4790K that slots in above a Core i5-4690K. Lisa Graff, head of desktop platforms at Intel said in a conference call to us that "in Q4 2013 as we were looking at our desktop strategy the growth in PC gaming was far more than across the PC market in general – there's some pretty strong growth." Similarly the same rise in gaming software revenue is predicted between a smaller timeframe - 2013 - 2015. JPR Is also predicting that the market for PC gaming hardware will rise from around $20 billion in 2013 to around $25 billion in 2016. Amongst all the relentless hype that the PC market is in decline, the key fact is that millions of desktop PCs are still being sold and that the enthusiast/gaming market is actually growing – JPR predicts 6.5 per cent growth during 2014, with continued growth through 2016. Think Intel is foolish for pursuing the desktop PC market? Think again. The Devil's Canyon parts are unashamedly enthusiast-level desktop processors. Rival AMD launched the 28nm Kaveri at the start of the year based on its Steamroller architecture, which followed Richland this time last year, but it has not yet announced details of the follow-up. The next completely new architecture is the tremendously-named Skylake, which will debut in late 2015 or very early 2016.
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