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Intel Sandy Bridge-E i7-3820 CPU Review

CPU by leeghoofd @ 2012-03-01

Who said all good things come in 3 fold ? Today we introduce Intel's youngest offering in the SnB-e lineup. The i7-3820 is not a hexacore like it's two bigger brothers ; the 3930K and 3960X. But a Quadcore version for the socket 2011 platform. This allows Intel to launch it at a far more affordable price then the two previous mentioned socket 2011 models. Thus making the i7-3820 maybe a perfect replacement CPU for the socket 1366 Bloomfield CPU's. But the competition is fierce, not from AMD, but within Intel's own lineup. What has this i7-3820 more to offer then eg a similar priced 2600K SnB ? After a brief introduction about this i7-3820 we are continuing straight to the results to spot any noteworthy performance differences.

Stock Clocks Results Part 2

Deep Fritz 12 is a freeware multithreaded chess program. The integrated benchmark has a very consistent output. We spot the i7-3820 staying nicely in front of the 2600K

In Cinebench release 11, this brand new quad core only has to give way to the 6 core variants, let me specify, the Intel 6 core variants.

The performance is always just a tad better then the 2600K, though it's far from spectaculor, to just go out and upgrade right now. In SpecPreview the output is really a mixed bag. The 3820 doesn't seem to be able to decide if it wants to be on the high end side or just mainstream.

With the multi threaded SuperPi Y-cruncher test, the massive bandwith of X79 is properly used. The humble 3820 even manages to stay ahead of the mighty 990X Gulftown.

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