Intel Sandy Bridge E Review

Written by James Gorbold

November 14, 2011 | 16:11

Tags: #comparative #cpu #lga2011 #overclock #overclocking #performance #processor #recommended #sandy-bridge #sandy-bridge-e

Companies: #amd #intel

Cinebench R11.5 64-bit

Download from: www.maxon.net

Cinebench R11.5 uses Maxon's Cinema 4D engine to render a photo-realistic scene of some shiny balls and weird things (we miss the motorbike). The scene is highly complex, with reflections, ambient occlusion and procedural shaders so it gives a CPU a tough workout.

As Cinema 4D is a real-world application - used on films such as Spider-Man and Star Wars - Cinebench R11.5 can be viewed as a real-world benchmark.

Cinebench R11.5

64-bit, CPU test

  • 2 x Intel Xeon X5680
  • 2 x AMD Opteron 6174
  • 2 x Intel Xeon X5650
  • Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition (3.3GHz/4.7GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-3930K (3.2GHz/4.7GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-990X Extreme Edition (3.46GHz/4.6GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-2600K (3.4GHz/5GHz)
  • AMD FX-8150 (3.6GHz/4.818GHz)
  • Intel Core i5-2500K (3.3GHz/5GHz)
  • AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition (3.3GHz/4.2GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-920 (2.66GHz/4.04GHz)
    • 17.03
    • 22.03
    • 14.72
    • 0.00
    • 13.56
    • 19.22
    • 11.29
    • 13.61
    • 10.15
    • 13.50
    • 9.28
    • 11.59
    • 7.49
    • 9.78
    • 6.01
    • 7.95
    • 5.93
    • 7.71
    • 5.86
    • 7.35
    • 4.82
    • 6.91
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5
10
15
20
25
Score, higher is better
  • Stock Speed
  • Overclocked

Read our Performance Analysis for the i7-3960X and i7-3930K

WPrime 2.05

Download from: www.wprime.net

WPrime is a multi-threaded maths calculation benchmark that counter-intuitively uses square roots rather than prime numbers. The standard benchmark uses 32 million numbers, calculating the square root via 'a recursive call of Newton's method for estimating functions'. We're not sure what that means either, but you can read the full blurb on WPrime's About page. What we do know is that WPrime scales well across multiple CPU cores, and can push a CPU to 100 per cent load on all its cores.

To run the benchmark, first visit the core count to check that WPrime will load all physical and logical cores, and then run the 32M test. The results are expressed as a time taken to calculate the square root of the set of numbers (32 million in the standard test). A lower score is better.

WPrime 2.05

32M test, all available process threads

  • 2 x Intel Xeon X5680
  • 2 x AMD Opteron 6174
  • 2 x Intel Xeon X5650
  • Intel Core i7-3960X Extreme Edition (3.3GHz/4.7GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-3930K (3.2GHz/4.7GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-990X Extreme Edition (3.46GHz/4.6GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-2600K (3.4GHz/5GHz)
  • AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition (3.3GHz/4.2GHz)
  • AMD FX-8150 (3.6GHz/4.818GHz)
  • Intel Core i5-2500K (3.3GHz/5GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-920 (2.66GHz/4.04GHz)
    • 2.969
    • 2.313
    • 3.824
    • 0.000
    • 4.135
    • 2.625
    • 4.932
    • 4.134
    • 5.270
    • 4.100
    • 5.567
    • 4.338
    • 7.303
    • 6.130
    • 8.300
    • 6.429
    • 9.484
    • 7.445
    • 9.985
    • 7.459
    • 10.778
    • 7.552
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3
5.5
8
10.5
Time (sec), lower is better
  • Stock Speed
  • Overclocked

Read our Performance Analysis for the i7-3960X and i7-3930K
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