The Ivy Bridge Preview: Core i7 3770K Tested
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 6, 2012 8:16 PM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- Core i7
- Ivy Bridge
The State of Ivy Bridge Silicon
Intel finally delivered production quality Ivy Bridge silicon to its partners last month. The launch is still scheduled for this Spring, however there has been a delay of approximately three weeks. Remember what I said earlier about the risks associated with doing too much on the architecture side while shifting to a new process node.
We were able to spend some time with the new high-end Ivy Bridge desktop SKU: Intel's Core i7 3770K. What follows is a preview of its performance. Keep in mind that this is a preview using early drivers and an early Z77 motherboard. The numbers here could change. This preview was not supported or sanctioned by Intel in any way.
The Test
To keep the preview length manageable we're presenting a subset of our results here. For all benchmark results and even more comparisons be sure to use our performance comparison tool: Bench.
| Motherboard: |
ASUS P8Z68-V Pro (Intel Z68) ASUS Crosshair V Formula (AMD 990FX) Intel DX79SI (Intel X79) Intel Z77 Chipset Based Motherboard |
| Hard Disk: |
Intel X25-M SSD (80GB) Crucial RealSSD C300 OCZ Agility 3 (240GB) |
| Memory: | 4 x 4GB G.Skill Ripjaws X DDR3-1600 9-9-9-20 |
| Video Card: |
ATI Radeon HD 5870 (Windows 7) AMD Processor Graphics Intel Processor Graphics |
| Video Drivers: | AMD Catalyst 12.2 Preview |
| Desktop Resolution: | 1920 x 1200 |
| OS: | Windows 7 x64 |
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jjj - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
CPU perf pretty much as expected,GPU perf somewhat dissapointing ,i thought they'll at least aim to match Llano but i guess it is ok for 1MP laptops screens if mobile parts perform close enough (and a couple of big ifs when it comes to image quality and drivers).Any opinions yet about QuickSync encoding quality?
wifiwolf - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
And we should remark that's comparing 2600 with 3700 which have different cpu too.Other benchmarks had significantly better results on 3700 than 2600.
So Anand, how you know that difference is not attributable to the CPU and not to some gpu improvement?
IntelUser2000 - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
You are not being serious, are you? The CPU gets 10% in CPU sensitive benchmarks and GPU gained 40-60%. Even taking out 10%, its still 30-50%, which btw isn't true as games aren't very sensitive to CPU changes as applications do.wifiwolf - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - link
Look at crisys or metro benchmarks and tell me where you find that improvement, at least more than what you find in cpu difference.mosu - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - link
I've tried it on some HD clips at a local TV station and on a big screen it really sucked.It's way behind AMD.We used aHP EliteBook 8460P laptop.Articuno - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
At least AMD's products are HD capable.dr/owned - Thursday, March 8, 2012 - link
My 5 year old laptop with a shared ram gpu is "HD capable". GTFO noob.Articuno - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
Billions in R&D, double the MSRP, half the power and yet it still can't play Crysis better than Llano, which will be replaced by Trinity in a few weeks. What a crying shame.travbrad - Tuesday, March 20, 2012 - link
Not playing Crysis sounds like a good thing to me.tipoo - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
Source or gtfo. Apple got the stock HD 3000, why would this be different?