The Sandy Bridge Review

Posted by Jon Peddie on January 12th 2011 | Permalink
Categories: Software Review
Tags: gpu intel cpu review benchmark sandybridge

Jon Peddie

CES is over and the  hope, promise, and promise of Intel’s Sandy Bridge CPU with embedded processor graphics (EPG) has been revealed. There is rejoicing through the press and the webosphere. We’ve been testing and using a 4-core version Sandy Bridge Core i5-2500k running at 3.3 GHz. We ran a variety of tests and compared the Sandy Bridge against the previous generation, Clarkdale. As you might expect, Sandy Bridge, code named “SNB,” is a “Tock,” and considerably faster in all the operations we tested, including CPU tests, and graphics. Intel's new Sandy Bridge desktop processor architecture has a lot going on,…