Chris, maybe you could do a review on that Xeon that's supposedly priced like an i5 but runs like an i7 (due to HTT). It would be interesting to know info like peformance and its caveats. At least I'm interested in it as a cheaper option.
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Today marks the first time I’ve ever seen a single-processor system break under the one-minute threshold in our ABBYY FineReader 10 test. This application utilizes as many cores as you throw at it, allowing the Xeon E5-2687W to wrap up while AMD’s “eight-core” FX-8150 is still only halfway done.
Is that so eh? Maybe someone should suggest that they try using GPGPU if no one hasn't yet. For all I know, there is already GPGPU support or maybe at least they've already started. This could be a fine example of an application that could fully take advantage of GPGPU. I'm imagining that it works in a way that's similar to how Battlefield 3 applies its highest level of Ambient Occlusion and AMD's proposed method for facial recognition (chopping up an image into multiple blocks and analyzing them individually).
The Xeon finishes in first place, confirming that WinZip is now able to completely utilize the resources available to it. Intel’s new Core i7-3970X places second, followed by its predecessor, the -3960X.
For some reason, I doubt that, since the difference between the Xeon and the i7-3970X is only 2 sec. Though, the latter does have a higher speed, and I'm not sure if you (Chris) actually saw it in Task Manager or something that it was utilizing all the cores. If ever, maybe the amount of L3 cache played a part in this mild difference? Vishera's mild win over the Phenom II X6 seems indicative of WinZip having support for 8 threads, though the former also has more L3 cache I think, albeit slower (I think).
WinRAR's behavior seems similar, whatever the cause is, though 7-Zip's results makes me feel that it does take advantage of all the cores.
(On a side note, there's a typo on the same page. It says "i7-3570K" at the bottom, which I think should be "i5."
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I forgot who mentioned this on the forums (sorry about that whoever you are), but he/she shared stuff showing how Metro2033 with PhysX running on the CPU is highly-threaded (maybe even up to 8 cores or more, I forgot). It would've been interesting to see here.
(On Power Consumption and Efficiency page, the last sentence has the FX-8350 mistyped as "3850.")