Some new benches for the Core i7 Posted on 30/09/2008 at 09:24 by Marc
Hardspell has published a series of benchmarks putting a Core i7 up against a Core 2 Quad, both of which clock at 2.93 GHz. The Core i7 940 tested here supports triple channel memory, DDR3-1333 9-8-8-24 in this case. Here are the gains that were recorded:
- SuperPi: 19.3% - WinRAR 3.71: 77.3% - Fritz Chess Benchmark: 29% - Everest Memory (Copy): 149,7% - CineBench: 25.7% - TMPGEnc 4.5: 8% - 3DMark06 CPU: 13.9% - 3DMark Vantage CPU: 50.5% - Half Life 2: 2.3% - World In Conflict: 6.7% - Devil May Cry 4: 5.1%
It should also be noted however that the Core2 does better with Call Of Duty 4 (8.6%) and Company Of Heroes (7.2%). Triple channel memory has a high impact in Everest, but in practice the gains are less impressive, especially with applications not optimized for multithreaded operations. Of course we are only talking preliminary scores right now and we’ll have to wait for the arrival of the final platform in November to get a precise idea of the gains or otherwise of the Core i7. As for Intel, it already announced gains of 10 to 25% in applications that are not multithreaded (or not optimized for multithreading) some time ago and 20% to 100% in those optimized for more than 4-core.
