System Builder Marathon, Q3 2013: $1300 Enthusiast PC

Results: Rendering And Productivity

Again, while some of these applications are being optimized for OpenCL acceleration, our suite is currently CPU-heavy. The rendering, optical character recognition, and compiling workloads all utilize as many threads as possible.

Similar chips, differentiated primarily by incremental architectural improvements, return benchmark results that come very close to each other. Haswell naturally establishes a small lead in these metrics due to the optimizations Intel made to IPC throughput.