Coolaler's BIOS and CPU-Z screenshots reveal that the CPU has two cores, four threads, 512KB of L2 cache, and 4MB of L3 cache. The images also confirm the 1.8GHz speed, which is presumably a ways below what we'll see on the finished product. We are, after all, talking about one of the first CPUs based on Intel's brand-new 22-nm fab process—or so it appears.
The benchmarks are somewhat anticlimactic, although they do give us a couple of noteworthy scores: 22.198 seconds for a SuperPI 1M run, and 1.81 points in a Cinebnch 11.5 test. Coolaler got higher numbers from a Core i5-2400 underclocked to 1.8GHz, but that chip has two extra cores and a couple megs of extra cache.
Intel 22nm Ivy Bridge sample gets benchmarked
Posted on Tuesday, July 05 2011 @ 21:58 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck