Testing Setup and SiSoft Sandra
For the review of the Intel Core i7-4770K we updated our entire suite of CPU benchmarks and thus we have a new set of results to present. The review today of Ivy Bridge-E will continue with that same set of tests.
Test System Setup | |
CPU |
Intel Core i7-4960X Intel Core i7-4770K Intel Core i7-4670 (simulated) Intel Core i7-3770K Intel Core i7-3570 (simulated) Intel Core i7-3970X Intel Core i7-3820 Intel Core i7-2600K AMD FX-8350 AMD A10-5800K |
Motherboard |
Intel DZ87KLT-75K (Haswell) MSI Z77A-GD80 (IVB, SNB) Intel DX79SR (Ivy Bridge-E, Sandy Bridge-E) ASUS 990FX (Vishera) MSI A85 (Trinity) |
Memory | 8GB DDR3-1600 |
Storage | Corsair Force GT 120 SSD |
Sound Card | On-board |
Graphics Card | AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB |
Graphics Drivers | Catalyst 13.4 (AMD) |
Power Supply | Corsair Professional AX1000 watt |
Operating System | Windows 8 Pro x64 |
SiSoft Sandra 2013 SP3a
The latest version of SiSoft Sandra offers up a lot of new features including GPU performance, OpenCL, etc.

Clearly in theoretical performance the IVB-E based Core i7-4960X has the edge but even in areas of memory bandwidth and cache performance it is right on par with Sandy Bridge-E. Also, with the IPC enhancements of Haswell, the new 6-core part actually falls behind the Core i7-4770K in the multimedia test!
“…a set of three of
“…a set of three of NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX TITANs. At $999 MSRP, the TITAN is the fastest single GPU graphics card on the market and running three of them in SLI gives us a total of 18GB of graphics memory (!!).”
No it doesn’t. VRAM is mirrored in SLI/CF. Therefore, three Titans still effectively have 6GB of VRAM.
IF your a average gamer
IF your a average gamer ….don’t bother.
Love one but just cannot get over the price.
Not to be fanboy ish but shouldn’t gamers be moving to 8 core
AMD. I know intel is faster, but two years down the road into xBONE and PS4 life cycle it might just be an advantage.
8 Core is great, but from
8 Core is great, but from what I’ve heard, most games aren’t well optimized for 8 cores.
Hence why most gamers used to recommend the 2 core CPU (Duo/Dual). Now, 4 cores is preferred. Eventually, most games will be optimized for 8 cores. I do recall seeing some new games that when it detect additional cores, it will utilize them.
However, note that more cores means lower clock-speed (Ghz) per core. So if you can’t use those additional cores, performance is decreased.
As for other usages such as high computing task, 8 cores are recommended (e.i. Adobe software).
Cheers! 🙂
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Incredible points. Sound ɑrguments. Keep up the good work.
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I’m sure none of the
I’m sure none of the reviewers have wanted to do this, for obvious reasons, and we probably won’t know till more are in the wild, but I’d love to know if these have soldered IHSs or if I need to continue my tradition of de-lidding these things. It will influence my decision to a reasonable degree. I haven’t seen mention of this on any of the reviews so far.
I’ve seen it somewhere..
I’ve seen it somewhere.. Ivy-E is soldered to the IHS.
Any plans to test PCI Express
Any plans to test PCI Express 2.0 vs 3.0 on the “E” platforms?
There just isn’t the single
There just isn’t the single threaded IPC gains that we need for anybody to justify an upgrade from Sandy Bridge onwards. There’s also no gains in overclocking headroom either, which makes the processor a pretty lackluster offering over the last generation from Intel.
What’s up with the slow
What’s up with the slow memory latency of the 4960X? Does having 4 memory channels affect the latency?