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
Video Transcoding Performance
x264 HD 3.03 Benchmark
Graysky's x264 HD test uses x264 to encode a 4Mbps 720p MPEG-2 source. The focus here is on quality rather than speed, thus the benchmark uses a 2-pass encode and reports the average frame rate in each pass.
In the second pass of our x264 test we see a nearly 14% increase over the 2600K. Once again, there's no replacement for more cores in these types of workloads but delivering better performance in a lower TDP than last year's quad-core is great for more thermally conscious desktops.
Software Development Performance
Compile Chromium Test
You guys asked for it and finally I have something I feel is a good software build test. Using Visual Studio 2008 I'm compiling Chromium. It's a pretty huge project that takes over forty minutes to compile from the command line on a Core i3 2100. But the results are repeatable and the compile process will stress all 12 threads at 100% for almost the entire time on a 980X so it works for me.
Ivy Bridge shows more traditional gains in our VS2008 benchmark - performance moves forward here by a few percent, but nothing significant. We are seeing a bit of a compressed dynamic range here for this particular compiler workload, it's quite possible that other bottlenecks are beginning to creep in as we get even faster microarchitectures.
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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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