Thursday, December 1st 2011
Ivy Bridge Official Benchmarks - Markedly Better Performance Than Sandy Bridge
Previous preliminary reports have suggested that the forthcoming Ivy Bridge CPUs will have single threaded performance on par with the existing Sandy Bridge CPUs and will mainly deliver improvements to power consumption and integrated graphics - nothing for PC enthusiasts to get excited about. However, in leaked documents sent to partners, Intel have now revealed official performance figures for IB and they look rather good. They've produced a raft of benchmarks, which reveal improvements such as 56% in ArcSoft Media Expresso, 25% in Excel 2010 and a 199% gain in the 3D Mark Vantage GPU benchmark. Unfortunately, they haven't released any benchmarks based on high performance 3D games, but it's probably safe to say that they will be similarly improved. Now, on to the benchmarks, which compare their new 3.4 GHz i7-3770 (4 cores + HT) with the current 3.4 GHz i7-2600, also with 4 cores + HT:
Finally, TechPowerUp will keep a lookout for those all-important gaming benchmarks.
Source:
xbit labs
- +7% higher overall SYSmark 2012 score
- +14% higher overall HDXPRT 2011 score
- +15% higher Cinebench 11.5 score
- +13% better ProShow Gold 4.5 result
- +25% faster performance in Excel 2010
- +56% faster performance in ArcSoft Media Expresso
- +192% higher overall 3DMark Vantage score
- +17% faster performance in 3DMark Vantage CPU benchmark
- +199% faster performance in 3DMark Vantage GPU benchmark
- Intel's new 22nm 3D Tri-Gate technology. More on this here
- Enhanced AVX acceleration
- IGP performance improved by 30% compared to its predecessor
- IGP supports DX11 and OpenCL 1.1
- PCI Express 3.0 x16 interface, including a PCI Express 2.0 x4 controller
Finally, TechPowerUp will keep a lookout for those all-important gaming benchmarks.
66 Comments on Ivy Bridge Official Benchmarks - Markedly Better Performance Than Sandy Bridge
I think by Haswell, INTEL will finally have IGPs that can game very well.
You can find the specs in the roadmap which is >>here<< (It's where the slides in the story originate).
Happy reading.
you really need to lower your expectations.
we are talking 1366x768 performance here, at low.
Still, even a small boost in performance, coupled with better power efficiency, and probably a better overclockability... sounds like those chips could be quite a win, if priced correctly :toast:
No question than Intel has no competition (and will not have next few years) so onlything Intel is competing is it self - I means he has to get money from SandyB users and sell them just a die shrink, usless IGP upgraide IvyB. and SandyB is so good chip for money - it will be hard work for Intel to beat him self this time....
Ultimately though, we need to wait for some independent benchmarks on release day to see just how much better IB is over SB.
I am in the same situation as you are but I decided to wait... but its too hard..... :D Let us know what you decided as you final PC setup.....:toast: