Intel Core SandyIntel Core Sandy is a processor. This product is part of the Core series and is available from Intel. The Intel Core Sandy has been tested via the Phoronix Test Suite in the configurations listed below.
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Global Resultsubuntu-3889-4109-19077 - Tests on PTS Desktop Live 2010.1, Intel Core i3-2120, Intel Sandy IGP, Dell 0F6X5P
deds - Tests on Debian 6.0.3, Intel Core i7-2600K, Intel Sandy IGP, ASUS MAXIMUS IV GENE-Z
333323 - Tests on Debian 6.0.3, Intel Core i7-2600K, Intel Sandy IGP, ASUS MAXIMUS IV GENE-Z
fauzi - Tests on PTS Desktop Live 2010.1, Intel Core i3-2100, Intel Sandy IGP, Foxconn H61MXV
anon-23337-31087-4896 - Tests on Debian 6.0.3, Intel Core i7-2600K, Intel Sandy IGP, ASUS Maximus IV GENE-Z
anon-7263-17413-11298 - Tests on Debian 6.0.3, Intel Core i7-2600K, Intel Sandy IGP, ASUS Maximus IV GENE-Z
anon-3152-29536-19139 - Tests on Debian 6.0.3, Intel Core i7-2600K, Intel Sandy IGP, ASUS Maximus IV GENE-Z
anon-4294-9034-10811 - Tests on Debian 6.0.3, Intel Core i7-2600K, Intel Sandy IGP, ASUS Maximus IV GENE-Z
anon-14454-15041-7572 - Tests on Debian 6.0.3, Intel Core i7-2600K, Intel Sandy IGP, ASUS Maximus IV GENE-Z
anon-7284-14260-31951 - Tests on Debian 6.0.3, Intel Core i7-2600K, Intel Sandy IGP, ASUS Maximus IV GENE-Z
5ghz - Tests on Debian 6.0.3, Intel Core i7-2600K, Intel Sandy IGP, ASUS Maximus IV GENE-Z
emaganda-sqlite-test - Tests on Ubuntu 10.10, Intel Xeon E31230, Matrox MGA G200eW WPCM450, Supermicro X9SCL
root-4401-11664-29919 - Tests on Ubuntu 10.10, Ubuntu 10.04, Intel Core i7-2600K, NVIDIA GF104, Intel DZ68BC, AMD Opteron 4274 HE, ASPEED ASPEED Family, MSI MS-91F7
read disk - Tests on PTS Desktop Live 2010.1, Intel Celeron G530, Intel Sandy IGP, Foxconn H67S
Phoronix InformationIntel Sandy Bridge Is Shinier On Ubuntu 12.04 LTS: For those curious about the performance changes for Intel Sandy Bridge hardware when moving from Ubuntu 11.10 to Ubuntu 12.04, here is a quick overview.
Ubuntu 12.04 vs. Windows 7: Intel Sandy/Ivy Bridge Loses On Linux: Here's a comparison of the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS versus Microsoft Windows 7 performance when it comes to using Intel Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors with integrated graphics. While the Sandy Bridge graphics performance was once faster when it came to OpenGL with the open-source Linux driver, that's no longer the case.
Intel Core i7 3770K Ivy Bridge Linux Performance: Intel is finally announcing the first Ivy Bridge processors this morning. I have been extensively testing out the Intel Core i7 3770K, the current high-end Ivy Bridge processor, for the past few weeks under Ubuntu Linux. I have been extremely pleased with the Intel Core i7 Ivy Bridge processor under Linux with its phenomenal performance, power efficiency, and new features.
Apple's LLVM 3.1 Clanging On Intel Sandy Bridge: After delivering benchmarks in March showing the performance gains of GCC 4.7 on Intel's Sandy Bridge processors, here's a look at how the latest LLVM/Clang 3.1 compiler from Apple is shaping up for these latest Intel CPUs.
