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In advance of the April 23 debut of this chip line, we got our hands on Intel's flagship Ivy Bridge processor, the Core i7-3770K, intended for desktop PCs, and subjected it to a whole battery of tests. On-processor graphics acceleration debuted in Intel processors with the Sandy Bridge family, and in Ivy Bridge, it's much better. This time, Intel has further reduced the die, but introduced a different twist: significantly improved graphics performance.

With 2011's Sandy Bridge chips, a less drastic die shrink, plus several other architectural changes, together made the processors runaway hits.

In the Ivy Bridge processors, the key innovation is a familiar one with a new Intel chip family: The company has shrunk the chip's essential architecture, packing more capability into a new-generation processor without increasing die size or heat output. Namely, it lets us ask: Is Ivy a 'Bridge' too far? After all, the naming scheme served up, for the tech journalists of the world, the most fitting lead-in to these new chips imaginable. Indeed, the 'Sandy Bridge' development code-name, though never Intel's official name for those processors (the company always just called them its 'Second-Gen Core' chips once they hit the market), never quite expired. During the long run-up to their debut, these new-gen chips have gone under the code-name “Ivy Bridge,” much like their second-generation predecessors, known as Intel's 'Sandy Bridge' line. It seems like we've been hearing about them for nearly a year (well, maybe that's because it has been that long), but Intel’s third-generation Core processors have finally decloaked.

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