The Sandy Bridge Review: Intel Core i7-2600K, i5-2500K and Core i3-2100 Tested
by Anand Lal Shimpi on January 3, 2011 12:01 AM ESTFile Compression/Decompression Performance
Par2 is an application used for reconstructing downloaded archives. It can generate parity data from a given archive and later use it to recover the archive
Chuchusoft took the source code of par2cmdline 0.4 and parallelized it using Intel’s Threading Building Blocks 2.1. The result is a version of par2cmdline that can spawn multiple threads to repair par2 archives. For this test we took a 708MB archive, corrupted nearly 60MB of it, and used the multithreaded par2cmdline to recover it. The scores reported are the repair and recover time in seconds.
Here both the K-series SKUs are faster than the 980X. The Core i3 2100 manages a 13% lead over the Core i3 540.
In all of our compression tests, Sandy Bridge does very well. The 2600K is faster than the 980X in the real world compression tests, while the 7-Zip algorithm benchmark is fully threaded and shows you what would be possible with 6-cores.
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britchie - Wednesday, December 26, 2012 - link
I was wondering how Intel Quick Sync might impact PC Based Security Systems/CCTV like those from Avermedia or Geovision. For the longest time Aver advocated a dedicated graphics card but now says HD2000/3000 CPU is OK.I read about limited software support in the article and guess that Aver does not yet take advantage Quick Sync. However, I had to RMA a NV6480 just for compatibility with a Sandy Bridge CPU (even using a dedicated GPU - ATI 5000 for multiple monitors) and wondered why.
Anyone know why Sandy Bridge might cause compatibility issues with DVR/NVR Cards and what advantages Quick Sync could bring to the IP Security Camera market if top companies like Geovision or Avermedia developed software for it?
realflow100 - Sunday, September 6, 2015 - link
Heh. I can run DiRT 4 at 30FPS+ ABSOLUTELY playable even on a bit higher settingsWith Intel HD Graphics (Bay Trail architecture)
Even GTA 5 plays somewhat reasonably when you disable shadows and run at 640x480 :D
IdBuRnS - Wednesday, October 11, 2017 - link
Who would have thought that 7 years later the 2600k is still relevant and competitive?