Leaked Benchmarks Indicate ~10% Boost For IvyBridge

[BlackFox]

The test platform consisted of an unnamed Z77 motherboard and 8GB of 1600MHz RAM, all running at stock. Given the early state of both the 3770K and Z77 boards a 5-10% performance increase over 2600K on Z68 seems to be a good low-end figure - not quite enough to warrant an immediate upgrade from SandyBridge but plenty if you're looking for a new PC around the release period of high-end IvyBridge parts.

http://www.vortez.net/news_story/lea...ivybridge.html

[UNTAMED]

Looking good so far
-+10% 920 to sb
-+10% sb to ib
-+10-15% better oc
- @ 30% could be the winner of my upgrade $$$$$$$$.

[xlink]

Looking good so far
-+10% 920 to sb
-+10% sb to ib
-+10-15% better oc
- @ 30% could be the winner of my upgrade $$$$$$$$.

the increases are multiplicative, not additive, remember.

1.1*1.1*1.25=1.51

[BlindFreddie]

the increases are multiplicative, not additive, remember.

Small increments are approximately additive (elementary high school calculus), eg:
10% + 10% = 20%; 1.1 * 1.1 = 1.21 == 21% increase

10% + 10% + 25% = 45%
which is not far from 51%.

However, the overclock margin quoted by UNTAMED was 10-15%, not 25%:
10% + 10% + 12.5% = 32.5%
1.1 * 1.1 * 1.125 = 1.361 == 36.1% increase.

I'll be pleasantly surprised if there's a such a large oc increase, as SB is already fantastic. I think Intel changed the mix of elements used for doping the silicon for SB. Maybe they've found further improvents there.
I'm hanging out for IB too.

[RPGWiZaRD]

Yea the OC ability is what's really the nice stuff about IB, if 5GHz @ 1.17v is true. :P *prays the avg stable cpu multi limit has increased a bit since SB* Cuz if it will do 5 GHz at 1.2v might very well do 5.5GHz at 1.3 ~ 1.35v but probably slightly higher clock too on a good sample but it's always difficult to predict the scaling, if scaling it excellent it might do even 6GHz! (ofc again if there isn't that same multi limitation as on SB) :P What I'm pretty sure of is that there probably will be at least some higher clocked SKUs in future, for now there's no need for Intel to release faster ones.

Nice to see IB getting nearly 7200 cpu score in 06 @ stock clock, that's like faster than my 860 @ 4.0 ~ 4.1GHz gets (I think 6750 ~ 6850) time for an upgrade.

[PatRaceTin]

wait for i5 3570K

[xlink]

I had intended 1.125 which was the average. I errored.

[informal]

Nice to see IB getting nearly 7200 cpu score in 06 @ stock clock, that's like faster than my 860 @ 4.0 ~ 4.1GHz gets (I think 6750 ~ 6850) time for an upgrade.

That IB model has a new aggressive TB of 3.9Ghz.Since it's sharing the TDP "pool" with the GPU , in CPU heavy workloads it can turbo up to the higher bins(maybe even to 3.9Ghz on all 4 cores). That's pretty close to your CPU's clock of 4-4.1Ghz.

[ExodusC]

Don't we usually see roughly a 10% increase in performance between Intel "tick" intervals?

Either way, it's good to see it performs better. I'm personally interested in these 35W TDP quad-cores that are supposed to come out for the mobile sector.

[SubZero.it]

I really would like to see an IB without the graphics core, but not a Xeon part.