Posted on Thursday, April 25 2013 @ 13:41 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
TPU
came across benchmark results of Intel's Core i7-4960X "Ivy Bridge-E" processor as Asian tech board
Coolaler. The chip was compared directy to the Core i7-3970X "Sandy Bridge-E" on an identical system. The conclusion is that Ivy Bridge-E seems to be about 5-10 percent faster than its predecessor.
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.
