The Intel Ivy Bridge (Core i7 3770K) Review
by Anand Lal Shimpi & Ryan Smith on April 23, 2012 12:03 PM EST- Posted in
- CPUs
- Intel
- Ivy Bridge
Portal 2 continues to be the latest and greatest Source engine game to come out of Valve's offices. While Source continues to be a DX9 engine, and hence is designed to allow games to be playable on a wide range of hardware, Valve has continued to upgrade it over the years to improve its quality, and combined with their choice of style you’d have a hard time telling it’s over 7 years old at this point. From a rendering standpoint Portal 2 isn't particularly geometry heavy, but it does make plenty of use of shaders.
Since Portal 2 is another shader heavy game, this ends up being another struggle for Ivy Bridge. Compared to Sandy Bridge performance has once again rocketed up, this time by 39% at 1366, once more indicating just how much the 33% increase in EUs and the improved turbo has improved Intel's GPU performance. At the same time like our previous shader-heavy games it's just trailing GT 520, while Llano enjoys a 100% lead. To that end while we did end up using 4x MSAA at 1366, it's not clear that disabling it would significantly improve performance for Ivy Bridge here since MSAA doesn't increase the shader workload.
It's worth noting however that this is the one game where we encountered something that may be a rendering error with Ivy Bridge. Based on our image quality screenshots Ivy Bridge renders a distinctly "busier" image than Llano or NVIDIA's GPUs. It's not clear whether this is causing an increased workload on Ivy Bridge, but it's worth considering.
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pwnsweet - Saturday, April 28, 2012 - link
nevermind, I'm an idiot. I found it.PG - Sunday, April 29, 2012 - link
http://ark.intel.com/products/65511/Intel-Core-i5-...ktmobi - Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - link
Keep in mind that in Ivy Bridge, CPU speed is directly propotional to GPU's speed + performance.Source - http://mobilityupdate.com/notebooks/intel-hd-4000-...
BSMonitor - Wednesday, May 2, 2012 - link
In the mobile line up, there is only 1 SKU for Intel Processors. As they cut back on the CPU, the HD3000 or HD4000 remains for ALL mobile GPUs.SalientKing - Tuesday, May 8, 2012 - link
I just got a 3450, the tag on it says 95w, your chart here says 77w. I'm a little worried i just got a repackaged SB cpu....warmbit - Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - link
For those who want to see a comparison of 3770K to 2600k in more games (several sites), please check the article:http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=pl&sl...
DaddyMacCadillac - Thursday, June 14, 2012 - link
"Quick Sync's transcoding abilities are limited to applications like Media Espresso or ArcSoft's Media Converter—there's still no support in open source applications like Handbrake."Umm, try MediaCoder, steep learning curve but it works great! I also wish Handbrake would adopt this technology...
midn8t - Thursday, June 28, 2012 - link
I would like to say that they do not seem to say what they are running for GPU, also I own the fx chip in this review and would like to say that with the 7970 driect cuII asua vide card, I get way over those FPS in dawn of war maxed out gfxs I am getting 134 average fpsI also own dragonage and when I am running fraps I am getting maxed res max AA getting 139 average fps
cyris I get 139 fps and I get civ 5 225 fps
be honest the cpu has little to do with FPS its video card mostly anyways I am running eyeinfity setup on top of this and getting these fps in game according to fraps
midn8t - Thursday, June 28, 2012 - link
I have the AMD FX 8150 and I also own Crysis: Warhead, Civilization V, Dawn of War II, and Dragon Age Origins and I get way better FPS then they claimed to have gotten I mean my FPS are almsot double that, sometimes tripple and I am using Farpsfor exampel Civ 5 I get average of 190 FPS in game maxed out res with eyeinfity using Fraps
but I am also using a 7970 Directcu2 GPU
galestorm - Thursday, June 28, 2012 - link
double post, I almost did same thing lol, becuase I noticed my post was tooken down or did not show up right away..I have to agree with you I own your CPU also, one they dont claim to be using on board GPU meaning one built into CPU and if they where far as I know teh AMD fx dosnt have a built in GPU so it would suck and there actully called APU i belive ?
anyway I was also wondering what GPU they where using for the test becuase when I read this page it dosnt say it any where and page before the two buttons say review back and review http://www.anandtech.com/show/5771/the-intel-ivy-b... dosnt say anything about what GPU there using, but I do own amd FX and I also own a 7970 GPU and I will say that the FPS ratting on here a AMD FX comboed with 7970 you will get ammzing FPS in game it blows these fps they claim out of the water, the FPS 50 FPS I mean I use to get that with my 5k series amd card I hell I use to get 45 to 50 fps with my 6k series eyeinfity card this 7970 gets like use above says double or tripple preformance of whats claimed in this review with fraps.