The Core I3 and it's Dominance over the C2D's

[Hey Zeus]

People were expecting too much from the "Clarkdale's" and intel's pricing of the I5 just made the flaws even more obvious. After reading the benchmarks i think everyone has focused alittle too much on the I5's when the real gem's are the I3's. Both coming in under 150 dollars and easily able to overclock past 4.3Ghz.

Benchmarks :

SYSMark 2007 Performance Overall :

E8600 : 210
540 : 204
E8500 : 201
530 : 197


E-Learning :

E8600 : 217
E8500 : 209
540 : 195
530 : 185

Video Creation :

540 : 220
530 : 213
E8600 : 211
E8500 : 209

Productivity :

E8600 : 216
E8500 : 203
540 : 201
530 : 195

3D :

540 : 202
530 : 194
E8600 : 194
E8500 : 185

After Round One :

E8600 - 3
540 - 2

Adobe Photoshop CS4 Performance :

540 : 24.2
530 : 25.2
E8600 : 26.2
E8500 : 27.3

DivX 8.5.3 with Xmpeg 5.0.3 :

540 : 52.1
530 : 53.9
E8600 : 54.5
E8500 : 56.9

x264 HD Video Encoding Performance :

540 : 52.6
530 : 51
E8600 : 43.4
E8500 : 41.7

2nd Pass :

540 : 14.3
530 : 13.7
E8600 : 11.3
E8500 : 10.8

Windows Media Encoder 9 x64 Advanced Profile :

540 : 36
530 : 37
E8600 : 42
E8500 : 44

After Round Two

540 : 8
E8600 : 3

3dsmax 9 - SPECapc 3dsmax CPU Rendering Test :

540 : 9.6
530 : 9.1
E8600 : 8.3
E8500 : 7.9

Cinebench R10 :

540 : 4176
E8600 : 4128
530 : 4018
E8500 : 3895

Cinebench R10 Multi :

540 : 9576
530 : 9428
E8600 : 7975
E8500 : 7596

POV-Ray 3.73 beta 23 Ray Tracing Performance :

540 : 1953
530 : 1863
E8600 : 1419
E8500 : 1351

Blender 2.48a :

540 : 64.6
530 : 66.8
E8600 : 78.2
E8500 : 81.1

After Round 3 :

540 : 13
E8600 : 3

PAR2 Multithreaded Archive Recovery Performance :

540 : 40.6
530 : 41.8
E8600 : 53.3
E8500 : N/A

WinRAR - Archive Creation :

540 : 123
530 : 133.8
E8600 : 134
E8500 : 135

Microsoft Excel 2007 :

E8600 : 28.7
540 : 30.3
E8500 : 31.3
530 : 31.8

Sony Vegas Pro 8: Blu-ray Disc Creation :

540 : 276.5
530 : 288
E8600 : 325.1
E8500 : 359.6

Sorenson Squeeze: FLV Creation :

540 : 178
530 : 195.8
E8600 : 230.3
E8500 : 243.0

After Round 4 :

540 : 17
E8600 : 4

Fallout 3 Game Performance :

E8600 : 89.1
E8500 : 88.0
540 : 79.2
530 : 78.4

Left 4 Dead :

E8600 : 123.9
E8500 : 120.8
540 : 116.6
530 : 110.9

Far Cry 2 Multithreaded Game Performance :

E8600 : 47.9
540 : 47.8
E8500 : 47.4
530 : 46.8

Crysis Warhead :

E8600 : 84.0
E8500 : 82.0
530 : 77.3
540 : 76.8

After 5th And Final Round :

540 : 17
E8600 : 8

Final Conclusion :

The numbers pretty much speak for themselves. In gaming the E8xxx series owns the I3's because of it's 6mb of L2 cache. If you have an E8500 and E8600 i see no reason for you to upgrade to the I3. If you have anything less then a E8xxx series and don't want to splurge on an I5 Quad. I highly suggest you order a 530. Why a 530? Cheaper and Highly Overclockable like it's brother the 540.

"My Logic Is Undeniable"

 

[alyarb]

can you run all of those with the i3's at their max OC?

 

[Hey Zeus]

can you run all of those with the i3's at their max OC?

Those are AnAndtech's benchmarks. I won't have any benchmarks till thursday.

 

[alyarb]

oh. well i think we all read the article. i just wish more tech sites would publish their OC performance. bit tech does it, and they're great but they had abysmal clarkdale overclocks.

 

[Hey Zeus]

oh. well i think we all read the article. i just wish more tech sites would publish their OC performance. bit tech does it, and they're great but they had abysmal clarkdale overclocks.

I haven't really seen much in the way of I3 Overclocks. Lots of I5 ones tho. Wish my damn board would get here already

 

[toyota]

Those are AnAndtech's benchmarks. I won't have any benchmarks till thursday.

where are you getting the E8500 numbers from since it wasnt even in the review?

 

[Hey Zeus]

where are you getting the E8500 numbers from since it wasnt even in the review?

Anandtech

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/default.aspx?p=55

 

[BD231]

You better overclock that thing the minute you get it!! 32nm goodness.

 

[Zap]

the real gem's are the I3's.

That's the conclusion I've come to as well.

 

[Voo]

That's the conclusion I've come to as well.

I think that's the conclusion everyone has come to..

 

[toyota]

I think that's the conclusion everyone has come to..

yep...

 

[cbn]

Why is Core i3 so much worse in these games--->http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3704&p=12

But in Windows 7 it looks like a completely different animal compared to e8xxx.-->http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3704&p=13

 

[toyota]

Why is Core i3 so much worse in these games--->http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3704&p=12

But in Windows 7 it looks like a completely different animal compared to e8xxx.-->http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3704&p=13

well different games plus Windows 7 was built to take better advantage of hyper threading.