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Core i7-4960X "Ivy Bridge-E" Roughly 10% Faster than i7-3970X: Early Tests

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I just found this

PC enthusiast "Toppc" with the Coolaler.com, with access to a Core i7 "Ivy Bridge-E" sample clocked to match specifications of the Core i7-4960X, wasted no time in comparing the chip to a Core i7-3970X "Sandy Bridge-E." The two chips share a common socket LGA2011 design, and run on motherboards with Intel X79 Express chipset. An MSI X79A-GD45 Plus, with V17.1 BIOS was used to run the two chips. Among the tests Toppc put the chip through, are overclocker favorites SuperPi mod 1.6, CPU Mark '99, WPrime 1.63, Cinebench 11.5, 3DMark Vantage (CPU score), and 3DMark 06 (CPU score).

The Ivy Bridge-E chip outperformed its predecessor by roughly 5-10 percent across the board. In Cinebench, the i7-4960X scored 10.94 points in comparison to the i7-3970X' 10.16; SuperPi 32M was crunched by the i7-4960X in 9m 22.6s compared to the 9m 55.4s of the i7-3970X; CPU Mark scores between the two are 561 vs. 533, respectively; 3DMark Vantage CPU score being 38,644 points vs. 35,804, respectively; and 3DMark 06 scores 8,586 points vs. 8,099 points, respectively. In WPrime, the i7-4960X crunched 32M in 4.601s, compared to its predecessor's 5.01s. Below are the test screenshots, please note that they're high-resolution images, so please open each in a new tab.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/183176/Core-i7-4960X-quot-Ivy-Bridge-E-quot-Roughly-10-Faster-than-i7-3970X-Early-Tests.html

Looking @the volts the new CPU is running for 3.6ghz (see the screenshots in the link above) is very worrying as they are very high and could indicate a poor overclocker.
 
Kaapstad said:
I just found this



http://www.techpowerup.com/183176/Core-i7-4960X-quot-Ivy-Bridge-E-quot-Roughly-10-Faster-than-i7-3970X-Early-Tests.html

Looking @the volts the new CPU is running for 3.6ghz (see the screenshots in the link above) is very worrying as they are very high and could indicate a poor overclocker.
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Nice find, well actually it's that great. A few things to consider here.

The screenshots are clearly from a quick run, looks like they didn't bother with even looking at the RAM.

Also, probably worth ignoring the voltage readings because:
A) CPUz probably isn't reading it correctly, given its a new chip that is still months away from release
B) Is there actually any BIOS support for these chips yet?

With that said, there is little to take away from that apart from: "The Ivy Bridge-E chip outperformed its predecessor by roughly 5-10 percent across the board." which is what we're expecting. Even then, the 2 chips are at different frequencies.
 
There is one clue in there about the new chip, the 3970x runs @3.5 and boosts to 4.0, the new 4960x looks like it has a default clock of 3.6 but what it boosts to will be interesting.
 
WingZero30 said:
If both were running at same clock speed with turbo mode disabled, I wonder how the results would turn out.
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This might help, its my 3960X using the same memory settings running @3.5 and 3.6 (the 3960x is identical to the 3970x, I have one of those too).

3.5ghz
396035.jpg



3.6ghz
396036.jpg



This is what they got for the 4960X @3.6
4960.jpg


So it is just under 6% faster
 
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@ Kaapstad

So in Cinebench, at same clock speed and same Ram settings

Sandy-E : 10.35pts

Ivy-E : 10.94pts


So Ivy-E is only 5.7% faster. (Impressive :p)
 
WingZero30 said:
@ Kaapstad

So in Cinebench, at same clock speed and same Ram settings

Sandy-E : 10.35pts

Ivy-E : 10.94pts


So Ivy-E is only 5.7% faster. (Impressive :p)
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Yes

If you upgrade from SB-E, just hope you don't get a bad overclocker.:D

Having said that there are other things about IB-E that should be a lot better like the IMC.:)
 
if Ivy-E desktop chips are limited to 6 cores then I can't justify getting one unless / until they start popping up on ebay like my 3930k did

but with even rumours of an 8-core sandy, I would be very surprised if they didn't
 
ivybridge was roughly 300mhz faster than sandybridge clock for clock?

idk if it carries over to ivybridge e? but you'd be looking at same performance@ 3.9ghz on current 3960x compared to 3.6ghz on ib-e

or am I talking poop?
 
wazza300 said:
ivybridge was roughly 300mhz faster than sandybridge clock for clock?

idk if it carries over to ivybridge e? but you'd be looking at same performance@ 3.9ghz on current 3960x compared to 3.6ghz on ib-e

or am I talking poop?
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Sounds about right, that plus big IMC improvements.
 
wazza300 said:
ivybridge was roughly 300mhz faster than sandybridge clock for clock?

idk if it carries over to ivybridge e? but you'd be looking at same performance@ 3.9ghz on current 3960x compared to 3.6ghz on ib-e

or am I talking poop?
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Going on the numbers I did earlier, it works out at about 200mhz @3.6ghz or 300mhz @5.0ghz. So yes it seems to have carried over to IB-E.
 
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