
Both of our 3ds Max benchmarks favor Intel’s hexa-core processors, and the Ivy Bridge architecture is enough to earn Core i7-4960X the top spot yet again. Core i7-3970X isn’t far behind though, and it’s not hard to imagine an overclocked Core i7-3930K topping both flagship chips.

There’s a fairly consistent pattern in play. Threaded workloads that would have favored Sandy Bridge-E are just a few percent faster on Ivy Bridge-E. In this case, we’re looking at about a 5% speed-up. All three LGA 2011-based CPUs are quite a bit quicker than the LGA 1150/1155-based models.

Based on Maxon’s Cinema 4D software, our scripted Cinebench test measure single- and multi-core processor performance.
Clearly, the threaded component of this benchmark favors Ivy Bridge-E, as Intel’s Core i7-4960X turns in a score 4% higher than the -3970X. And although Ivy Bridge-E also demonstrates an advantage over Sandy Bridge-E in the single-core metric, Haswell demonstrates the top result when we isolate one thread.
Way to look mature and professional Intel. Make some real performance advances and you'll get more positive reviews.
I do suggest you do some homework. This would be a good start.
I do suggest you do some homework. This would be a good start.
Thanks for posting - really interesting read! I wonder how many developers are using the patched compiler... and I wonder if big developers like Gearbox get any encouragement from Intel to not use the patched compiler. Obviously it's beneficial for any developer if their software can reach a wider audience. I've neutralised the thumbs down on your first post by the way with a thumbs up :-)
I do suggest you do some homework. This would be a good start.
Yeh, the Intel compiler continues to be a big issue... AMD CPUs will continue to be very popular for Linux users...
last night I DOWN clocked my old C2Q9650 to 2Ghz (1333fsb, 6x multiplier) from it's overclock of 4Ghz. speedstepping takes that down further to a reported 1.3Ghz.
power, heat, noise, are all much reduced.
in yet skyrim, farcry3, yadda yadda are all fine?
i've not actually run the numbers regarding frame rate, but 20% cpu useage on all cores, and 97% GPU useage on a GTX670. i think i see my bottleneck. and it doesn't seem to be the CPU.... i guess from my point of view, my CPU upgrade days are over?
I'm not too sure about that. The next generation of games will be optimized for eight threads due to the relatively weak AMD CPU in the XBOX1 and PS4. But hey, it could be that all you really need is a quad core made in the past few years.
We'll see.
The GNU compiler is slightly better value...
Intel Linux Compiler Comparison chart