Test Setup And Benchmarks
| System Hardware | |
|---|---|
| Hardware | Details |
| Motherboard (LGA 1156) | MSI H55M-ED55 (Rev. 1.0) Chipset: H55 BIOS: 1.11 (01/04/2010) |
| CPU Intel | Intel Core i5-661 (32nm, 3.33 GHz, 2 x 256KB L2 and 4MB L3 Cache, TDP 87W) |
| RAM DDR3 (dual) | 2 x 2GB DDR3-1600 (Corsair CMD4GX3M2A1600C8) |
| Hard Drive | Solidata K5 SLC Flash SSD SATA/300, 64MB Cache |
| Graphics | Zotac GeForce GTX 260² GPU: GeForce GTX 260 (576 MHz), Graphics RAM: 896MB DDR3 (1,998 MHz), Stream Processors: 216, Shader Clock: 1242 MHz |
| Power Supply | PC Power & Cooling, Silencer 750EPS12V 750W |
| System Software & Drivers | |
| Operating System | Windows 7 Ultimate X64 Updated 2010-01-11 |
| Drivers and Settings | |
| Intel Chipset Drivers | Chipset Installation Utility Ver. 9.1.1.1025 |
| Nvidia Graphics Drivers | Version 8.16 |
| Application Benchmarks and Settings | |
| Benchmark | Details |
| 7-zip | Version 9.1 beta 1. Syntax "a -r -ptest -t7z -m0=LZMA2 -mx1 -mmt=8" 2. Syntax "a -r -ptest -t7z -m0=LZMA2 -mx9 -mmt=8" 3. Integrated Benchmark Benchmark: THG-Workload |
| BitLocker | Windows 7 integrated Encrypt RAM-Drive (330MB) Benchmark: THG-Workload |
| WinZip 14 | Version 14.0 Pro (8652) WinZip Commandline Version 3 1. Syntax "-stest -ycAES256 -a -el -p -r" 2. Syntax "-stest -ycAES256 -a -e0 -p -r" Benchmark: THG-Workload |
| Synthetic Benchmarks and Settings | |
| Benchmark | Details |
| Everest | Version: 5.3 Zlib and AES Benchmark |
| PCMark Vantage | Version: 1.00 Communications Suite |
| SiSoftware Sandra 2009 | Version: 2010 .1.16.10 Processor Arithmetic, Cryptography, Memory Bandwith |
The competition for this review: Intel’s LGA 1156-compatible Core i7-870 quad-core.
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Good grief. About 3 mistakes on the first page!
I may be being a bit skeptical, butputting on the highest i5 chips that include a GPU? Does this not sound like a money spinner?
Nice to see that Intel have finally caught up with Via...
Shame we can't see any benchmarks to compare the performance of the AES engines.
I'd think it's not all good things coming from this ability.
Malware programmers can benefit from it as it should accelerate decrypting passwords and alike.
Gee lets compare a quad core to a dual core? WTF! No balance or objectivity here at all! This got past the editors how?
How does the CPU knows about to use the ASE instructions? Is there a special library comming with the Benchmarks?
Please do some Linux tests! IMHO the support for the new AES-NI has been in the kernel for quite some time (done by Intel long before those CPUs even came to the market!) and dm-crypt is a very nice way to test REAL WORLD speeds.
Imagine new i5 without AES-NI! Why would you buy it anyway when it is always inferior compared to i7? Well - there comes Intel marketing guys and say: We will put AES-NI just in i5 (in the beginning) hoping that the product will attract some buyers. If they put now AES-NI in i7, i5 will be doomed processor.
This would be very nice in a firewall. VPN thoughput on one of these CPU's would be awsome.
My Guess is that where this CPU will end up. The next gen of Cisco ASA series and the like.
Still kinda sucks... as the AES-NI is only for the 1156 socket. Unless I feel like forking out 1K for the 980x (1366)