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** SandyBridge-E Benchmarking **

Thanks for taking the time to do those benchtest :D How about a direct comparison with the 2700K at similar clocks to the 3960X rjkoneill to gauge the direct power of I.B.? In the meanwhile here's my own 2600K bench results until then if you don't mind. I'm running on W7x64, my 5970 is comparable to your GTX580.

Wow, the Vantage CPU score totally outdone my [email protected], although my score was P33,073 the CPU score of 32,236 vs the 3960X 47,991 (48.87% improvement) is no fair match of 4-cores Vs 6-cores. Once the eight core server editions arrive S.B. will be the poor mans friend!

And here is the Cinebench compare which shows a huge 49% CPU gap from the [email protected] to the 3960X.

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bhavv said:
Sorry to burst your fantasy bubble, but click the links above. SB-E is to a 2600k what a Bulldozer was to a Phenom X6.
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More like what X6 was to X4, we've long since known that games struggle to utilise more than 4 cores, anyone interested purely in gaming doesn't need to look any further than a 2500K or a Phenom X4.

As for power consumption it can be more easily forgiven when you have 50% more performance, the reason Bulldozer got slated so much for it is because it golloped up a load of power and performed worse than SB in most cases.

drunkenmaster said:
Power wise aswell, Bulldozer uses less power, and is clocked higher.
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...and yet it only performs about half as good as the 3930X on average, what are we praising AMD for again?

drunkenmaster said:
People who called Bulldozer a power dog, are stupid, people who called bulldozer huge, are stupid.
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For the level of performance it offers Bulldozer is a huge power dog.
 
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You dont have 50% more performance over a 2600k though, you have like 5% more at the most, and more power consumption than a 990x :x
 
bhavv said:
Pure waste of money over 2500k / 2600k.

No performance gain for gaming:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core-i7-3960x-3930k_9.html#sect0

Massive power consumption, even more than LGA 1366 CPUs!

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core-i7-3960x-3930k_11.html#sect0



Sorry to burst your fantasy bubble, but click the links above. SB-E is to a 2600k what a Bulldozer was to a Phenom X6.
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No, sorry to burst your bubble. You don't really have a clue if you thought SB-E would pull ahead in gaming.

SB-E is about 40-50% faster than a 2600k under full utilization, and about 10-15% faster than a 990x on average.


bhavv said:
You dont have 50% more performance over a 2600k though, you have like 5% more at the most, and more power consumption than a 990x :x
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In most consumer applications sure, but tell me who is going to buy LGA 2011 unless they have very specific needs?
 
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Here's the key quote here from the xbitlabs article;

In fact, any contemporary processor priced at over $200 is capable of uncovering the potential of any graphics sub-system in contemporary games, no matter how complex this graphics sub-system is.
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We are currently being held back by graphics cards in raw 3d rendering, if you're using your chip for a mix of purposes then the i7-37xx is worth looking at.
 
bhavv said:
You dont have 50% more performance over a 2600k though, you have like 5% more at the most
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The same thing could be said about Phenom X6 against a Phenom X4 but they proved very popular because they were affordable, Intel could release a 12 core chip tomorrow and that would be barely any faster either simply because most things don't need that much CPU power yet.

IMO we're still at a stage where per core performance has the biggest noticeable impact which is why Bulldozer failed so miserably.
 
ATIorNvidia said:
No, sorry to burst your bubble. You don't really have a clue if you thought SB-E would pull ahead in gaming.

SB-E is about 40-50% faster than a 2600k under full utilization, and about 10-15% faster than a 990x on average.
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And the only time you will see that difference is when doing Aida, or some similar CPU benchmarks. Software is generally too far behind to make much advantage on hex cores, and the price on Intel hexes is far too high.

ATIorNvidia said:
In most consumer applications sure, but tell me who is going to buy LGA 2011 unless they have very specific needs?
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Simulatorman, and other people who simply want new shinies :D
 
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This is another interesting quote from the article;

It is very aggressive in LGA 2011 CPUs: these processors may vary their clock frequency within 600 MHz interval
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Does anyone know if this means you need to get a whole 600 MHz change in OC to utilise that OC?
 
This is what I got when I let the Asus utility on my P9X79 Pro do the overclocking;

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With a stock GTX 560 Ti, this yielded a 3DMark 2011 score of P4811; http://3dmark.com/3dm11/2198906

Not spent much time playing around with the overclocking potential yet as I have been occupied with Skyrim and BF3.

Edit; the 3DMark Vantage score was P21558

Edit #2; been messing around a bit more:

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Not especially keen on putting more voltage through it, considerng how long I've had it and how much it cost. I think I'll probably leave it at that for the time being.
 
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So much whine in this thread...

I know this forum is almost entirely made up of gamers, but come on, please... this is a high-end chip, not a "gaming chip". Gaming is not high-end, sorry to burst your bubble, not when it comes to CPU anyway. You guys can take the GPU crown for that. This chip is clearly aimed at people who will be performing rendering, virtualisation or other tasks that require the absolute most number-crunching performance from a single CPU but not wealthy enough to just go for a dual xeon setup. Gamers not included! Of course you guys won't be buying this for Skyrim and BF3 - ridiculous! That's what the mid-end enthusiast chips such as the 2500k are for and what IB will probably be aimed roughly towards, too. Who in their right mind spends £500 or £900 on a CPU to play games? Nobody. People who make a living with their workstations/servers/rendernodes are the target market for this. And then the super-rich e-peen types who will buy it regardless of benchmarks.

Of course this chip and the entire SB-E line is terrible value for money - for gamers. For everyone else who has a real-world need for a higher-end chip, this represents extremely good value for money, going by some of these benches so far.

So, please.... can we just lose the pointless gaming performance arguments? Keep that to the relevant 2700k etc. threads.

And thanks to all those who've posted their benchmarks so far - keep them coming!
 
Would anyone be willing to do a few encodes with Handbrake?

If so you can download handbrake here.
Use the Normal Preset.
Set the Contrainer to MKV.
Set the Priority Level to High in the options.

When finnished each encode record the average FPS, select the Activity Window then Encode Log from the dropdown, the average FPS will be near the end.

Source files, the smallest one would be enough but if you can do all 3 that would be better.

Tron_Trailer_HD.zip - 268 MB
Splice_Trlr_1_1080P.wmv - 336 MB - Right Click Save As this one.
big_buck_bunny_1080p_surround.avi - 886 MB

My 1100 results for comparison.
Code: 
1100 24/7 OC
4.0GHz | 3.0 | 1666-9-9-9-24-34

Tron   43.162312 fps
Splice 29.393965 fps
Big    43.118412 fps

EDIT: Handbrake will max all your cores so keep an eye on temps, I don't want to be responsible for frying your lovely new chip ;)

Cheers.
 
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mothermachine said:
Of course you guys won't be buying this for Skyrim and BF3 - ridiculous! That's what the mid-end enthusiast chips such as the 2500k are for and what IB will probably be aimed roughly towards, too. Who in their right mind spends £500 or £900 on a CPU to play games? Nobody. People who make a living with their workstations/servers/rendernodes are the target market for this.
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Exactly.
 
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