The additional cores came in handy for the arithmetic based benchmarks here but the quad core i7-3770k still performed very well. All of its numbers were very close to what we saw with the quad core i7-3820 as well.

Proof that it’s not always about how many cores you have, the i7-3770k out performed in most of the real world benchmarks. Of course the high dollar i7-3860X did out perform in a few cases and that should be expected.

As you can see the six core CPUs excel at wPrime but once you look past that its really impressive to see the results we saw with the i7-3770k. Coming in well below what we saw with our i7-2600 even, it’s clear the i7-3770 has great arithmetic performance.

Our X264 results are very similar to what we saw with wPrime, the six core cpu’s excel with the i7-3770 just behind.