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Core i7-3960X "Sandy Bridge-E" Extreme Chip to Boost Performance by Up to 65%

Holy Cow, 65 percent faster then a 2600k WOWzers!!! It will blow BD away.

Good link nyker96. thank you...
 
+13% in Cinebench 1.5
+12% in POV-Ray 3.7
+36% in 3DMark 11 Physics Test
+15% in ProShow Gold 4.5
+34% in SPECint_rate base 2006
+65% in SPECfp_rate base 2006
+111% in Sandra 2011B/Multi-Media FP sub-test
+92% in Sandra 2011B/Memory Bandwidth FP sub-test
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Looks like it is going to be a real beast for the synthetic benchmarks. That'll make marketing easier.

Now if only it would perform 65% faster in real apps. That would be something.
 
Below this thread we have a topic on real SB-E running real applications versus real 980x at the same clock.
This table sums it up:
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What is left of those 65%? You can disregard AIDA since it doesn't actually do anything useful ,just tests the L1/L2/L3 caches. Real applictaion performance improvement at the same clock is between 2% and 9.5% versus Westmere at same clock speed and in applications that don't yet support AVX. That is the reality.
 
I can definitely see why Intel has it's fingers in a lot of benchmark pies. 65% sure sounds a lot snazzier than 10-25%.
 
I'll have to say i'm pretty disappointed in xbitlabs to post something this deceptive on their website. Its pretty obvious that SB-e would do better in stuff like cinebench due to the additional cores/cache, and spec_int + fp are basically worthless. What they posted on their website is not indicative at all of how well sb-e will perform in real world applications.

I'd say we would be lucky if SB-e performs 10-15% better in real world apps, and it won't really be any better than current sandy bridge for gaming. I guess since x79 will support x16/x16 crossfire that would be nice, but eh. Whatever.
 
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trollolo said:
so is this another one of those 1000$ CPU's?
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yup but its a bargan compaired to the xeon versions.

I could see a huge market for these instead of paying 3-5k for a xeon

I just hope evga makes its dual socket 2011 board still as it was a concept board.

2 of these with 32gb of 2133 quad channel ram would be a killer setup for any heavy movie creation edititing setup.

here is my next board if it ever comes out.

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looks like coolaler already has a dual board lol

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No, those will be real benchmarks, but with AVX. You could well see that in real applications that use AVX if they are FP heavy. Unfair? Depends how you look at it. Fake? Definitely not just on the basis of that.
 
BD will have AVX. And once that happens, and AVX CPUs gain more market share in general, we will see more applications usnig it.
 
grkM3 said:
yup but its a bargan compaired to the xeon versions.

I could see a huge market for these instead of paying 3-5k for a xeon

I just hope evga makes its dual socket 2011 board still as it was a concept board.

2 of these with 32gb of 2133 quad channel ram would be a killer setup for any heavy movie creation edititing setup.

here is my next board if it ever comes out.

http://i1-news.softpedia-static.com...ks-On-Dual-Socket-Intel-X79-Motherboard-2.jpg
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quad channel on that board? it has 6 memory slots for each cpu.
 
grkM3 said:
If you say so lol
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you cannot be serious. that board you showed is for triple channel. it has THREE red and THREE black slots for EACH cpu. there is no way you can run 32gb of quad channel ram on there like you were saying.

that is a 1366 board not a Sandy Bridge 2011 board.
 
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toyota said:
you cannot be serious. that board you showed is for triple channel. it has THREE red and THREE black slots for EACH cpu. there is no way you can run 32gb of quad channel ram on there like you were saying.

that is a 1366 board not a Sandy Bridge board.
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No crap Sherlock,evga won't give out pics of there sr3 board but from the benches on coolaler they have a dual 2011 working sample.

You can bet your camery that a dual socket 2011 board will support quad channel and 32 gb of ram
 
grkM3 said:
No crap Sherlock,evga won't give out pics of there sr3 board but from the benches on coolaler they have a dual 2011 working sample.

You can bet your camery that a dual socket 2011 board will support quad channel and 32 gb of ram
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you said "here is my next board if it ever comes out" so THAT board you showed was the one I was commenting on. and then after I said there were only 6 slots you said "Yeah quad channel why is 12 slots not enough?". :whiste:

and its Camry not camery. 😉
 
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