14 DAY TRIAL // After yesterday we reported about the first leaked Ivy Bridge benchmarks, it now time to take a look at a different set of results also staring an engineering sample of Intel's upcoming 22nm LGA 1155 processors.
What's interesting about these new results is that the chip used was clocked at 2.1GHz, 300MHz faster than all the previous engineering sample Ivy Bridge CPUs that were spotted around in the last month.
This seems to suggest that Intel is making quick progress with the development of Ivy Bridge and that the Santa Clara chip giant may soon start mass production of these CPUs.
Other than the increased operating clock, the rest of the processor specs closely resemble those of the previous EE samples spotted, as the chip features dual computing cores with HyperThreading support, 256KB L2 cache per core and a 4MB Level 3 cache.
The user who got a hold of this CPU tested it in both the Super Pi 1M and the wPrime 32M benchmarks, where the processor finished the tests in 16.209 and 21.436 seconds, respectively.
Ivy Bridge is the code name used for the 22nm die shrink of the current Sandy Bridge architecture and features basically the same design, but with a few minor tweaks and improvements.
This includes a new on-die GPU that will come with full DirectX 11 support as well as with 30% more EUs than Sandy Bridge, in order to offer improved performance.
In addition, the processor cores have also received some minor tweaks as their AVX performance was slightly increased and Intel has updated the integrated PCI Express controller to the 3.0 standard.
The first Ivy Bridge processors were expected to ship in Q1 of 2012, but Intel has not so long ago confirmed that these won't actually reach retail until March or April of 2012. (via Expreview)
