Benchmarks - multi-threaded apps
Not much to choose between the two top CPUs in these heavily multi-threaded tests.
It's impossible to see the performance difference from one SNB-E chip to another. The wPrime, CINEBENCH and 7-zip runs all seem identical, which is reinforced by the actual scores.
No benchmark thus far has shown a meaningful reduction in performance from the relative lack of L3 cache, though 12MB, which is the 3930K's complement, is more than large enough to hold the datasets of our apps. On-chip cache sizes mattered when jumping from 1MB to, say, 8MB, by the way.
