Intel Ivy Bridge 3770K and Z77 Chipset Reviewed

Benchmarks

Benchmarks Setup:
Intel Core i7 3770K
Gigabyte Z77X-UD3H
4GB Kingston 2400MHz DDR3 running at 1600MHz C9 and 2400MHz
2x Patriot Pyro SE 240GB 
Maingear Epic 180 Water Cooling
AMD Radeon HD 7970
Maingear Shift Case
Thermaltake ToughPower 1475w Gold PSU

Intel Core i7 3820
Intel X79 DX79SI
16GB of Kingston 1600MHz DDR3 C9
1 Patriot Pyro SE 120GB
Coolermaster 1100W UCP
NVIDIA GTX 680

Intel Core i7 3960X
Gigabyte X79-UD7
16GB of Kingston 2133 running at 1600MHz C9
1 Patriot Pyro SE 120GB
Coolermaster 1100W UCP
NVIDIA GTX 680
Velociraptor 1TB
Velociraptor 600GB

AIDA64



In AIDA64, we ran all five of their CPU benchmarks and compared the three main Intel CPUs that we have tested in the past. Unfortunately, we did not have access to our original Sandy Bridge processors, so we made due by including the 3820 and 3960X in our benchmarks against the 3770K. As you can see in our benchmarks above, in the majority of our benchmarks the 3770K trades punches with the 3820, beating it in the Zlib, Hash and Queen benchmarks while losing in the AES and PhotoWorxx benchmarks, which tend to be more memory bandwidth intensive.

We also tested the AIDA64 FPU benchmarks to further evaluate the 3770K's FPU worthiness.




Here we can definitely see the improvements over the Sandy Bridge Core i7 3820, but realistically still not nearly as fast as the Core i7 3960X except for in the VP8 benchmark which indicates that Intel has significantly improved the video compression capabilities of the Ivy Bridge processors as the VP8 benchmark uses Google's VP8 code for video compression.