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March 2nd, 2011, 08:04 PM | #76 |
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Re: i7 980x Now or Wait for Sandybridge?
Welp, it's a running. An I7
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By the way, I have decided to give Sandy a spin now that a limited number of revised B3-stepping P67/H67 motherboards are in stock (with more coming in next week). The first part (an Asus P8P67 Pro motherboard) is now in my possession. I also ordered 16GB (4 x 4GB) of RAM, and will purchase a 2600K within the next few days. I will be holding on to my current i7-950/X58 setup a little while longer because I will be running tests on both systems with the new memory. (This idea came after I made a claim that the X58 platforms really need astronomically expensive disk setups just to perform as well as a Sandy Bridge system with a more modest but still multi-disk RAID setup.) The loser between the two (in my own environment and with equal KISS disk setups) gets returned or sold. Last edited by Randall Leong; March 22nd, 2011 at 02:49 AM. |
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March 22nd, 2011, 08:08 AM | #78 |
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looking forward to your report.
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March 22nd, 2011, 10:14 PM | #79 |
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Got the CPU today. Still awaiting the arrival of the 16GB of RAM in the mail...
I'm glad I got the RAM at a good price. Otherwise, I would have had to limp along with only 8GB of RAM on that Sandy Bridge system (via four 2GB modules). That said, I will be testing both my current setup and my new setup (both stock and overclocked) with 16GB, and also test my current system at stock with 12GB (in both its current memory configuration of six 2GB modules and with three of the four 4GB modules) and my new setup with 8GB (both with four 2GB modules and with two 4GB modules). A report on all of the results will be posted both in a future post in this thread and on the PPBM5 site. |
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I just received the RAM this morning.
I spent the better part of the evening putting the new system together. Will be testing it at both stock speed and some overclocked speeds. I decided to forego the 8GB tests on the new system, and stick with 16GB. Here are the stock speed results of my new 2600K versus my old i7-950, both with 16GB of DDR3-1600 RAM (all other components except for the motherboard are the same for both systems):
And yes, the Gigabyte motherboard that I used for the i7-950 claims to support "full" triple-channel with four DIMMs of equal size. For a fairer comparison, I re-ran the same test on the stock-speed i7-2600K system with only 8GB of RAM, and compared it with the results of an otherwise identically equipped stock-speed i7-950 system with 12GB of RAM:
The stock i7-2600K system, in my testing, does outperform the stock i7-950 system due in large part to the higher stock clock speed of the 2600K. The i7-950 system with 16GB of RAM, although it was noticeably faster than that same system with 12GB of RAM, was hobbled slightly by its memory controller actually operating in the hybrid Flex mode in which the extra 4GB ran in single-channel mode rather than true triple-channel. One more note: I discovered that the highest-performing stock i7-2600(K) system that's currently on the PPBM5 results list (with a total time of 264 seconds) did not have a RAID array at all. Instead, it relied on a single 2TB, 7200RPM hard drive for everything except the OS. As a result, that system was hobbled by a slow disk subsystem. For comparison, the stock i7-950 system in the PPBM5 list that Harm mentioned in the Adobe forums delivered a 243-second result mainly due to its 24GB of RAM running in true triple-channel mode despite its two 150GB 10,000RPM hard drives in a RAID 0 array underperforming several two-disk RAID 0 arrays with 7200RPM hard drives (although it was still slower than my stock-speed i7-2600K results with 16GB of RAM). Results have been submitted for posting on the PPBM site. Last edited by Randall Leong; March 27th, 2011 at 02:57 PM. |
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Re: i7 980x Now or Wait for Sandybridge?
while PPBM is ok for an idea a better benchmark it to take the same footage on both systems and render it out EG AVCHD to H264.
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The comparison that you gave between the i7-2600K and the i7-980X earlier is somewhat meaningless because there are too many variables between the two systems - disk subsystems, graphics card drivers and memory speeds, as well as the degree of overclocking. For all I know the memory in the 2600K system was running at its official DDR3-1333 speed while the memory in the i7-980X system was held back to DDR3-1066 speed. And in practice dual-channel 1333-speed memory actually delivers greater bandwidth than triple-channel 1066-speed memory. |
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March 29th, 2011, 07:24 AM | #83 |
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all ram in my systems always runs at 1600 nothing less.
