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Sandy Bridge-E: Core i7-3960X Is Fast, But Is It Any More Efficient?

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Ironically, when it comes to performance, Intel’s Core i7-3960X is the real Bulldozer. Since its power consumption levels are lower than the Gulftown-based Core i7, it should also deliver amazing performance per watt as well. Is that really the case?

Benchmark Results: Matlab

With the exception of the floating point test with irregular memory access, Sandy Bridge-E clearly is fastest in Matlab, although not as strong as expected compared to the quad-core Sandy Bridge-based LGA 1155 processors.