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Intel Core i7-4930MX Mobile CPU Unofficially Benchmarked

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The upcoming Intel i7-4930MX mobile processor has been benchmarked by Chinese forum Benyouhui.it168 in AIDA64, 3DMark 11 and seems able to run Battlefield 3.

Chinese forum Benyouhui.it168 has posted some initial benchmarks of Intel’s upcoming flagship mobile processor, the 22 nm quad-core Core i7-4930MX.

The CPU features a base clock of 3.0 GHz, a boost clock of 3.7 GHz, an 8 MB L3 Cache, 57 W TDP and supports DDR3 and DDR3-L memory clocked at up to 1600 MHz. The i7-4930MX also includes the Intel HD 4600 iGP which features a 400 MHz core clock, 1350 MHz memory clock, 20 execution units with two ROPs, four TMUs and a 128-bit DDR3 memory interface. 

In addition to evidently allowing games such as Battlefield 3, Need for Speed: Most Wanted (2012) to be playable at 1366 x 768, the i7-4930MX also scored the following in AIDA 64 and Futuremark’s 3DMark 11:

AIDA 64 Extreme Edition

  • CPU AES - 16,492 MB/s
  • CPU ZLiB - 309.1 MB/s
  • CPU Hash - 3014 MB/s
  • CPU PhotoWorxx - 14,315 Mpixel/s

3DMark 11

  • Performance Preset: P1418
  • Extreme Preset: X374 

It’s worth noting that Intel’s upcoming “Iris Pro” graphics seems set to provide even more processing power that certainly has the potential to allow systems to offer respectable gaming performance without needing a discrete graphics card.

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12 Comments Comment from the forums
  • Jerky_san
    Man a 57w TDP.. Surprised its not lower but it sure is powerful..
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  • alidan
    would love to know what those numbers mean in better detail.
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  • wanderer11
    Why is there an X in the cpu name? Are people really going to OC a laptop?
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  • scook9
    @Wanderer11 Yes, yes people paying $1k for a CPU - which is what this will cost - are going to OC a laptop. the Alienware M18x with the 2920xm could sustain 4.5 GHz with the stock paste and air cooling due to its awesomely open and configurable BIOS.
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  • razor512
    performance seems pretty good for a mobile CPU.
    PS many asus gaming laptops allow you to overclock the CPU (though generally through overclocking presets.
    If something can be overclocked safely then it should be as it is free performance.
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  • danwat1234
    10771540 said:
    Why is there an X in the cpu name? Are people really going to OC a laptop?

    Not sure about the X but yeah people overclock laptop CPUs in their laptops. Some laptops have decent stock cooling systems and so they like to push the limits.
    For instance my tactic is generally to buy a laptop with great cooling, great looks, and decent GPU and underlying hardware and interfaces. Then down the road when the highest end CPU is like $150 I buy it and swap it in! For instance with my G50VT, started with a P8700 then went to an X9100 for $110 and keep that guy at about 3.3GHZ and 90C when I'm crunching (nearly 24/7). Tough CPU

    3GHZ stock clocks on a mobile quad core is awesome! First time they've hit that clockrate with the Nehalem/post Nehalem architecture.
    I remember when it topped out at 2.133GHZ with the 1st gen quad core i7 (45nm), the dual cores at the time were 32nm.
    14nm, who knows, bet they will reduce the power to 45w and bump it to 3.2GHZ base and then 10nm hopefully 6 cores.

    Why no Iris graphics (HD 5200) in this CPU? Since it isn't a thermal problem, since the components can dynamically clock on demand, why not put it in.
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  • warezme
    respectable gaming without a discrete graphics card is the holy grail yet it never seems to pan out year after year. 1366x768 at mid or low res isn't respectable gaming. 1920x1080 at mid to high on a laptop with built in graphics would be.
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  • jamesjones_det
    10771474 said:
    Man a 57w TDP.. Surprised its not lower but it sure is powerful..

    If I'm not mistaken Haswell moved the voltage reg on die so that adds some TDP and having 2010 (or so claimed) GPU performance on die probably bumps that but a big chunk too.

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  • tipoo
    What I'm wondering is if that eDRAM would also help CPU performance, and by how much and in what type of task. Supposedly both can use it.
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  • alidan
    the gpu will more or less be phased out at some point, graphics in games cant infinitely get better unless there is some way to automate it, so there is an upper limit to what we can do graphicly, and while you could make a gpu more powerful than integrated, it will be a specialty item like sounds cards are today, you get them for a reason, you have the high end need.
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