Although scheduled to officially launch on September 11th, the guys from Coolaler.com managed to get their hands on the new Core i7-4960X Ivy Bridge-E and compare it to previous Core i7-3970X flagship in some benchmarks.

Although it is the engineering sample that might not end up to be the same as the retail ones, the comparison gives a much clearer picture on what to expect from the new Ivy Bridge-E CPU. We previously had a chance to the Core i7-4930K compared to Core i7-3930K which only brought around five percent improvement in performance and it looks like the we will see the same thing with flagship Core i7-4960X.

Bear in mind that both CPUs were tested at 4.5GHz and on Asus' Rampage IV Formula X79-based motherboard with 16GB of DDR3-3000MHz memory in quad-channel setup. In case you missed it earlier, the Core i7-4960X is Intel's upcoming flagship Ivy Bridge-E CPU built on 22nm tri-gate manufacturing process. It is a six-core part with hyper-threading, works at 3.6GHz base and 4.0GHz Turbo clock, has 15MB of L3 cache and 130W TDP. The rumored price should easily touch US $1000.

In Cinebench R11.5, the older flagship, Core i7-3970X, managed to score 13.22 points while the new Core i7-4960X reached 13.40 points. The same performance improvement translates to about all other benchmarks including 3DMark Vantage, 11 and FireStrike benchmarks, WPrime 1024M, x264 FHD benchmark and Fritz Chess benchmark. The Core i7-4960X ends up faster than the previous flagship but only slightly while main improvements will be in its 22nm manufacturing process as it should have much better overclocking potential and lower power consumption.

In any case, we'll know for sure when it officially launches on September 11th, alongside the Core i7-4820K and the Core i7-4930K Ivy Bridge-E CPUs.





Source: Coolaler.com, via Wccftech.com.