![]() The chips are the same but the surrounding packaging is redesigned with overclocking in mind, addressing an area of the market Intel struggled to satisfy with last year's offerings.ĭevil's Canyon takes the form of new, unlocked K-series Core i5 and i7 processors, accompanied by the release of an unlocked £50/$75 dual-core Pentium Anniversary Edition we'll be looking at soon. However, Devil's Canyon - the new enthusiast products - are different. These CPUs are available right now and while remaining as powerful and as great value as ever, the refresh simply amounts to Intel bumping up clock speeds across the board by 100MHz and selling the new chips at the same price as the older ones they replace. Shrinking transistors isn't as easy as it used to be - not even for the mighty Intel - so to fill the void left by Broadwell's no-show, we have the imaginatively titled Haswell Refresh. This year we were expecting to see the 14nm tick, codenamed Broadwell. ![]() Last year's Haswell, manifesting in the top-end Core i7 4770K, was a tock. A new architecture is released with a tock, before it's shrunk down the following year onto an even smaller fabrication process - the tick - making it even more power-efficient, before the cycle begins again. The strategy's known as the "tick-tock" model. Year after year, Intel has produced ever more capable, more efficient CPU architectures with relentless pace.
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