Intel's Ivy Bridge vs. Sandy Bridge Benchmarks Leaked
We get an early glimpse of the potential of the upcoming Ivy Bridge CPUs through initial benchmarks.
With the Intel's Ivy Bridge set to release around April 2012, Intel has reportedly begun sending official Ivy Bridge performance expectations to its partners, manufacturers and resellers. Xbit-labs has published a set of slides that are supposedly from Intel, but are not sanctioned for general public consumption. These could give us an early glimpse of what type of performance we might expect when Ivy Bridge hits the market.
The charts show the Intel Core i7-3770, which is a has 4 cores (8 threads) at 3.40 GHz, with 8MB L3 cache going up against the current Core i7-2600 with similar specifications.
According to the chart, there is an improvement across the board with the new Core i7-3770 processor. Intel states the improvement is due to improved architecture and a higher turbo boost performance. This may be attributed to the new 22nm 3D Tri-Gate technology utilized with the upcoming processors.
- 7% improvement in SYSmark 2012 score
- 14% improvement in HDXPRT 2011 score
- 15% improvement in Cinebench 11.5 score
- 13% improvement in ProShow Gold 4.5 results
- 25% improvement in Excel 2010 performance
The charts also show the improvement Intel's HD Graphics 4000 offers over current gen integrated graphics. The improved HD Graphics 4000 features an enhanced AVX acceleration, support for DX11 & OpenCL 1.1, along with PCI-Express Gen 3.0.
- 56% faster performance in ArcSoft Media Expresso
- 192% higher overall 3DMark Vantage Performance Preset - Score
- 17% faster performance in 3DMark Vantage Performance Preset - CPU benchmark
- 199% faster performance in 3DMark Vantage Performance Preset - GPU benchmark
Stay tuned as hopefully more details trickle out on what type of gaming performance can be expected with the new Ivy Bridge processors.


Where are the raw numbers? It can always be claimed that a processor is "25% faster" than the previous generation even when the truth isn't there- AMD seems to be good at this.
Almost every benchmark up there has something to do with HD4000. ProShow's probably using Quick Sync since you're creating an MPEG-2 movie file.
The only thing that remains a mystery to me is the Excel benchmark since that's the only one where HD4000 wouldn't skew the numbers. Or are there other accelerations in this CPU that Excel 2010 can use that aren't in Sandy Bridge?
So yeah, it's a new architecture, but it doesn't seem to be a must-have upgrade from an i5-2500K.
According to that chart, it's nearly 3x the performance, graphics wise compared to Sandy Bridge.
Sandy Bridge can do about 4K on 3dmark06, and so think of 10K on 3dmark06 with Ivybridge, pretty darn good. Better than my Asus G50VT gaming laptop. Who knows if it really is that much better but that's what the marketing shows.
I paid $320 CAD for my i7-920 rev D-0, which is 2.66GHz stock but I run 3.7GHz on stock voltage. I bought it about two years ago (I think). Will I have any reason to replace my rig? I have a good enough PSU I can through in any card I want, and when overclocked my CPU bulls through anything I do.
I had no reason to upgrade for Sandy Bridge. Will I have one for Ivy bridge, other than for increased amount of RAM slots? That is a tempting reason though. For the same price of a 3x2GB set when I built my system, I could buy a 6x4GB set now.
This max TDP of 77W stuff better not be true! I live in a cold country; my i7 keeps me warm at night.
Sandy Bridge can do about 4K on 3dmark06, and so think of 10K on 3dmark06 with Ivybridge, pretty darn good. Better than my Asus G50VT gaming laptop. Who knows if it really is that much better but that's what the marketing shows.
except they didn't compare it to he best that sandy bridge has to offer. They compared it to HD2000.
Did you even bother to click the link to the article about it? You should actually read about something before you deride it. I'm not sure why it's so hard to believe that a bunch of the highest-qualified engineers in the business came up with a new method of constructing transistors.
Where did you get that info? AMD is not dead it just want to stop compete with Intel in desktop market.
?... since when was the i7-2600K $369? It's been around $315-$320 since release.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115070
I think you may be a little confused. Ivy Bridge has a dual channel memory controller, as opposed to the triple channel on your i7-920, so you would actually have fewer DIMM slots then your current system. But this is irrelevant, as the increased efficiency in Sandy Bridge's memory controller allows it to achieve near parity with Bloomfield in terms of memory bandwidth, despite its narrower interface. And Sandy/Ivy Bridge is also capable of addressing higher density memory, up to 32GB (4x8GB) where as your current platform maxes out at 24GB (6x4GB).
Last I checked the CPU rendering benchmark in Cinebench 11.5 is highly threaded and very CPU bound, it doesn't use the GPU. And many of the benchmarks in the top chart wouldn't see much of a benefit from a more aggressive turbo boost or a faster GPU, as they're also heavily threaded and CPU bound. Looks like the second chart is meant as the GPU comparison, not the first.
And it's not a new architecture, it's Sandy Bridge with tweaks and optimizations on Intel's 22nm process.
Put me on a 5.2ghz Ivy and I'll be set for a good while.