Ivy Bridge gets early benchmark; graphics gains look good

From CNET News.com: Intel's new Ivy Bridge processors have been benchmarked by enthusiast site Anandtech.

The blog reported earlier this week that while Ivy Bridge's CPU performance offers only a marginal improvement over its predecessor, Sandy Bridge, it shines on the graphics side.

According to Anandtech, current Sandy Bridge processor users will only find a 5 percent to 15 percent increase in CPU performance with the upcoming Ivy Bridge chips. The focus in Ivy Bridge, however, seemed to be placed on the GPU, which saw improvement to the tune of 20 percent to 50 percent in the blog's testing.

That 50 percent improvement came in Anandtech's evaluation of graphics performance playing last year's mega-hit The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim. Although Ivy Bridge came in fourth place in its benchmark, trailing AMD's Radeon HD 5570, Nvidia's GeForce GT440, and the Radeon HD 6550D, it easily outshined Sandy Bridge, scoring a 46.2 (out of 70). Sandy Bridge scored a 31.9 in the study.

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