Offering slightly better CPU performance, lower power consumption and a better that “TICK” GPU improvement it would have saved significant time and verbiage to just label the Intel Core i7-3700K Ivy Bridge as a faster and more efficient iteration of th...

Review AMD Trinity and FX Desktop Processors Klaus Hinum, Till Schönborn ( translated by Martina Osztovits), 05/07/2013 Windows Ivy Bridge Gaming Desktop roundup. Notebookcheck leaves the beaten track: We compare current PC process...

The advantage of Hyper-Threading makes the Intel Core i7-3770K the most powerful processor of the Ivy Bridge series. With its larger cache and Hyper-Threading, it was able to win this comparison against its smaller brother. It also ran cooler than our ...

Our measurements show that under heavy load, the maximum power of Ivy Bridge processors is up to 40% lower compared with Sandy Bridge. Reducing the load reduces the difference between the platforms down to the minimum of 8% in the idle mode. At that, ...

When Intel launched Sandy Bridge in January 2011, it received a very favourable welcome but what was a ‘Tock’, which is to say a new architecture, was in fact also a sort of ‘Tick’, ie a new engraving process. The 32nm engraving launched a year earlier...

I told you up front that the story on Ivy Bridge was relatively straightforward. Now that we've conducted enough analysis to bring down a healthy adult bison in its prime, let's boil things down to a simple scatter plot showing price versus overall perfo...

I think that the Intel Core i7-3770 has a lot of merit. First off, it is less expensive than the K variant and I do think that it offers enough performance for the vast majority of users. $35 these days is enough to upgrade from a 64GB to 128GB SSD or to ...

We do CPU-reviews quite rarely, which makes them that more interesting. It's nice to every now and then check what sort of performance and features the latest platforms pack, and this time it was time to check out what's new on Intel's lineup. While t...

Intel’s delay of Ivy Bridge did stir some debate but it made business sense seeing Sandy Bridge rules the roost over their rival AMD’s Bulldozer platform. Most of the time we tend to look at new introductions with hype and look forward to major perform...

When it comes to productivity, it’s clear that Intel’s processors are the best choice. While some argue it’s not the best bang for buck, just consider the performance-upgrade time frame. Users who have purchased one of the the last two Intel architectu...

Ivy Bridge is finally here, and if its performance improvements over Sandy Bridge are underwhelming, remember that Sandy Bridge set a very high bar. Without Sandy Bridge to compare it to, we'd be lauding Ivy Bridge performance and overclocking to the ...

Intel is in the enviable position of having the enthusiast CPU market all to itself right now. AMD’s competition is increasingly focused on the fusion of GPU and CPU, but this has come at the cost of raw CPU performance. For those who use a dedicated g...

The 7 series chipset, launched on April 8 set the ball rolling for the launch of the Ivy Bridge, the die shrink to Sandy Bridge. Finally, after a bit of delay, we get a look at the highly anticipated third generation Core processor from Intel. If you ...

The much-anticipated Ivy Bridge release is finally here and we're bringing you a full review of Intel's brand new Core i7-3700K 3.5 GHz CPU along with Sandy Bridge Core i7-2600K comparisons, performance and benchmark analysis, plus overclocking info. Find...

At the point we are in the CPU wars Intel could very well just sit back and take a break. However we are not seeing this as they have really done some work on the Core i7 3770K. The new instruction set which combines some improved and new instructions alo...

Intel goes 22nm with ‘Ivy Bridge’ 3rd-generation Core processorsSpring time has arrived, and that can only mean one thing: Ivy Bridge is here! Okay, so it also means fighting the temptation to turn on the air conditioning for even slightly elevated tem...

Time passes though and it is time for another 'tick' in that tick-tock' model from Intel. We've been hearing about it for a while now, you guys and girls have learned to know it as the Ivy Bridge series of processors. Let me put it very simply, you...

s It certainly took longer than expected – Intel has admitted to manufacturing delays, which is why we’re talking about the i7 3770K and Ivy Bridge now instead of two months or so ago. Those problems seem to have been sorted out completely though, as I...

The new Core i7-3770K is a no-brainer if you were considering buying the Core i7-2600K; it costs the same and is faster.It is, however, very important to understand that this processor is targeted to users who will really benefit from additional proces...

As we've mentioned many times in this piece, Ivy Bridge does not feature a brand-new microarchitecture designed to obliterate the previous generation. Rather, Ivy Bridge, and the 3rd Generation Core processor family based on the microarchitecture, is an e...

and FVSo we went into this knowing this would just be an improvement on what we had already seen with Sandy Bridge. I was actually surprised at the improvements we saw on the CPU side of things, mostly due to the improvements in Turbo Boost. On the GP...

After spending some time with Ivy Bridge we quickly discovered that Intel has raised the bar across the board for performance. Not bad considering that Ivy Bridge does not feature a brand-new microarchitecture and is basically a die shrink of Sandy Br...

Maybe we've got complacent. Maybe we've got greedy. Or maybe Intel knocked the Sandy Bridge range out of the park and it's a tough act to follow. However you look at it, the Intel Core i7-3770K is most definitely the Sophomore Slump. Don't get us wrong...

Ivy Bridge is a mixed bag for overclockers. It is a more efficient process than Sandy Bridge, gaining anywhere from two to seven percent across the benchmark tests. If you manipulate videos with programs that can use QuickSync there is no question, Ivy ...

Chin up CPU fans, Intel has launched its latest batch of processors out into the world today. On this fine anniversary of Shakespeare's birthday an infinite number of monkeys has been hard at work producing a replacement for the entire Core i7 and Core i5...

The new flagship CPU of Intel's mainstream line, the Core i7-3770K blends speed and power usage in one impressive package....

While Ivy Bridge isn't blowing away the performance of Sandy Bridge, Intel continues to hit on all cylinders delivering a fantastic processor with a 10-15% performance advantage over the previous generation and a clear power consumption edge as well.  The...

When running these tests plus various other tests, the average temperature of the Intel Core i7 3770K with a stock Intel heatsink fan and Arctic Silver 7 thermal-paste was 58°C. The Intel Core i7 3960X with its stock water-cooling setup was at 53°C ov...

Interestingly, Intel's own literature suggests the biggest beneficiaries of its 22nm process node will be server and smartphone processors. What Intel is saying is that its 22nm processors will bring lower power consumption and enable it to finally p...

After having benchmarked the 3770K and compared it against its brothers and sisters from the Sandy Bridge family of processors it is fair to say that Ivy Bridge is without a doubt faster and that Ivy Bridge-E will once again take that performance level...

It was a foregone conclusion that Ivy Bridge would be faster as compared to Sandy Bridge processors. The difference is as was expected, hovering between 10-15% depending on the application being run. The processor over-clocks just as well as previous proc...

No doubt, the new Ivy Bridge is an evolutionary step forward. Although no one promised any significant performance differences from the predecessors, Intel engineers managed to ensure a pretty significant, almost 10% performance gain compared with the...

In terms of performance, the new HD 4000 graphics chip is a more substantial update than the CPU portion of Ivy Bridge, delivering 50~70% higher frame rates in our gaming benchmarks. Unfortunately needs to be an order of magnitude better to really mak...

Those hoping that Ivy Bridge performance would prove to be leaps and bounds ahead of Sandy Bridge will be sorely disappointed with today’s release. That said, if you were expecting anything more than a 10–15% performance increase you skipped over the f...