More Tests

 

Super Pi

Super Pis is a single-threaded benchmark which can show the differences in IPC between CPU platforms.  Here is the tests, and we choose 1 million digits.

First up is Super Pi on the Core i7-3770K at 4.2GHz.  There are two versions we are testing – v1.8 and v1.9.  We used v1.8 for benching the i7-920 also at 4.2GHz and will also compare its results.

Now here are Haswell results at the same settings:

Haswell is faster than Ivy which is faster by a second than Bloomfield. And this is a single-threaded application. Please continue on to Fritz Chess Bench.

 

Fritz Chess Bench

Fritz Chess Benchmark is found within the game’s program files and basically it crunches numbers to test your processor’s speed. Deep Fritz takes advantage of massive calculations and multi-threaded performance to work any CPU fully. It loads all threads 100% and will drive your CPU temperatures way up.  We are using version 12 which is the same version we used for testing Core i7-920.

First the Core i7-3770K at 4.2GHz:

 Now we  run the Fritz benchmark on Haswell’s i7-4770K at 4.2GHz.  Besides showing relative speed when compared to a P3 1.0GHz CPU, it also shows the nodes completed. The faster your CPU, the more nodes completed.

Here in this multi-threaded benchmark, Haswell at 4.2GHz is faster clock-for-clock than Ivy Bridge and faster than Bloomfield’s i7-920 at the same clocks.

 

CustomPC Benchmark

CustomPC benchmark use widely available open-source applications to carry out the tasks that most of us perform on a regular basis. There are three tests, each of which measure different aspects of a PC’s performance. These tests themselves are not synthetic benchmarks but instead they use real world image, video and multi-tasking tasks to test the performance of your computer.

The tests are:

• GIMP Image Editing
• H.264 Video Encoding
• Multi-tasking

First these tests are run on the Ivy overclocked to 4.2GHz.

As usual we test next with the Haswell Core i7-3770K also at 4.2GHz.

We are also able to compare our results with Bloomfield’s Core i7-920 as the benchmark is unchanged since we ran it.  Here are the results of Custom PC benchmarking expressed as a chart (lower is faster/better):

Haswell is much faster at video encoding just as Ivy is over Bloomfield.  The Z78 Haswell platform wins in all three benchmarks and overall.

CINEBENCH

CINEBENCH is based on MAXON’s professional 3D content creation suite, CINEMA 4D. This latest R15.0 version of CINEBENCH can test up to 64 processor threads accurately and automatically.  We are testing the older version first which is the same test we gave Bloomfield, and then testing with the newest version.

v11.5

First the i7-3770K Ivy Bridge at 4.2GHz with the GTX 680 at reference clocks

Next, the Haswell Core i7 at 4.2GHz with the reference GTX 680 and the same settings.

Haswell is faster.  In fact, Core i7-920 scored 54.23 fps and 7.20 pts!  Now we test with the latest benchmark

R15

First the i7-3770K Ivy Bridge at 4.2GHz with the GTX 680 at reference clocks

Next, the Haswell Core i7 at 4.2GHz with the reference GTX 680 and the same settings.

Here is the Graph which includes Bloomfield’s i7-920 for the older benchmark

Here is the newest Cinebench:Haswell is faster in both tests.

X264

We are using the latest version, V5.0 and also the older version v4.0 which we used when we originally compared Ivy Bridge to Bloomfield.  Basically this test encodes a HD video clip into a x264 video file. The first pass is very quick and the second one is much slower and much more demanding of a task as it does the actual encoding. This benchmark is heavily mult-threaded.

V4.0

First up is the Core i7-3770K at 4.2GHz with a GTX 680:

 

Average first pass for Ivy Bridge is 182.81 fps while the second pass is 46.84 fps with version 4.

 

And now the Core i7-4770K.Average first pass for Haswell is 191.98 fps while the second pass is 51.94 fps with version 4.

