The Core i5-3470 is a cpu manufactured by Intel that was released on June 2012. This model has 4 Ivy Bridge cores , runs at 3200 MHz as base frequency and has a a thermal design power of 77 W.
"Ivy Bridge is the last Intel microarchitecture for which there is official driver support for Windows XP . It is made under 22 nm Tri-Gate transistor (""3D"") technology and is basically a Sandy Bridge shrink. It has PCI Express 3.0 support and RdRand instruction for security tasks."
The benchmark in Mode 0 (FPU) measures cpu performance with non-optimized software. It uses the basic µinstructions from the i386 architecture with the i387 floating point unit. This mode is compatible with all CPUs so it's practical to compare very different CPUs
Monothread
Multithread
Test#1 (Integers)
3.62k
13.66k (x3.8)
Test#2 (FP)
10.08k
37.73k (x3.7)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
4.47k
17.07k (x3.8)
Test#1 (Memory)
5.39k
8.57k (x1.6)
TOTAL
23.56k
77.04k (x3.3)
SSE3 optimized benchmark
The benchmark in mode I (SSE) is optimized for the use of SIMD instructions with 128 bits register and the SSE set up to version 3. Nearly every modern CPU has support for this mode.
Monothread
Multithread
Test#1 (Integers)
12.26k
46.54k (x3.8)
Test#2 (FP)
11k
41.4k (x3.8)
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP)
4.76k
18.09k (x3.8)
Test#1 (Memory)
5.39k
8.69k (x1.6)
TOTAL
33.42k
114.73k (x3.4)
AVX optimized benchmark
The benchmark in mode II (AVX) is optimized to used 256 bits registers beside the first version of the Advanced Vector Extensions (AVX). The first AVX compatible CPU was released in 2011.
Monothread performance graphics gives the performance vs time. They are useful to measure the time it takes to the CPU to reach the maximum performance.
Usually, CPU's performance will be steady during these tests but if it has a slow frequency strategy, the first samples will show a lower score.
Test#1 (Integers) [% vs time]
Test#2 (FP) [% vs time]
Test#3 (Generic, ZIP) [% vs time]
Test#1 (Memory) [% vs time]
Multithread performance graph
Multithread graphs measure the performance against a heavy load during certain time.
If CPU's TDP doesn't limit the frequency and the machine is properly cooled, performance should remain steady vs time. Otherwise, the performance score will oscillate or decrease over time.