Impostazioni di prova
Dobbiamo mettere in chiaro una cosa rispetto al nostro primo articolo su Sandy Bridge-E. In quel pezzo abbiamo usato una scheda madre Intel DX79SI, insieme a un kit da 16 GB di G.Skill per misurare lo scaling nel bandwidth. Purtroppo quei moduli non operano oltre DDR3-1600, e così dobbiamo passare a una piattaforma alternativa.
Insieme a Intel abbiamo determinato che il firmware di quella scheda aveva un bug che impediva di caricare i profili XMP, e bisognava procedere all'impostazione manuale dei timing con frequenze più elevate. Un successivo aggiornamento ha risolto il problema, e ci ha permesso di usare la scheda madre per questi test.
Le barre blu che vedete nelle prossime pagine rappresentano tutti i processori testati con le impostazioni standard. Per tutte le piattaforme Sandy Bridge-E il test è stato realizzato su scheda madre DX79SI, come nel primo articolo, con 32 GB di memoria Crucial per aggirare ogni potenziale limitazione.
Le due barre rosse indicano invece le prestazioni della piattaforma a basso costo, standard e overcloccata; si tratta di una ASRock X79 Extreme4-M con memorie G.Skill F3-12800CL9Q-8GBZL.
| Configurazione di prova | |
|---|---|
| Processori | Intel Core i7-3930K (Sandy Bridge-E) 3.2 GHz (32 * 100 MHz), LGA 2011, 12 MB Shared L3, Hyper-Threading enabled, Turbo Boost enabled, Power-savings enabled |
| Intel Core i7-3820 (Sandy Bridge-E) 3.6 GHz (36 * 100 MHz), LGA 2011, 10 MB Shared L3, Hyper-Threading enabled, Turbo Boost enabled, Power-savings enabled | |
| Intel Core i7-3960X (Sandy Bridge-E) 3.3 GHz (33 * 100 MHz), LGA 2011, 15 MB Shared L3, Hyper-Threading enabled, Turbo Boost enabled, Power-savings enabled | |
| Intel Core i7-990X (Gulftown) 3.43 GHz (26 * 133 MHz), LGA 1366, 12 MB Shared L3, Hyper-Threading enabled, Turbo Boost enabled, Power-savings enabled | |
| AMD FX-8150 (Zambezi) 3.6 GHz (18 * 200 MHz), Socket AM3+, 8 MB Shared L3, Turbo Core enabled, Power-savings enabled | |
| AMD Phenom II X4 980 BE (Deneb) 3.7 GHz (18.5 * 200 MHz), Socket AM3, 6 MB Shared L3, Power-savings enabled | |
| AMD Phenom II X6 1100T (Thuban) 3.3 GHz (16.5 * 200 MHz), Socket AM3, 6 MB Shared L3, Turbo Core enabled, Power-savings enabled | |
| Intel Core i7-2600K (Sandy Bridge) 3.4 GHz (34 * 100 MHz), LGA 1155, 8 MB Shared L3, Hyper-Threading enabled, Turbo Boost enabled, Power-savings enabled | |
| Intel Core i5-2500K (Sandy Bridge) 3.3 GHz (33 * 100 MHz), LGA 1155, 6 MB Shared L3, Turbo Boost enabled, Power-savings enabled | |
| Intel Core i7-920 (Bloomfield) 2.66 GHz (20 * 133 MHz), LGA 1366, 8 MB Shared L3, Hyper-Threading enabled, Turbo Boost enabled, Power-savings enabled | |
| Schede madre | Intel DX79SI (LGA 2011) Intel X79 Express Chipset, BIOS SI.0280B |
| Asus Rampage IV Extreme (LGA 2011) Intel X79 Express Chipset, BIOS 0067 | |
| Asus Crosshair V Formula (Socket AM3+) AMD 990FX/SB950 Chipset, BIOS 0813 | |
| Asus Rampage III Formula (LGA 1366) Intel X58 Express, BIOS 0505 | |
| Asus Maximus IV Extreme (LGA 1155) Intel P67 Express, BIOS 0901 | |
| Memoria | Crucial 32 GB (4 x 8 GB) DDR3-1333, MT16JTF1G64AZ-1G4D1 @ DDR3-1600 at 1.65 V on Socket AM3+ and LGA 2011, DDR-1333 at 1.65 V on LGA 1155 |
| Crucial 24 GB (3 x 8 GB) DDR3-1333, MT16JTF1G64AZ-1G4D1 @ DDR3-1066 at 1.65 V on LGA 1366 | |
| Disco rigido | Intel SSD 510 250 GB, SATA 6 Gb/s |
| Grafica | Nvidia GeForce GTX 580 1.5 GB |
| Alimentatore | Cooler Master UCP-1000 W |
| Sistema operativo e driver | |
| Sistema operativo | Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit |
| DirectX
| DirectX 11 |
