The Intel Haswell Refresh Review: Core i7-4790, i5-4690 and i3-4360 Tested
by Ian Cutress on May 11, 2014 3:01 AM ESTWeb Benchmarks
With certain classes of CPUs, using the IGP for web-based activities (such as those heavy in Javascript and HTML 5 elements) can be comparable to the higher end smartphone and tablet implementations. These tests help to emulate large, real-world web applications running inside mobile browsers. To this extent we use the following tests to compare the lower powered mobile devices through to the higher end desktop market.
SunSpider 1.0.2: link
Mozilla Kraken 1.1: link
PT WebXPRT 2013: link
Google Octane 2: link
It would seem all of the web based benchmarks love CPU speed, and Octane responds well to having more threads available.
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ilkhan - Sunday, May 11, 2014 - link
With 9-series, Intel is enabling Rapid Storage Technology 13, allowing UEFI support, RADI 0/1/5/10Think you meant RAID.
Ian Cutress - Sunday, May 11, 2014 - link
Interesting, I remember correcting that a couple of days ago in an edit. Might not have saved. Updated :)ahar - Sunday, May 11, 2014 - link
I await your correction in the conclusion with bated breath. ;)Bugfree - Sunday, May 11, 2014 - link
Reading the conclusions I agree that Intel is somehow underperforming, since...well...they can. No real challengers or competition from AMD at this point. I really hope this changes soon...schizoide - Sunday, May 11, 2014 - link
Exactly. Intel doesn't _need_ to release anything. They essentially have no competitors at the high-end space. AMD's CPUs can't even compete with the i3.nandnandnand - Sunday, May 11, 2014 - link
It would take a miracle to inject competition into the CPU market: http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1322247Jaaap - Monday, May 12, 2014 - link
We need that miracle.This "Haswell Refresh" is total nonsense. It is just shuffling a bit with names and frequencies.
Where is the looooong overdue desktop quadcore with Iris Pro?
ReaM - Sunday, November 23, 2014 - link
"AMD's CPUs can't even compete with the i3"I think you've read some other article, because A8-7600 destroys the equally priced i3 in most tests.
The gaming benchmarks are skewed towards intel in this review because they've used 1280x1084 resolution on most gaming tests. Many of the games don't run well on full HD and intel.
John3000 - Saturday, November 28, 2015 - link
AMD CPU's like fx 8350 are beaten in some game by i3 by a very small margin but in most they are close to Core i5 and in many AAA Game are near to core i7 in performance.shorne21592159 - Thursday, May 15, 2014 - link
i have just changed to using amd apus after many years using intel chips .im really enjoying amd and what they are doing at the moment with lot of hope for the future and although not as fast as intels at moment they do the job at the moment well for me ,plus i seem to be able to overclock amd chips much more than an intel with less problems for some reason