According to associate , the processors Intel Ivy Bridge E / EP will have up to 12 cores. For comparison, 32-nanometer processors Intel Sandy Bridge E / EP have eight cores and 20 MB cache in the third level, or six cores and 15 MB cache in the third level.
At IDF manufacturer officially promised to release Ivy Bridge E / EP with 10 cores and 25 MB cache in the third level. However, according to unofficial data, they planned the release of 12-core versions with 30 MB cache.
Why 12-core model was not announced at the same time with others? The fact is that the more cores, the large area of crystal by the processor. And the larger the area it occupies, the greater the cores will be operational.
Assuming that without exceeding 150 W TDP the CPU clock frequency is equal to 3.2 GHz, you can count on the performance of double precision operations in excess of 300 GFLOPS.