Hi JM,
Are you able to confirm if any of the Haswell parts you have been testing are consumer parts from this list?
Core i7-4900MQ (iGPU HD4600)
Core i7-4800MQ (iGPU HD4600)
Core i7-4950HQ (iGPU Iris Pro 5200)
Core i7-4850HQ (iGPU Iris Pro 5200)
Core i7-4750HQ (iGPU Iris Pro 5200)
These parts taken from Anand's site:
AnandTech | Hit the Road, Jack: Intel’s Mobile Quad-Core Haswell SKUs
If so, have you been able to confirm if the Crystalwell cache, present in the HQ (Iris Pro 5200) parts, provides a significant increase in performance over the standard MQ parts (non-Crystalwell) when running ESXi or Workstation 9?
Thank you.