Intel Sandy Bridge E Debuts Core I7 3960X Reviewed Application Performance

Using our custom WinRAR test we found that the Core i7-3960X took just 92 seconds to compress a 700MB file, while multiple smaller files totaling 400MB’s took 20 seconds. Here the advantage against the i7-2600K was small but considerably larger versus the AMD FX-8150. The Core i7-3960X topped the charts again when testing with Adobe Photoshop CS5. The test took 15.8 seconds making the Core i7-3960X roughly 20% faster than the Core i7-2600K and 26% faster than the Core i7-965 Extreme Edition. The Fritz Chess 13 in-game benchmark can utilize all 12 threads and as a result the Core i7-3960X is unbelievably fast, delivering 19131 kilo nodes per second. This made it 45% faster than the Core i7-2600K and 60% faster than the Core i7-965 Extreme Edition.