| Driver video | Nvidia GeForce Release 280.26 Nvidia GeForce Release 285.62 for all SLI testing |
| Benchmark giochi 3D e impostazioni | |
|---|---|
| Benchmark | Dettagli |
| Crysis 2
| Game Settings: Ultra Quality Settings, Anti-Aliasing: Disabled, V-sync: Disabled, High-Quality Textures: Enabled, DirectX 9 and DirectX 11, 1680x1050, 1920x1200, 2560x1600, Demo: Central Park |
| DiRT 3
| Game Settings: Ultra Quality Settings, Anti-Aliasing: Disabled and 8x AA, Anisotropic Filtering: Disabled, Sync Every Frame: No, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 2560x1600, Demo: Built-in Game Demo |
| World of Warcraft: Cataclysm
| Game Settings: Ultra Quality Settings, Anti-Aliasing: 1x AA and 8x AA, Anisotropic Filtering: 16x, Vertical Sync: Disabled, 1680x1050, 1920x1080, 2560x1600, Demo: Crushblow to The Krazzworks, DirectX 11 |
| Benchmark audio e impostazioni | |
| Benchmark | Dettagli |
| iTunes | Version: 10.4.10, 64-bit Audio CD ("Terminator II" SE), 53 min., Convert to AAC audio format |
| Lame MP3 | Version 3.98.3 Audio CD "Terminator II SE", 53 min, convert WAV to MP3 audio format, Command: -b 160 --nores (160 Kb/s) |
| Benchmark video e impostazioni | |
| Benchmark | Dettagli |
| HandBrake CLI | Version: 0.95 Video: Big Buck Bunny (720x480, 23.972 frames) 5 Minutes, Audio: Dolby Digital, 48 000 Hz, Six-Channel, English, to Video: AVC Audio: AC3 Audio2: AAC (High Profile) |
| MainConcept Reference v2.2
| Version: 2.2.0.5440 MPEG-2 to H.264, MainConcept H.264/AVC Codec, 28 sec HDTV 1920x1080 (MPEG-2),Audio: MPEG-2 (44.1 kHz, 2 Channel, 16-Bit, 224 Kb/s), Codec: H.264 Pro, Mode: PAL 50i (25 FPS), Profile: H.264 BD HDMV |
| x264 Software Library | AMD-Supplied AVX- and XOP-Optimized builds, TechARP's x264 HD Benchmark 4.0, Modified to accommodate new versions of x264 and CPU-Z 1.58 |
| Benchmark applicazioni e impostazioni | |
| Benchmark | Dettagli |
| WinRAR | Version 4.01 RAR, Syntax "winrar a -r -m3", Benchmark: 2010-THG-Workload |
| WinZip 14 | Version 14.0 Pro (8652) WinZip Commandline Version 3, ZIPX, Syntax "-a -ez -p -r", Benchmark: 2010-THG-Workload |
| 7-Zip
| Version 9.20 (x64) LZMA2, Syntax "a -t7z -r -m0=LZMA2 -mx=5", Benchmark: 2010-THG-Workload |
| Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5
| Paladin Sequence to H.264 Blu-ray Output 1920x1080, Maximum Quality, Mercury Playback Engine: Hardware Mode |
| Adobe After Effects CS 5.5
| Create Video which includes 3 Streams Frames: 210, Render Multiple Frames Simultaneously: on |
| Blender | Version: 2.59 Syntax blender -b thg.blend -f 1, Resolution: 1920x1080, Anti-Aliasing: 8x, Render: THG.blend frame 1 |
| Adobe Photoshop CS 5.1 (64-Bit) | Version: 11 Filtering a 16 MB TIF (15 000x7266), Filters:, Radial Blur (Amount: 10, Method: zoom, Quality: good) Shape Blur (Radius: 46 px; custom shape: Trademark sysmbol) Median (Radius: 1px) Polar Coordinates (Rectangular to Polar) |
| ABBYY FineReader | Version: 10 Professional Build (10.0.102.82) Read PDF save to Doc, Source: Political Economy (J. Broadhurst 1842) 111 Pages |
| 3ds Max 2012
| Render Space Flyby, 1440x1080, from Y: RAM Drive |
| Adobe Acrobat X Professional
| PDF Document Creation (Print) from Microsoft PowerPoint 2010 |
| SolidWorks 2010
| PhotoView 360, 01-Lighter Explode.SLDASM Benchmark File, 1920x1080 Render, 1.44 Million Polygons, 256 AA Samples |
| Visual Studio 2010
| Miranda IM Compile, Scripted |
| Benchmark sintetici e impostazioni | |
| Benchmark | Dettagli |
| PCMark 7 | Version: 1.0.4 |
| 3DMark 11
| Version 1.0.2 |
| SiSoftware Sandra 2011 | Version: 17.80 Processor Arithmetic, Multimedia, Cryptography, Memory Bandwidth, .NET Arithmetic, .NET Multimedia |