Intel Core i7 3960X Sandy Bridge-E Review - PAGE 6

Sisoft Sandra 2010:

Sandra, by SiSoftware, is a tool capable of benchmarking about every component found inside a computer. The processor arithmetic and multi-core efficiency will be ran as well as the memory bandwidth and latency benchmarks.

The performance results in Sandra show the 3960X dominating all other processors in both of the CPU specific tests. This is a good example of just how much additional raw processing power is offered by the 3960X in comparison to chips that do not have a total of 12 threads. The most impressive benchmark though had to be the one for memory bandwidth. In testing, the quad-channel memory architecture nearly doubled the total memory bandwidth performance with a rating of 41.4GB/s. That is just a massive increase, and while we were expecting to see an improvement over the previous generation, this percentage incresae still managed to impress us.