Benchmark Results: SiSoftware Sandra
Though none of our games and few of our real-world applications take full advantage of our processor’s extra cores, Sandra's Arithmetic module offers us a peek at the benefits that are theoretically possible. Sandra's Multimedia test demonstrates smaller performance gains from the new processor’s six cores, likely because Sandy Bridge-E is an older architecture than Ivy Bridge, which made its debut last quarter.
Though two times as many memory channels don't enable twice as much bandwidth, we still find Sandra’s Memory Bandwidth numbers encouraging.
