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All Sandy Bridge tests were done were done at a stock clock of 3.4GHZ using a GTX 580 with a PCIe 3.0 interface. All Ivy Bridge tests were done at a stock clock of 3.5GHZz and the retested with an overclock of 4.6GHz on air-cooling alone and no voltage modifications. All computational tests were ran 3 times and balance for accuracy. Graphics and multimedia tests were done with MVP enabled and then again disabled to show the difference in performance values using that technology in conjunction with the onboard HD4000 graphics chip. All internal graphics test scores are shown on their own page, we use both DX10 and DX11 in our tests.
With the release of Ivy Bridge, Intel did not reinvent the wheel, but they did make a better tire to grip the road you're on. Ivy Bridge breathes just enough new life into the desktop environment to at least keep things interesting through the summer season and show a positive direction for the future of embedded graphics.
