Intel Ivy Bridge 3rd Generation Processors CPU 3770K & 3570K Performance Review Linus Tech Tips
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·2013-05-07
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welcome to my belated Ivy Bridge coverage so in front of me here I have a
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few different processors uh some of the processors that we've tested are
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represented by boxes here some of them are not but I want to start with outlining the overall Ivy Bridge lineup
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so we have everything from the lowly 3450 so this is a core i5 that's a dual
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core that has uh no k at the end so that
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means this is not an unlocked overclocking processor although you can
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still overclock it a little bit but n very very very limited it also has a 50
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at the end of the part number and what that means is that it has HD 2500
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graphics and that'll be important for one of my other videos where I'm going
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to do an onboard Graphics Roundup where I compare the 2500 the 4,000 the older
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last generation 3000 that was on sandybridge as well as AMD's 3 870k Apu
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that has their onboard radon Graphics so let's hold on let's keep going though uh
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so for the rest of lineup so what all this means i7 means you have hyperthreading I5 means no
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hyperthreading the uh 30 whatever seems
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to have some sort of indication in terms of the rank within the product stack a
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50 versus a 70 means um 2500 versus
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Intel HD graphics 4000 which is significantly more powerful from our
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testing and then the K at the end means
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that you have uh an unlocked processor
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that can be easily overclocked and in this case the 3770k sample that we were
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working with was able to easily achieve 4.6 GHz and that's 24/7 stable in fact
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that is the setting that we used for our Max overclocking result so you know what
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I guess we might as well just go with uh here I'm going to hide The igp
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Showdown actually no I shouldn't yes I'll hide these ones for now there we go
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so let's let's just go through this you guys let's do this as like a one take so
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in terms of the tests that I ran my timing was fairly limited so with a
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single GTX 680 I ran most of this other stuff so PC Mark 7 cine bench as well as
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using either quicksync or no quicksync to quickly convert a video using arsoft
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media encoder 7 so I took a 1 gig file and then I outputed it in an iPhone 4
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compatible format and timed how long it took so I'll do that as sort of round
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two through all of the tests so PC Mark 7 wise we can clearly see that the max
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overclocked 3770k you know what I'll turn these into graphs all right so
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we're just going to do these one at a time here's PC Mark 7 basically this
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doesn't benefit as much from multiple cores as you might expect so our 8 core
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processor the 8150 from AMD as well as our six core processor the
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3930k don't actually do that well I mean the 3930k scores a little bit better
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than it's Sandy Bridge Brethren remember this is Sandy Bridge e but the 8150 just
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yeah doesn't doesn't do that well in this test you can see that it does
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however benefit from significantly higher core clock speed so once we
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overclocked our 3770k to 4.6 GHz the
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score dramatically improved and we do get a slight Boost from hyperthreading
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here you can see however though with Sandy Bridge we were pretty much within
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margin of error on these two processors so yeah all of this take it with a bit
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of a grain of salt remember this is still a synthetic
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Benchmark here's our cinch test so you can see this was run in two different
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settings single-threaded as well as multi-threaded so you can see the single
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threading runs according to uh you know
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increasing down the graph so that's the order it's sort of set up in however the
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multi-threading is where some of these processors really differentiate each
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other from each other so the 8150 gets
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pretty much destroyed in the single-threaded test Falling by about to
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about half of the score of the 3770 with the max overclock on it um however due
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to its eight cores it does sort of make up some and Falls pretty in between the
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2500k and the 3570k which is appropriate
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given its price point uh the New Generation IV Bridge processors beat
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their last generation Sandy Bridge equivalents by about 10% so this is
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pretty much to be expected and then you can see here that the Sandy Bridge core
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which is the same as on Sandy Bridge e the six core 3930k scores about the same
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in the single thread however just sort of Stomps all over everything when it
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comes to multi-threading because this is six course 12 12 threads you have to do
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some serious overclocking that is about 4.6 GHz on ivybridge in order to get it
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to catch up to Sandy Bridge e um in a
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multi-threaded test like the cin bench test for Battlefield 3 guys remember
