New Intel Haswell CPUs Released

Intel has added a few new Pentium and Core i3 desktop microprocessors for socket 1150 platform to the official price list. New SKUs for mainstream desktop PCs are Pentium G3250, G3460, Core i3-4160 and i3-4370. Intel also released Pentium G3250T, G3450T, Core i3-4160T and i3-4360T low-power models.

All processors boast 100 MHz higher clock speeds compared to their predecessors. In addition, Intel lowered the price of its existing Core i3-4360 SKU from $149 to $138, and the price of the Pentium G3450 from $86 to $75.

New Pentium products are produced on 22nm manufacturing process, and they come with 2 CPU cores, running at 2.8 GHz - 3.5 GHz. The Pentiums have 3 MB of L3 cache, integrated HD graphics, and they support VT-x Virtualization and SSE4. The Pentium G3250 and G3460 have 53 Watt TDP, whereas the G3250T and G3450T are rated at 35 Watt.

Core i3 microprocessors add support for Hyper-threading feature. They have their GPUs upgraded to HD 4400 on the i3-41xx series, and to HD 4600 on the i3-43xx series. The CPUs also support more advanced AES and AVX/AVX2 instructions.

Specifications of the new CPUs are below:

Model	Cores / Threads	Frequency	L3 cache	Graphics	Max GPU Frequency	Memory	TDP	Price
Pentium G3250	2 / 2	3.2 GHz	3 MB	HD	1100 MHz	DDR3-1333	53W	$64
Pentium G3250T	2 / 2	2.8 GHz	3 MB	HD	1100 MHz	DDR3-1333	35W	$64
Pentium G3450T	2 / 2	2.9 GHz	3 MB	HD	1100 MHz	DDR3-1600	35W	$75
Pentium G3460	2 / 2	3.5 GHz	3 MB	HD	1100 MHz	DDR3-1600	53W	$86
Core i3-4160	2 / 4	3.6 GHz	3 MB	HD 4400	1150 MHz	DDR3-1600	54W	$117
Core i3-4160T	2 / 4	3.1 GHz	3 MB	HD 4400	1150 MHz	DDR3-1600	35W	$117
Core i3-4360T	2 / 4	3.2 GHz	4 MB	HD 4600	1150 MHz	DDR3-1600	35W	$138
Core i3-4370	2 / 4	3.8 GHz	4 MB	HD 4600	1150 MHz	DDR3-1600	54W	$149