Unofficial Benchmarks Show Intel Core i7-4960X Ivy Bridge-E Performing 10% Faster Than i7-3970X

[RedundantInk]

Based on very early benchmarks, the upcoming Intel Core i7-4960 Ivy Bridge-E processors will deliver 5 percent to 10 percent better performance than their Sandy Bridge-E predecessor.

Unofficial Benchmarks Show Intel Core i7-4960X Ivy Bridge-E Performing 10% Faster Than i7-3970X : Read more

 

[powerincarnate]

All that time for 10%, that sucks. It's been 2 years since Sandy Bridge E came out.

 

[vmem]

hopefully they at least fix and update all the mobo issues with Sandy E. I want to upgrade from my OCed 2500K because I'm starting to do some processor heavy work, and it seems that neither 4770k nor 4960X are too interesting atm. should've just bought a 3960x or something

 

[g-unit1111]

Sounds about exactly what I'd expect anymore from one generation to the next.

 

[InvalidError]

All that time for 10%, that sucks. It's been 2 years since Sandy Bridge E came out.

What else did you expect? SB to IB only had 5-10% improvement on mainstream LGA1155 chips so it follows naturally that the same would occur on LGA2011.

Based on leaked Haswell numbers, you can expect Haswell-E to be yet another "only ~10%" over IB-E as well.

The majority of cost-effective and power-efficient clock+IPC improvements are tapped out. We will most likely never see the days of 40%/year improvements ever again unless Intel and AMD decide to start a core count war... but such a war is pointless when almost no mainstream software is capable of making meaningful use of it.

 

[oraygungor]

If you really compared it, it is not even 10%...
http://img.donanimhaber.com//images/haber/46217/corei74960xxx2_dh_fx57.jpg

 

[powerincarnate]

Well, By the time Ivy Bridge E comes out, it will be two year, that is a long time in processor world. I miss the days of Moore's law of getting like a doubling of performance every 18 months.
I remember having a 500 mhz Pentium3 and then like 2 years later, got an Athlon XP 1600+ and that was like night and day then.
I remember like 2 years later getting an Athlon 64 3200 and that was like night and day compared to the previous one.
I remember going from That to Core 2 due E 6600, and again, that was like night and day.
I remember going from that to Core 2 Quad Q9550, and that was a lot bettter, but more importantly, I didn't go that route, but I remember the folks who went from a Core 2 duo like I had and went to the Core I7 processors, and they had a huge jump.
For me, I took the route of coure 2 quad first, and then went to the Sandy Bridge E 3820, but 2 years is a lot of time, and to only get 5-10% performance then, that sucks.
For the GPU days, 2 years use to be two generation, so again, same huge improvements like for me it was going from Rage card to Radeon 64 DDR, then I had the Radeon 9700 pro,
Then the 8800 GT (nVidia),
then I was stuck because I still had an AGP motherboard,
finally when I switched to the Core 2 Duo, I also got a Radeon 4870, and switched it shortly after for the 5850, and now the 7970.
It seems AMD and Nvidia are both in a rut as well, because the next general is going to be late by 2 years, and I don't have high hopes for the old days of massive gains.

 

[rolli59]

Small steps just means that our current hardware is going to be competitive longer.

 

[InvalidError]

I miss the days of Moore's law of getting like a doubling of performance every 18 months.

Moore's law was about transistor count, not performance. The combination of clock rate increases and extra transistors just happened to roughly double performance at a similar rate for about 15 years or so.

The clock rate part of the performance gain equation hit a brick wall almost a decade ago with the market shift towards power-efficiency while the transistor count is mostly driven by IGP and cache these days because there are few other cost-effective uses for the growing transistor budget on mainstream CPUs.

Unless mainstream software starts actually using multi-core CPUs, even transistor counts may end up brick-walled by lack of software to justify it in the mainstream market.

 

[Guest]

I know its a CPU benchmark but a GTX 480 in the test run, really? This won't be worth an upgrade over Ivy but for those of us that are on 2 year old cpus (2600k) like me it should be.

 

[warezme]

Isn't 10% considered within the margin of error so , no change. So sad AMD lost their competitive edge cause now we're stuck with no CPU performance progress.

 

[becherovka]

It would be nice if it come with a price drop

 

[dr-hoads]

For me:
6809->386sx 16mhz (ZOMG! 117 times faster!!!)
386 -> P100 (NO WAY! 30 times faster!!)
P100 -> 233MMX (This is more like it!! 2 times faster!)
233MMX -> PIII 1GhZ (Who will ever need more than this?!? 6.5 times faster!!)
PIII -> P4 3Ghz (This is Insane!! 3 times faster!)
P4 -> 2600K (I can do everything I did before, but now it is awesome fast, 15 times faster - multi thread, 3.5 times faster - single thread)
Starting to think that I will not have to upgrade my 2600K for a long LONG time. Maybe there will be a revolutionary step, but as it stands it will take like 10 years to double performance... At least I don't feel like I have to spend money to upgrade, I just hope it does not end up killing the enthusiast crowd out of boredom. :-(

 

[MrPintar14]

I think this is just a genious way to promote a website

 

[MrPintar14]

I think this is just a genious way to promote a website

 

[wavetrex]

But how do they overclock ? Will they use the same stupid tim paste like for non-E ivy?

 

[MrPintar14]

I think this is just a genious way to promote a website

 

[christop]

I didn't think it was going to be 50 percent jump..

 

[alfaalex101]

AMD isn't phased by this type of news anymore

 

[cj_online]

Is it just me or is the naming scheme for the E-edition CPUs extremely misleading?
Core i7-3970X is a SB-E whilst 3770K is IB.
Likewise, Core i7-4960X is an IB-E whilst 4770K is Haswell? Huh?
Couldn't they have just kept the same nomenclature for the same architecture?

 

[rmpumper]

AMD, release some benches on Steamroller already or Intel will start charging gazillion dollars for 1-2% improvements on CPUs.

 

[amoralman]

You should not care as the low difference will indeed permit users to keep sing old hardware longer hence, saving money to spend elsewhere.
Still going with C2D E8400 and GTX460 and I'm sure I do not NEED an upgrade to play any games.

 

[shadowfamicom]

Waiting to see how the Ivy Bridge-E 2011 socket CPUs compare when they come out late this year (hopefully).

 

[InvalidError]

233MMX -> PIII 1GhZ (Who will ever need more than this?!? 6.5 times faster!!)
PIII -> P4 3Ghz (This is Insane!! 3 times faster!)

The P4 had horrible IPC compared to the P3 and that made it the laughing stock of many enthusiast sites for several months. The P4 did not start to clearly outperform the 1GHz P3 until the P4 hit 2GHz, which must have been quite embarrassing for Intel. With HT, the 3GHz P4 may be just over twice as fast as the 1GHz P3 - not counting software optimized specifically for the P4.

 

[xxsk8er101xx]

I'm wondering if the Core i7-4970X is a 8-core processor. It's been rumored that Intel will introduce one for the single CPU workstation market.
Keep in mind though that you can pop in the Ivy Bridge into your existing 2011 motherboards. I wonder if Intel will keep the same socket for Haswell? Making a purchase of the 2011 motherboards a nice long term investment.