More Sandy Bridge performance numbers (+Rumoured Pricing)

[-Sweeper_]

Compared to Bulldozer there already is a nice collection of benchmark numbers for Sandy Bridge. For example those posted by Coolaler, a few BOINC benchmark results and a video with a mobile Sandy Bridge running Cinema 4D. The video analysis done in the Planet3DNow forums resulted in a deciphered score of 19641, confirmed by the measured run time (44 s). This means, the tested mobile Sandy Bridge processor was as fast as a Core i7-975 Extreme. Another comparison could be done by using a recently published Geekbench result of a 1.6 GHz Sandy Bridge CPU. So I compared it to a Core i7 also running at 1.6 GHz and made following table with overall results and a diagram showing the differences in detail.



So the average performance increase with those CPUs at the same base clock, but with different Turbo Boost implementations, is about 20%.

...see the rest in dresdenboy's blog: http://citavia.blog.de/2010/08/05/mo...mbers-9128712/

edit: rumoured pricing on some dual/quads