V5.0 

First up is the Core i7-3770k at 4.2GHzAverage first pass for Ivy Bridge is 77.31 fps while the second pass is 16.3 fps with version 5. 

And now the Core i7-4770K.

Average first pass for Haswell is 83.48 fps while the second pass is 18.53 fps.

As we can see, both passes are much quicker on Haswell. The newest architecture is favored in a heavily-multi-threaded task.

Here is Version 5.0

The next series of tests is going to focus on the SSD to see which platform is faster.

 

Crystal Disk Mark

CrystalDiskMark is a HDD benchmark utility for your hard drive that enables you to measure sequential and random read/write speeds. Here are some key features of “CrystalDiskMark”:

• Measure sequential reads/writes speed
• Measure random 512KB, 4KB, 4KB (Queue Depth=32) reads/writes speed

First up is the i7-3770k

Now the 4770K

The Haswell platform is again quicker.

HD Tune

HD Tune is a hard disk utility which has the following functions:

• Benchmark measures the performance of:
  • Transfer Rate
  • Access Time
  • CPU Usage
  • Burst Rate
  • Random Access test
  • Write benchmark
• Hard Disk information which includes partition information, supported features, firmware version, serial number, disk capacity, buffer size, transfer mode
• Hard Disk Health
  • S.M.A.R.T. Information (Self-Monitoring Analysis and Reporting Technology)
  • Power On Time
• Error scan
• Temperature display

The Ivy Bridge platform is up first.

Next the i7-4770K

This same benchmark was used on our i7-920 and its results are included in the chart.

Haswell platform is fastest.

 

AS SSD

AS SSD is especially designed for Solid State Drives (SSD). The tool contains synthetic and practice tests. The synthetic tests determine the sequential and random read and write performance of the SSD without use of the operating system caches. In Seq-test the program measures how long it takes to read and write a 1 GB file. In the 4K test, read and write performance for random 4K blocks are determined. The 4K-64-thrd test are similar to the 4K procedure except that the read and write operations on 64 threads are distributed as in the usual start of a program.

In the copying test, two large ISO file folders are created, programs with many small files, and a games folder with small and large files. These three folders are copied by the OS copy command with the cache turned on. The practice tests show performance with simultaneous read and write operations

AS SSD gives an overall “score” after it runs the benchmarks. These scores and comparisons are summed up in the performance summary charts.

First up, i7-3770k

Now the i7-4770K

606 score for Ivy Bridge and 670 score for Haswell.

Haswell’s plaform is faster.

 

ATTO

ATTO is a disk benchmark. The ATTO Disk Benchmark measures a storage system;s performance with various transfer sizes and test lengths for reads and writes. Options are available to customize the tests, including queue depth, overlapped I/O and even a comparison mode.

First up is i7-3770K.

 

Now 4770K:

Very similar results.

 

HD Tach

HD Tach is a low level hardware benchmark for random access read/write storage devices including SSDs and HDDs. HD Tach uses custom device drivers and low level Windows interfaces to determine the physical performance of the device.  It is no longer supported and needs to be run in compatibility mode for Windows 7.

Here is the Long Bench with Ivy.

Now we repeat the same test with Haswell with identical settings.

290.2 MB/s average read for Ivy Bridge platform and 312.5 MB/s for Haswell.  Haswell is again faster.

Folder copy

Here is a task that we all carry out and it shows the superiority of USB 3.0 over 2.0. Only Ivy Bridge and Haswell natively supports it for Intel platforms; not even Sandy Bridge. Ivy Bridge also brought PCIe 3.0 although it is available to Sandy Bridge owners through BIOS updates for suitable motherboards.

Using the Haswell platform, it took 1 minute and 10 seconds to copy the Crysis 2 10GB game folder to another location on the same SSD.  Ivy Bridge took two seconds longer, but it took 1 minute and 30 seconds for i7-920 to make the same copy on Bloomfield’s X58 platform at the same 4.2GHz CPU clocks.

Next, we move on to game-related benchmarks and games. Next up are the synthetics.

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