Second-Generation Ultrabooks: Faster And Cheaper With Ivy Bridge

[martel80]

The Winrar test probably causes a lot of cache misses and CPU waiting for RAM, thus the low utilization.

 

[mikenygmail]

"6. Benchmark Results: Battlefield 3," and "8. Integrated Graphics" prove #11 wrong: "Intel: On Top In This Space, For Now"

"7. Benchmark Results: Low-Resolution 3D Performance" - Correct.

Intel still can't compete with AMD's APU's.
$750-$800 is too much to ask for a laptop that can't even offer reasonable 3D gaming performance.

 

[Wisecracker]

http://blogs.amd.com/fusion/2012/04/16/adobe-and-amd-bring-opencl-powered-real-time-editing-and-effects-to-adobe-premiere-pro-cs6/

From Toms: Photoshop CS6 using APU acceleration

It's a fairly weak Llano laptop -- no promises a 17w Trinity Thin would best it, but you have the like the chances.

 

[CaedenV]

... I don't get all the gaming complaints. If you had the money for one of these ultrabooks (~800+) and wanted to game, then why on earth would you not spend that money on a real notebook or laptop that has a dedicated GPU?
Ultrabooks are for business and average home user workloads, which they do quite well. Complaining that they don't game is like complaining that smartphone cannot display flash content properly. Isnt it cool enough that the phone can display a web page fairly accurately? and be able to navegate a page with minimal frustration? Same with these ultrabooks; They are great tools for what they are designed to be, but it is still a specific use tool, and it will be a few generations before we see one that can be a real desktop replacement. Just as it was several years between laptops to evolve from briefcase computers, down to what is available now that literally is a desktop replacement for most people.

 

[tomfreak]

[citation][nom]caedenv[/nom]... I don't get all the gaming complaints. If you had the money for one of these ultrabooks (~800+) and wanted to game, then why on earth would you not spend that money on a real notebook or laptop that has a dedicated GPU?Ultrabooks are for business and average home user workloads, which they do quite well. Complaining that they don't game is like complaining that smartphone cannot display flash content properly. Isnt it cool enough that the phone can display a web page fairly accurately? and be able to navegate a page with minimal frustration? Same with these ultrabooks; They are great tools for what they are designed to be, but it is still a specific use tool, and it will be a few generations before we see one that can be a real desktop replacement. Just as it was several years between laptops to evolve from briefcase computers, down to what is available now that literally is a desktop replacement for most people.[/citation]Why not u ask the dumb reviewer not putting the "right" game to bench. putting BF3 to bench on HD4000 is a waste of time. I ever many of them bench crysis on Zacate setup too. lol.

I am pretty sure a lot of old AAA title have no issue running on these platform, but we all need to know up to what year is the latest old title that these platform can run @ max full resolution. Too bad all the review doesnt do that, they will bench crysis 2, BF3 and so on. lol.

 

[Guest]

Correction:

In the Blu-Ray playback section, you said the SNB used less power. According the the last chart, IVB goes through less power.

 

[gondor]

Regarding the Sandy Bridge "oddity" in WinRAR results:

As power usage and CPU utilization diagrams on same page clearly indicate the process took longer to complete on the i5 chip (as expected). Power usage diagram also implies that i7 CPU was underutilized (running the process on only two cores + HT instead of all four + HT), hence its rather lame result.

Rerun the tests, recheck your data or rethink your graphs because as they are right now, they don't make any sense 😉