IvyBridgeis promising — Intelsays its new transistors will provide up to a 37% performanceincreaseandconsumeless thanhalf the power than their 2-d counterparts.
It's exchanging third-gen IntelIvyBridge silicon for a fourth-gen Haswell chip and upgrading from an NVIDIA GTX 660M to a GTX 765M GPU. Oh, and Razer's nixed the HDD options from the big Blade's menu -- the Pro packs a 128GB SSD standard, with optional upgrades to 256 or 512GB.
Well, HotHardware found that AMD's chip beats Intel's IvyBridge (with integrated HD 4000 graphics) by 30 to 50 percent in some games, albeit with a few stumbles over immature DX11 drivers.