Intel Sandy Bridge Shapes Up On GCC 4.7 Compiler: Back in January I wrote about how open-source compilers are quickly maturing for Intel Sandy Bridge CPUs and offering early support for Intel Ivy Bridge and Intel Haswell processors. Both GCC and LLVM have been quick to take advantage of the new instruction set extensions and other capabilities of these latest -- and very impressive -- Intel processors.
Intel Sandy Bridge RC6 Is Good To Go: It looks like the debacle concerning RC6 power-savings support for Intel Sandy Bridge hardware is finally behind us. Intel thinks everything is worked out and ready to be enabled upstream (again) with the next Linux 3.4 kernel cycle and Canonical has enabled RC6 by default in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
Intel RC6 Support On The Sandy Bridge Desktop: While RC6 support remains off-by-default as Intel developers are faced by RC6-related bugs affecting a small minority of Sandy Bridge users, this power-savings feature is not limited to only Intel mobile graphics. As discovered at Phoronix, RC6 can manage to boost the graphics performance beyond just extending your battery life.
Compilers Mature For Intel Sandy/Ivy Bridge, Prep For Haswell: The leading open-source code compilers -- namely the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and LLVM/Clang -- now have maturing support for Intel's Sandy Bridge microarchitecture with further optimizations for the forthcoming Ivy Bridge successor. With the current and next-generation Intel support covered, open-source compiler developers have already moved onto beginning work for supporting Intel's Haswell microarchitecture that will not be launched until 2013.
Intel Sandy Bridge Shines With Mesa 8.0: Now that the Nouveau, Radeon, and LLVMpipe graphics drivers have been tested under Mesa 8.0, what is left? The Intel DRI driver, of course! The open-source Sandy Bridge Linux graphics support is shining with Mesa 8.0 thanks to OpenGL 3.0 support and measurable performance improvements.
Intel Core i7 3960X Extreme Edition On Linux: By now you have likely heard of the Core i7 3960X processor, which is one of the Sandy Bridge Extreme CPUs that was launched in November by Intel to much excitement and talked about quite a bit on Phoronix in the past few days. In this article is a comprehensive look at the Intel Core i7 3960X performance under Ubuntu Linux.
Intel - It Was One Heck Of A Year For Sandy Bridge Graphics: The year began with Intel launching their "Sandy Bridge" processors. While the CPU performance was very impressive for these latest-generation Intel processors, the graphics performance under Linux was a problem. The drivers were not ready in time.
Intel HiZ Is Finally Ready For Sandy Bridge: As reported earlier this week, HiZ support is now ready for Intel Sandy Bridge graphics under Linux with the Mesa driver. A set of more than three dozen patches were published that finalize this support for Sandy Bridge (Gen6) while the Ivy Bridge (Gen7) support is almost there but there are some performance regressions still being worked out by Intel's OSTC developers.
Industry Reviewstechreport.com: She's finally here. At last, Intel is taking the wraps off of one of the most anticipated bits of silicon we've seen in years: Sandy Bridge. We've known the architectural details of the processor code-named Sandy Bridge for months--they are formidable, new, and different--but we haven't known exactly how the changes would translate into performance and power efficiency, which is the big question about any product overhauled this extensively.
benchmarkreviews.com: Intel's processor development follows a regular "tick-tock" cycle. The "tick" is the refinement of an existing architecture; the "tock" is a new architecture. Proceeding at a roughly yearly pace, the "tick-tock" model brought us the 45nm Nehalem architecture processors (the original Core-i3, -i5, and -i7 CPUs) as a "tock", and the subsequent 32nm Westmere processors as the "tick" part of the cycle.
Intel Core i7-2600K Sandy Bridge reviews are also available at: ocia.net, benchmarkreviews.com, and techwarelabs.com.
hardocp.com: We are lagging a little bit behind the official media embargo date for Intel's new Sandy Bridge processors and honestly, all of the information shown below on this page has been released or leaked previously by Intel, so there should be no real surprises here.
Intel Sandy Bridge 2600K reviews are also available at: mbreview.com.
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