Friday, February 3rd 2012
10-core Ivy Bridge-EP Sample Tested
The Ivy Bridge LGA1155 processors inbound for April are mom and pop PC chips in front of the monstrosities Intel has planned for the enterprise (and possibly high-end desktop/HEDT) markets, based on the architecture. An 10-core Ivy Bridge-EP engineering sample, made it to the right hands in Taiwan (wrong hands for Intel), that wasted no time in putting them through some tests.
The 10-core Ivy Bridge-EP/EX chip (LGA2011, 2P-capable) features 10 next-generation cores clocked at 2.80 GHz, with 256 KB L2 cache per core, 30 MB shared L3 cache, and HyperThreading technology that enables 20 logical CPUs. This chip crunched WPrime 1024M in 158.5 seconds, and scores 41.78X relative speed in Fritz chess when just 8 of its 20 threads are put to use. You can also find some pretty screen shots of CPU-Z with its long processor selection list and Windows 8 task manager.
Sources:
Coolaler, ComputerBase.de
The 10-core Ivy Bridge-EP/EX chip (LGA2011, 2P-capable) features 10 next-generation cores clocked at 2.80 GHz, with 256 KB L2 cache per core, 30 MB shared L3 cache, and HyperThreading technology that enables 20 logical CPUs. This chip crunched WPrime 1024M in 158.5 seconds, and scores 41.78X relative speed in Fritz chess when just 8 of its 20 threads are put to use. You can also find some pretty screen shots of CPU-Z with its long processor selection list and Windows 8 task manager.
38 Comments on 10-core Ivy Bridge-EP Sample Tested
Such amount of Cache is going to increase single threaded perf too.
Pretty please :)
If you aren't getting a performance increase with HT on in video encoding, something is wrong or you are using a P4/PD generation Hyperthreading chip.
That said, I think this is a fake. Although I would love to have an unlocked 10 core Intel chip.
Intel Core i7-990X Extreme Edition (6 cores / 12 threads, LGA 1366): $1,030 U.S.
Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition (6 cores / 12 threads, LGA 2011): $1,050 U.S.
If you have to ask "How much does it cost?", you can't afford it.... :cry:
2 - BF3 is ridiculously GPU dependent. So to answer your question, yes it will, accompanied by the correct graphics card.
3 - Probably, I don't know, but 6-core users don't have their cores heavily taxed when playing the games, so I think there is no need for 4 more cores at the moment (for games, exclusively).
There is a good chance that the next 8c or 10c Extreme edition will still cost 999$, of course I am not sure but looking at the trend seems legit.
Anyway don't quote me on that, I'm just making assumptions.
Then there is Windows TaskManager, which shows (if my math is right) 320 cores! That would make sense with 20 CPUs each having 8-cores and 16-threads. So it matches with CPUz, but not with the 10-core Ivy Bridge-EP claim.