First Intel Core M “Broadwell” Benchmarks Revealed

Intel is very excited about their ambitious Core M processor and were showing it off at IDF 2014. The performance segment dual-core processor has a thermal envelope of only 4.5W, which makes it ideal for tablets, ultra-portables, and mainstream desktops. Intel was showing a 12.5-inch tablet running a Core M 5Y70 chip. This is an MCM of the CPU and PCH dies. The CPU features two “Broadwell” 64-bit x86 cores, a new graphics processor with 24 execution units and 192 stream engines, 4 MB of L3 cache, a dual-channel LPDDR3 memory controller and a PCI-Express 3.0 root complex.

The tablet featuring the chip was put through three benchmarks tests they included Cinebench R11.5, SunSpider 1.0.2, and 3DMark Ice Storm Unlimited.

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In Cinebench R11.5 the Core M scores 17 FPS in the GL bench and has a CPU score of 2.48 pts. That is just about 60% the performance of a Core i7-870, much higher than anything Atom, Pentium or AMD E-Series. In SunSpider the Core M scored 142.8 using Internet Explorer 12 running under Windows 8.1. Finally in the 3DMark Ice Storm unlimited the Core M scored 50985 points. That would be double that of a Qualcom Snapdragon 800 and faster than IGPs that AMD’s E-Series APUs ship with. I would have to say we are very intrigued.

Source: HotHardware | News Archive

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