14 DAY TRIAL // Intel's primary consumer set of central processing units will reach its fourth generation in June, but the ultra high-end set is one generation behind, which means that Ivy Bridge-E will be to Haswell what Sandy Bridge E was to the first generation of Core-series CPUs.
The best of the Ivy Bridge-E units will be called Core i7-4960X and will replace the Core i7-3970X.
PC enthusiast "Toppc," via Coolaler.com, has posted some benchmark results scored by the CPUs on an MSI X79A-GD45 Plus motherboard with V17.1 BIOS.
In addition to 3DMark Vantage (CPU score), and 3DMark 06 (CPU score), the CineBench 11.5, SuperPi mod 1.6, CPU Mark '99, and WPrime 1.63 suites were run.
We've included the test screenshots in the image gallery below. Overall, Ivy Bridge-E is 10% better than Sandy Bridge-E, not a lot, but enough to justify the generation move, provided prices carry over.
