Intel to Launch Trio of Graphics-Less Sandy Bridge

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 Intel processors will soon update the portfolio with several new three-chip architecture based on Sandy Bridge, which in turn is a bit strange events, will come with on-board GPU they are disabled.

The reason behind Intel's decision is not known at this point in time, but we suspect that the chip maker trying to get rid of some dead CPUs that do not have to work on-board graphics.

As VR-Zone has been revealed, the three-2380P Core i5 processors, Core i5-2450P and acquaintances are a bit older than us, Core i5-2550K.

With a base clock of 3.1GHz and a maximum Turbo Speed of 3.4GHz, the Core i5-2380P greatly resembles the Core i5-2400, sans the integrated GPU of course.

The Core i5-2450P on the other hand is a bit odd as both of its 3.2GHz base and 3.5GHz Turbo frequencies are 100MHz lower than those of the Core i5-2500.

Last but certainly not least is the Core i5-2550K, which as we speculated at the beginning of December it has 100MHz higher base and Turbo frequencies than the current i5-2500K, which means that this will run at 3.4/3.8GHz.

All three models have 6MB cache, but none of them have VT-d or TXT support, a feature all previous non-K SKUs in the Core i5 family supported. Hyper-Threading also won’t make it in the features list, while TDP should be set at 95W.

The launch date of the three new models is not yet known, but VR-Zone expects them to arrive in the first part of 2012.

As far as prices are concerned, both P-series CPU models should have a slightly lower MSRP than their counterparts with on-board graphics, but we don’t know where Intel wants to position the Core i5-2550K in its lineup.