Saturday, November 12th 2011
Sandy Bridge-E Benchmarks Leaked: Disappointing Gaming Performance?
Just a handful of days ahead of Sandy Bridge-E's launch, a Chinese tech website, www.inpai.com.cn (Google translation) has done what Chinese tech websites do best and that's leak benchmarks and slides, Intel's NDA be damned. They pit the current i7-2600K quad core CPU against the upcoming i7-3960X hexa core CPU and compare them in several ways. The take home message appears to be that gaming performance on BF3 & Crysis 2 is identical, while the i7-3960X uses considerably more power, as one might expect from an extra two cores. The only advantage appears to come from the x264 & Cinebench tests. If these benchmarks prove accurate, then gamers might as well stick with the current generation Sandy Bridge CPUs, especially as they will drop in price, before being end of life'd. While this is all rather disappointing, it's best to take leaked benchmarks like this with a (big) grain of salt and wait for the usual gang of reputable websites to publish their reviews on launch day, November 14th. Softpedia reckons that these results are the real deal, however. There's more benchmarks and pictures after the jump.
Source:
wccftech.com
171 Comments on Sandy Bridge-E Benchmarks Leaked: Disappointing Gaming Performance?
Before anyone else points it out, we've heard the same from Tom's Hardware. Even taking it with a grain of salt, this seems sadly disappointing. Not disappointing enough to forego a ramdisk and awesome video processing, but definitely disappointing.
btw, Power consumption, more is better... yup very trustworthy lol
*edit*
I forgot about the dual threading, would that possibly mean ones that use up to 8 threads could perform the same on a 2600k and 3960X?
Wait, what? :laugh:
Some people still haven't realized 2500k is the way to go. 2500k and a solid GPU. Anything else isn't worth it unless you simply want the best, or can't afford it.
I'm enjoying my rig keeping my room warm while it does Folding@Home. Who needs heaters, anyway? :rolleyes:
I have doubts about these "slides" or whatever they are. If they are real.. "Dissapointing gaming performance"? Really? Since the SB platform can handle a GPU and the most demanding of games just fine, I don't see how having a SB-E or a processor two times the performance of that is going to make any difference. How about "SB-E benchmarks leaked" for a title? I suppose one should understand that before making the statement that it dissapoints in games. X264 and Cinebench look to be promising. I see nothing disappointing about this chip with the information given.
>more is better
Since when is gaming the only relevant metric we measure cpus by?
And x264 performance is way more important to me than gaming performance. Any modern cpu games just fine in most cases, but try re-encoding BD's on a 2500K compared to a hexacore with HT.
So, if you ask me, gaming is the least useful metric in determining a cpu's performance capability. The hardware is way ahead of the software in gaming right now.
I meant since I beat Chuck Norris... :p
If you game only, most of the time 2500K is your best bet
Also, you're wrong about the 2500k. Even in threaded situations, it's still capable of beating the Westmere architecture.
ixbtlabs.com/articles3/cpu/intel-ci7-limits-p2.html
If you ask me, I buy my CPU's mainly due to their gaming performance. That's what matters to people building PC's on these forums.
And the words "in these forums" was never once mentioned prior to this.