Intel Sandy Bridge-E, analysis of the performance of the Core i7 3960X (Part 2)

In this second part we will analyze in detail the performance of the Intel i7-3960X with Sandy Bridge-E architecture. Several tests will be run with various software, specific tests on the memory, CPU frequency, 3D and consumption scaling and overclocking. Very interesting are the comparison tests the Intel i7-980X.

Euler 3D

It is a software that can handle real numbers, complex numbers, intervals, matrices and arrays. Track 2D/3D diagrams and includes a modern programming language. All versions of Euler are freeware with GNU. EULER is very similar to Matlab, but the author points out that this is not a clone. Euler 3D is used for analysis of fluid dynamics, with a freely available integrated benchmarking mode that uses all available cores and threads of the processor.

The generated score is absolute reference point for a desktop CPU. The distance from the other CPU is   nothing short of embarrassing. If the Intel i7-980X CPU could still maintain a certain detachment from the Sandy Bridge, with this new Intel CPU has increased considerably this posting going strengthen it significantly.

In this test, we note as the new Sandy Bridge-E architecture is able to fairly distance the old Gulftown architecture on socket 1366.