** SandyBridge-E Benchmarking **

[rjk]

Hi Guys

With the launch of SB-E today, here is the bits and bobs I have done on it.
we haven't had much time thrashing it and with the cost of the CPUs I was being gentle. Didn't do much messing with the BCLK, just wanted to see the max frequency.

This was just using the Stock Intel cooler, so temps aren't ideal.

Anyway, enjoy...

Stock temps on LinX

4.8GHz Temps on LinX

Stock Cinebench

4.8GHz Cinebench

Stock Vantage [with a single GTX 580]

4.8GHz Vantage [with a single GTX 580]

5GHz Cinebench

 

[rjk]

they don't, it was the intel branded cooler that is available soon

 

[rjk]

Nice results. What memory are you using?

4 kits of kingston 8GB genesis grey 1600mhz c9

nothing special. just wanted a known stable kit to work with

Wow, these results are impressive. How much of a temperature drop could we see with a better cooling system, like the Noctua D14 for example?

a lot. these chips benefit a lot from good cooling. custom water or very high end air are required for clocks over 4.6GHz due to the heat dump

So do you sell this as opened b-grade or something?

Quite expensive to open and benchmark it no?

Still, cheers for the pics!

you will notice in the cpuz screens that the cpu is an engineering sample.
thats why i had the results a long time ago.
the cpus have been in our warehouse for ages, just waiting for launch.

the ES chip I used clocks identically to the ones we have tried today that are retail versions.

 

[rjk]

It certainly is a good clock, and at those speeds the CPU is rapid. It feels similar to using an SR-2 cpu with dual Xeons in applications.

Whilst I agree that the raw power that the X79 platform provides is more than most people require and certainly massive overkill for most gamers, there is a place in the market for SB-E

server computing is where these chips really shine, massive availability of processor power and bucket loads of cache means that even the most demanding multitasking is a doddle.

whilst on the face of it, the power consumption looks enormous compared to an 1155 solution and the gaming performance is not a great deal more than a 25/6/700K but there is a reason these cpus exist.

sandybridge overclocking capability coupled with better than gulftown multitasking capability is something that high demand users will want.

that and the memory bandwidth is berserk!

 

[rjk]

i want to see a bigadv unit being processed by one.

tbh, it is a brilliant price/performance for enterprise use.

look how it crunches compared to a westmere dual cpu solution and the power consumption and price makes it really stand out as a very real prospect.

for the home user, possibly not required as the 155 covers it.

but 1155 is and always was a mainstream platform, and 2011 is the enthusiast platform

when all said and done, its no surprise that it costs what it costs.

all extreme chips have cost around a grand, if anything intel did us all a massive favour by giving us the 2500/2600/2700k chips for such a small amount of money in comparison.

 

[rjk]

That would have been useful if we were testing for stability, but we were testing load temperatures.

 

[rjk]

I was more interested in the cinebench and vantage results. Apologies that I didn't check the linx version.

 

[rjk]

wont make much difference. you have a 1155 i7 cpu already so FSX wouldnt see hardly any improvement.