I moved the games to the end of our performance benchmarks, if only because the charts are so boring. It’s hardly a surprise, but there’s almost zero difference between any of these platforms with just a single GeForce GTX 580 installed.
“So why not show what this system can do with three cards able to more fully populate the processor’s 40 PCI Express lanes, Chris?”
Unfortunately, we weren’t able to get multi-card configurations working on our test board—likely a driver-based shortcoming that’ll be addressed closer to X79’s official launch.
Summary
- Sandy Bridge-E And X79 Are Almost Ready
- Sandy Bridge-E: Combining Two Pretty Popular Worlds
- X79 Express And Another New Processor Interface
- Overclocking Sandy Bridge-E
- Hardware Setup And Benchmarks
- Benchmark Results: PCMark 7
- Benchmark Results: 3DMark 11
- Benchmark Results: Sandra 2011
- Benchmark Results: Content Creation
- Benchmark Results: Productivity
- Benchmark Results: Media Encoding
- Benchmark Results: Metro 2033
- Benchmark Results: F1 2010
- Benchmark Results: Aliens Vs. Predator
- Sandy Bridge-E: More Speed On The Desktop, But A Bigger Deal To Servers
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