for my benchmarks we always use the same disks etc we always use 2 sets raid 0 and standard Sata OS (unless doing a drive benchmark) then everything is the same but the Drives. we have also tested ssds as media drive, temp file drive OS drive etc (pointless) the only variables are the Mobo, CPU we may have a different videocard in there but really for the test we are doing it matters not. in fact here the SB has the lower video card and still beats the 980x I7 2600K 3.4GHZ Turbo to 4.7GHz 16GB Blackline 1600 CL 9 470GTX 3 Layer - 31:35 4 Layer - 34:35 I7 980X 4GHZ 12GB Blackline 1600 CL 9 570GTX 3 Layer - 32:30 4 Layer - 35:25 as far as ram quantity.. note the 8 gig and slower video vs the 16gig and faster video. with the same GHZ CPU.. not a huge performance difference at all. break it down to seconds. 40:49 = 2449 40:05= 2405 about a 1.74% better performance with double the ram and a better video card. I7 2600 3.4GHZ Turbo to 3.9GHz 8GB Blackline 1600 CL 9 460GTX 4 WD 1Tb Sata 64 Meg Cache 600 Drives in 2 Raid 0 arrays 3 Layer - 37:35 4 Layer - 40:49 16GB Blackline 1600 CL 9 570GTX 3 Layer - 36:17 4 Layer - 40:05 now 2 things i need to comment on the AVCHD to H264 test is too lite on a system to show any serious differences. we picked it 2 yrs ago as it was (and still is) the most common workflow. (we also do a red 4k which does show better) i also think the PPBM is too lite and too short as well. but for a downloadable test you have no choice.. so we started adding the lightning effect and have not finished collecting numbers for everything.. (too stinking busy :-) ) Dual Xeon X5680 CPU's at 4.0GHz 48 GB DDR3 1600 Blackline at 1600 4 WD RE4 2Tb Sata 64 Meg Cache Drives in Raid 5 array 580GTX 3 Layer - 31:00 4 Layer - 31:11 3 Layer w/Lightning - 1:11:52 4 Layer w/Lightning - 1:26:36 I7 2600K 3.4GHZ Turbo to 4.5GHz 16GB Blackline 1600 CL 9 470GTX 2x raid 0 3 Layer w/Lightning - 1:46:37 4 Layer w/Lightning - 2:05:44 so again as i said you need to test both systems with YOUR normal workflow and make them as identical as possible to see which better suites you. Scott ADK |
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I've also discovered that low MPE performance with any given Nvidia GPU is due to an improperly tuned system and/or improper graphics driver settings and/or an excessive number of processes running in the background, not the limitations of the PCI-e bus in current mainstream Intel platforms. As such, the PCI-e limitations of the LGA 1155 platform can potentially reduce performance with future components. In practice, however, the performance reduction with current components is virtually nil. As for the replacement for the current LGA 1366, there will be none (technically). Based on ever-changing plans, there will be no desktop CPU from Intel that uses the LGA 1356 socket. All of the new Intel CPUs higher than the current 2600K will be LGA 2011 only. However, the desktop i7 Extreme LGA 2011 CPUs will be gimped to only 24 PCI-e lanes (instead of the full 40 PCI-e lanes in the server Xeon versions of the same CPU). That's only four PCI-e lanes more than the 20 PCI-e lanes in the current LGA 1155 CPUs (plus any additional PCI-e lanes available from those on the PCH). Because of this gimping, the forthcoming LGA 2011 platform replacement for the current i7-9xx series will be much less attractive than one would expect since the only CPUs that are equipped to support a hardware RAID controller would cost more than $2,000 for each CPU. The current LGA 1155/P67 platform theoretically has 28 total PCI-e lanes, of which four of those from the CPU are disabled during manufacturing (leaving only 16 PCI-e lanes available from the CPU) and anywhere from four to six from the P67/H67 PCH being eaten up by the motherboards' onboard devices (e.g. USB 3.0, an extra SATA 6.0 Gbps controller, etc.). That said, there will be LGA 1356 CPUs on the market - but they (according to current plans) will be sold only as Xeon processors for single-CPU servers. And even if the higher-end i7s were to be available in LGA 1356, that socket would not be much if any better of a choice than LGA 1155: The LGA 1356 CPUs will be designed with only 24 PCI-e 3.0 lanes in the CPU - still not enough lanes unless the chipset can access more than 16 on-CPU lanes. Last edited by Randall Leong; March 30th, 2011 at 09:42 AM. |
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