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this is a custom run through so the results might not have the same kind of
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consistency but I believe them to be well real world accurate so Battlefield
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3 seems to care about multi-threading you can see here our 3930k performs
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extremely well even running with the big dog in this test which is the 3770k at
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its maximum overclock and remember a 3930k is good for at least you know a
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reasonable overclock to 4. Mid GHz as well so there's more performance to be
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squeezed out of it now unlike some CPU reviews I've gone with realistic
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settings 108p High details so that's why you're not seeing much difference in
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terms of the performance of these processors let's face it they're all
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pretty close everything here uses Sandy Bridge everything here uses Ivory bridge
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and this is the lone AMD CPU and the test you can see the FX 8150 doesn't do
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that well but everything else is pretty close when it comes to the max FPS with
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the 3770k max OC winning and everything else
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here is pretty similar when it comes to the minimum FPS as well did I say Max
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cuz I meant average so the red bar is average and the blue bar is the minimum
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so this is all sort of within margin of error and this is the one that's really
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lagging behind in this case if you want to see those numbers a
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little bit better there you go running with my usual Witcher two
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settings you can see again there's not much separation here in terms of
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performance with the exception of the 393 6 uh
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3930k which shows its prowess again with
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its multi coreness as well as the 3770k
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being the clear winner again and the 8150 being the uh lesser performing part
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out of all of the parts in this particular
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test I'm using yeah my usual settings I think I
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already said that now it should be noted that while I am using realistic settings
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for the games I'm using maybe a bit of an unrealistic configuration these are
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dual 797s overclocked at 1.07 5
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gigahertz um 8 gigs of RAM MSI z77a gd65
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board I used an MSI x79 something or
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other gd65 for LGA 2011 and then I used
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a Crosshair 5 formula for the AMD test
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bench I'm using an SSD for my boot Drive
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Patriot wildfire and that's pretty much it let's get into the Skyrim results so
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skym uh as you can see doesn't really like the 8150 very much and really
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benefits from better IPC and higher clock speeds as you can see here more
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than it benefits from multiple cores so
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the clear winner in this guy is the 377k due to its overall faster than the other
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stuffiness so guys actually I changed my mind about the uh the quicksync and uh
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media encoder media converter 7 results
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I'm just going to do a general overview of what's special about Ivy bridge and
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we're going to wrap this one up as just a performance overview so Ivy bridge in
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general what's special new 22 nanometer manufacturing process reasonable
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overclocking although it does get pretty toasty you're going to want something like a Corsair h100 or an h80 to keep it
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pretty cool if you want to go over around 4.5 GHz um performance wise yes
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it's better than Sandy bridge I don't have a Sandy Bridge box to represent
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here it is better than FX however FX Has
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uh you know some pretty aggressive pricing going on and considering how
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many cores are included there's something to be said for that and oh
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yeah right other stuff Lucid virtue MVP is supported on the uh on the similar
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time frame released z77 chipset you've also got support for overclocking
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hyperthreading turbo boost as well as um
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better onboard Graphics so the better onboard Graphics not only affects um if
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you're using onboard Graphics but also affects if you are using uh media
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converter 7 and you're using the igp in order to convert your media uh which is
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like way I'm not going to spoil it but it's way way faster than any other way
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of doing it especially with the new ibridge processors using the
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hd4000 graphics uh virtue MVP basically is just
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a way to use used the onboard Graphics to improve performance in games although
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in my experience it didn't make that much of a difference and the spotty
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consistency of the results of that particular technology made it not that
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appealing to me the z77 platform with an ivy Bridge also supports PCI Express 3.0
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which means your latest generation 7900 series 7800 series and 600 series
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graphics cards are going to be able to really stretch their legs even if you're
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using a mainstream platform that only supports 8X 8X bandwidth that is you
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equivalent to PCIe 2.0 16x 16x so thank
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