Posted on Wednesday, November 30 2011 @ 21:42 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
X-bit Labs
reports Intel has released official Ivy Bridge performance numbers to its partners. The slides reveal Ivy Bridge will be 7 to 25 percent faster than Sandy Bridge in office applications, content creation, and 3D rendering. Larger boosts are promised in gaming benchmarks as the new integrated graphics core is much faster than its predecessor.
Intel recently started to spread its official Ivy Bridge performance expectations among its partners, manufacturers of personal computers and resellers. The documents by Intel, which have leaked to the Internet, demonstrate that Intel rather high expectations for its next-generation Core i 3000-series microprocessors when it comes to general purpose performance and especially graphics performance. According to the documents, Intel Core i7-3770 (4 cores with HyperThreading, 3.40GHz, 8MB cache) will deliver the following advantages compared its predecessor Core i7-2600 (4 cores with HyperThreading, 3.40GHz, 8MB cache):
+7% higher overall SYSmark 2012 score;
+14% higher overall HDXPRT 2011 score;
+15% higher Cinebench 11.5 score;
+13% better ProShow Gold 4.5 result;
+25% faster performance in Excel 2010;
+56% faster performance in ArcSoft Media Expresso;
+192% higher overall 3DMark Vantage score;
+17% faster performance in 3DMark Vantage CPU benchmark;
+199% faster performance in 3DMark Vantage GPU benchmark;
