what new on 4th generation Intel processors Haswell

Its been almost a year since Intel announced the 4th generation of processors, Haswell processors are  finally available on the market.

Its important to notice that the new processors is not compatible with old motherboards "socket 1155", you have to buy a new motherboard 1150.

 

Haswell features:
On the brand new processors Haswell you no longer have 6 USB 3.0 ports instead of 4 on the Ivy Bridge, also 6 ports of SATA 6Gb/s.
One of the best features Intel has announced is the energy economy witch make laptop's battery  like MacBook Air and Vaio Pro  last longer.

Performance

Compared to Ivy Bridge:

• Approximately 8% better vector processing performance.
• 4%-6% IPC (instructions per clock) increase.
• 3% faster single-threaded performance.
• 5% faster multi-threaded performance.
• Non K models are completely locked and cant be overclocked at all unlike Ivy.
• Haswell is around 10°C-15°C hotter than Ivy Bridge when overclocked and does not seem to break the 4.2-4.4 GHz mark nearly as easily.Haswell draw around 30w more under load than ivy)
• A 4% increase in sequential CPU performance (eight execution ports per core versus six).
• Up to 25% performance increase over the integrated HD4000 GPU (Haswell HD4600 vs Ivy Bridge's built-in Intel HD4000).