Announcement of LGA 2011 will take place in the next month, today appeared the results of a comparison of six-core processor Core i7-3960X (3.3 GHz) and Core i7-990X (3.46 GHz) Extreme Edition. Both support the technology Hyper-Threading, the first include 15 MB cache and support quad-channel memory, the second - only 12 MB cache and support for tri-channel memory.
This time, the results are in relative terms :
- Cinebench 11.5 -> 13%;
- POV Ray 3.7 -> 12%;
- ProShow Gold 4.5 -> 15%;
- 3DMark 11 Physics -> 36%.
In some synthetic tests AVX extensions support allows the processor Core i7-3960X to surpass its predecessor by 92%, and the memory bandwidth is 111% higher. The whole question now is whether the LGA 2011 platform is better than the older processors LGA 1155, and by how much.