Average of 5-10% boost in performance give or take.
No, but it would play slightly older games on said settings just fine.Do you guys think that the IG upgrade will be enough to run most current gen games at medium settings -- something like Skyrim, upcoming GTA V, etc? Im moving from a console and curious on whether I could try to squeak by on Ivys IG until I save enough to buy a decent discrete graphics card.
I'm pretty sure it is playable but you won't enjoy it that's for sure.Do you guys think that the IG upgrade will be enough to run most current gen games at medium settings -- something like Skyrim, upcoming GTA V, etc? Im moving from a console and curious on whether I could try to squeak by on Ivys IG until I save enough to buy a decent discrete graphics card.
I stand by what I said earlier. 5% higher IPC, 5% higher clock potential. So 10%.
The only real thing that stands out for Ivy Bridge is native support for PCIe 3.0. As we've seen, cards like the Radeon HD 7970 are starting to saturate PCIe 2.0 X8.
lol and pci e 2.0 16x has double the bandwith and it can barely max 8x
pcie 3.0 is nothing but marketing since the card wont even come close to maxing 2.0 8x and nevermind coming close to 16x
ohh nooo everyone that bought a x79 setup run and buy a new ivy bridge cpu because your 2.0 spec board and chips wont push the new 7970 cards LOL
Ultimately what is clear is that 8GB/sec of bandwidth, either in the form of PCIe 2 x16 or PCIe 3 x8, will be necessary to completely feed the 7970. 16GB/sec (PCIe 3 x16) appears to be overkill for a single card at this time, and 4GB/sec or 2GB/sec will bottleneck the 7970 depending on the game. The good news is that even at 2GB/sec the bottlenecking is rather limited, and based on our selection of benchmarks it looks like a handful of games will be bottlenecked. Still, theres a good argument here that 7970CF owners are going to want a PCIe 3 system to avoid bottlenecking their cards in fact this may be the greatest benefit of PCIe 3 right now, as it should provide enough bandwidth to make an x8/x8 configuration every bit as fast as an x16/x16 configuration, allowing for maximum GPU performance with Intels mainstream CPUs.
do you honeslty think some one with a x79 setup is going to downgrade there 6 core sandy E to take advantage of an ivy with pcie 3.0 support?
When did X79 not support PCIe 3.0?
I stand by what I said earlier. 5% higher IPC, 5% higher clock potential. So 10%.
The only real thing that stands out for Ivy Bridge is native support for PCIe 3.0. As we've seen, cards like the Radeon HD 7970 are starting to saturate PCIe 2.0 X8.
PCIe 3.0 is a gimmick. GPUs aren't even close to maxing out PCIe 2.0.
read what I said again,you are saying pcie 2.0 has only 8x when you can run it at 16x and its more than enough to run 2 7970s at full speed
1 card 16x 2.0 and the other card 16x 2.0 with another 8 lanes doing nothing on a x79 board with a sandy E cpu
do you honeslty think some one with a x79 setup is going to downgrade there 6 core sandy E to take advantage of an ivy with pcie 3.0 support?
and your 8x to 16x scores are less then 1fps in most games and can easily be throw away do to + or - results from running the benchmarks at different times.
dont forget driver tweaks,whats more crazzy is how well 4x runs,a simple 2-3mhz bclk over clock would get rid of that bottle neck even at 4x
so tech we can run 3 7970s on an x79 setup
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and 4 lanes left for usb and sata etc.
Isn't 5% higher clock potential a little conservative, going from 32nm to 22nm plus flipflop transistors or whatever they are called?
Nope. The Sandy Bridge architecture won't go much higher in terms of clocks, the reason being the short pipeline.
]Are you saying IVB won't hit 6 ghz on a golden chip .[/B] What is the pipes on SB . I haven't every heard intel say I have read 14 . I am hoping and its likely not going to happen I was hoping for Haswell to have pipes 18 I believe thats what P4C had.