INTEL Core i7 3970X

By today’s standards SNB-E CPUs are slow. If you look at HWBOT all you see is Ivy-Bridge CPUs dominating pretty much every single benchmark there is. No surprise there as there’s no beating the IPC of that family of CPUs. Despite being limited to eight threads at most, the performance advantage over last generation Core CPUs is enough to make up for that in many of the benchmarks. Read the full story here