Unofficial Benchmarks Show Intel Core i7-4960X Ivy Bridge-E Performing 10% Faster Than i7-3970X

[xxsk8er101xx]

I'm wondering if the Core i7-4970X is a 8-core processor. It's been rumored that Intel will introduce one for the single CPU workstation market.
Keep in mind though that you can pop in the Ivy Bridge into your existing 2011 motherboards. I wonder if Intel will keep the same socket for Haswell? Making a purchase of the 2011 motherboards a nice long term investment.

 

[jdwii]

The difference is this is supposed to be a Tock not a tick. This is nonsence even Amd is moving faster

 

[none12345]

Man the hardware scene is just so boring these days. 10% improvements are not exciting, no reason to upgrade. And they wonder why sales are slumping, its because there is no reason to upgrade.
I miss the days of performance doubling every 1-2 years. Oh well maybe next generation will give me a reason to upgrade(ive been saying that the last 3 generations tho). If you've bought any cpu made in the last 4 years there is no reason to upgrade heh.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Wonder what TDP it is?
If it's a 130W part then that's a significant increase over the 150W 3970X

 

[InvalidError]

Man the hardware scene is just so boring these days. 10% improvements are not exciting, no reason to upgrade. And they wonder why sales are slumping, its because there is no reason to upgrade.

Even if the 40-60%/year performance improvements had continued, most people today would likely still not bother to upgrade anywhere near as often as they used to due to lack of software that can actually put that extra processing power to good use.

Most computers out there today will rarely be used for anything much more intensive than video playback and today's low-end chips can easily handle multiple simultaneous 1080p streams even without GPU acceleration.

Even if AMD and Intel released 5X faster chips tomorrow, most people would not bother upgrading due to lack of mainstream software that can make any meaningful use of that: today's low-end chips are already overkill for most of what people do on a regular basis so for most people, it does not really matter much how much better today's chip might be until software catches up in a justifiable way.

 

[Aleppi]

i care more about the chipsets. Haswell was meh but Z87 is awesome compared to Z77 with all those sata3 ports