Time is reported in seconds and the lower numbers mean better performance. The test does basic photo editing there are a couple of color space conversions, many layer creations, color curve adjustment, image and canvas size adjustment, unsharp mask, and finally a gaussian blur performed on the entire image. To measure performance under Photoshop CS4 we turn to the Retouch Artists’ Speed Test. If, however, building Visual Studio projects is the most thread heavy thing you do then Haswell is a better option. In this case, if the rest of your applications are better threaded/demand more cores then IVB-E is the right solution for you. IVB-E on the other hand throws more cores at the problem, effectively equaling Haswell's performance but not exceeding it. Haswell's architectural improvements seem to do wonders for this test (under OS X as well), giving the 4770K a 16% lower compile time than Ivy Bridge. It turns out our Firefox compile test is just that. It's clear that IVB-E holds the advantage over Haswell when faced with heavily threaded workloads, but what about those workloads that are a good mix of both light and heavily threaded tasks? A medium-threaded workload if you will. Compile times are reported in minutes elapsed. The end result is a benchmark that stresses both single and multithreaded performance. The compile is multithreaded however there are periods of serial operation where performance is bound by the speed of a single core. We're now using Visual Studio 2012 to compile Mozilla's Firefox project. With a much larger and faster SSD (Samsung SSD 830, 512GB), we're able to get more consistent compile times between runs.
Our compile test is back and better than ever.
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