Intel Sandy Bridge-E's debut, analysis of the architecture and performance of the Core i7 3690X (Part 1)

Today, November 14, we see the debut of the new Intel Sandy Bridge-E based on the new Socket LGA 2011, they replace the previous LGA 1366. The architecture of these CPUs reflects what we saw about a year ago for the CPU LGA 1155, which marked an important milestone in the evolution of processors. Sandy Bridge LGA 1155, although belonging to the mid-range Intel platforms, has in effect meant the disappearance of the LGA 1156 CPU but also of the LGA 1366, going to compete with high-end CPU such as hexa-core i7 980X and 990X for because of excellent performance, both default and overclocked.

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Classic tools also dedicated to the compression and decompression of files in his stable version.

In this benchmark run with the well-known program a pretty obvious thing is noted. The scalability of the new 6core cpu based on new Sandy Bridge-E architecture did not allow a perfect performance scaling by the change from the 4 cores of 2600K to 6 cores.  Although the margin of increase from 2600K i7 CPU Intel is substantial. It is still worth noting that the CPU manufactured by AMD and current range can be very close when they are at the default frequency, while the gap increases when you compare them clock to clock to 4 GHz.