Core i7-3970X Extreme Review: Can It Stomp An Eight-Core Xeon?
After one year of dominating the enthusiast space, Intel's Core i7-3960X is being replaced. The new Core i7-3970X features higher clock rates, but also imposes a 150 W TDP. Just for kicks, we're putting it up against another 150 W CPU: the Xeon E5-2687W.
Benchmark Results: Sandra 2013
Memory bandwidth and hardware-accelerated AES encryption/decryption performance are closely related, since the processor is able to crank through instructions as fast as the memory subsystem can feed them in. As a result, the LGA 2011-based platforms, with their quad-channel architectures, dominate.
.NET performance is particularly important now that Windows 8 is available, along with a growing library of Metro UI-based applications.
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