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
Content Creation Performance
Adobe Photoshop CS4
To measure performance under Photoshop CS4 we turn to the Retouch Artists’ Speed Test. The test does basic photo editing; there are a couple of color space conversions, many layer creations, color curve adjustment, image and canvas size adjustment, unsharp mask, and finally a gaussian blur performed on the entire image.
The whole process is timed and thanks to the use of Intel's X25-M SSD as our test bed hard drive, performance is far more predictable than back when we used to test on mechanical disks.
Time is reported in seconds and the lower numbers mean better performance. The test is multithreaded and can hit all four cores in a quad-core machine.
Our Photoshop test is well threaded but it doesn't peg all cores constantly. Instead you get burstier behavior. With the core count advantage out of the way, SNB-E steps aside and allows the 3770K to step up as the fastest CPU we've tested here. The performance advantage over the 2600K is around 9%.
3dsmax 9
Today's desktop processors are more than fast enough to do professional level 3D rendering at home. To look at performance under 3dsmax we ran the SPECapc 3dsmax 8 benchmark (only the CPU rendering tests) under 3dsmax 9 SP1. The results reported are the rendering composite scores.
In another FP heavy workload we see a pretty reasonable gain for Ivy Bridge: 8.5% over a 2600K. This isn't enough to make you want to abandon your Sandy Bridge, but it's a good step forward for a tick.
Cinebench 11.5
Created by the Cinema 4D folks we have Cinebench, a popular 3D rendering benchmark that gives us both single and multi-threaded 3D rendering results.
The single threaded Cinebench test shows a 9% performance advantage for the 3770K over the 2600K. The gap increases slightly to 11% as we look at the multithreaded results:
If you're running a workload that can really stress multiple cores, the 6-core Sandy Bridge E parts will remain unstoppable but in the quad-core world, Ivy Bridge leads the pack.
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Articuno - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
Except the quality is the same as competing AMD products if not worse because of driver issues, but you lose 20-30% performance in every scenario versus the last gen Llano APU. The facts are in this very review.Articuno - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
Sure sounds like Bulldozer at this point, doesn't it?""It's just a driver issue, AMD/Intel will fix it!"
"It's just the review units sent out, AMD/Intel will have a BIOS update at the official release that improves performance!"
"If you overclock it to hell and back, it can almost sort of maybe compete with Intel/AMD!"
"Oh look, there's a new update out that improves performance! Sure it's only 1% performance, applicable in only certain scenarios, but it's better than nothing!"
Articuno - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
Aside from that NOT being what I said at all... you do realize you justified the reasoning in your post, right? They're bribing Intel. That doesn't mean they did nothing wrong, it's a BRIBE. Besides, Intel is just as guilty as Microsoft of OEM threatening and hand-holding in the 90s.Makaveli - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
Who the hell is this Sans2212 troll.Dude please do all of us a favour on this site and STFU.
90% of the people reading this site know more than you.
Take your bad english GTFO.
+1 for ban!
Articuno - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
If you Google his handle you'll find out he's been doing this for a while now (and that he's probably Japanese, which would explain the poor English).+2 for ban.
m.amitava - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
I don't think he's serious....reading come of his comments...nobody with a human brain can reason like that...If he IS serious, opens up the possbility of creating an online zoo exhibit out of him...prod him with an AMD logo and he'll roar, shout, roll and snap :)
tipoo - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - link
Poes law in full swing. The morons are indistinguishable from the people trying to look like them.silverblue - Wednesday, March 7, 2012 - link
Awww I missed it... I usually like reading his rants, especially his obsession with "amd craps". He filled the void SiliconDoc vacated.Jamahl - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
Wake me up when intel does something interesting again.MJG79 - Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - link
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