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Review: Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition: piling on the pounds

by Tarinder Sandhu on 3 June 2009, 05:00 3.5

Tags: Core i7 920, Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), AMD (NYSE:AMD), PC

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Bandwidth, latency, and HEXUS.PiFast

Sciencemark 2 memory latency
Intel Core i7 975 EEIntel Core i7 965 EEAMD Phenom II X4 955 BEIntel Core 2 Quad Q9550Intel Core i7 920Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650AMD Phenom II X4 940 BE
35.0135.4355.4446.2438.1146.1755.52


Sisoft Sandra 2009 SP2 (15.72) - float buffered
Intel Core i7 975 EEIntel Core i7 965 EEAMD Phenom II X4 955 BEIntel Core 2 Quad Q9550Intel Core i7 920Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650AMD Phenom II X4 940 BE
22.722.5412.926.7422.16.7911.91


Standing head and shoulders above the rest in latency and bandwidth analysis, the new Core i7 975 EE just edges out the other two Nehalem-derived chips.

HEXUS.PiFast - calculation to 10m places
Intel Core i7 975 EEIntel Core i7 965 EEAMD Phenom II X4 955 BEIntel Core 2 Quad Q9550Intel Core i7 920Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650AMD Phenom II X4 940 BE
24.3226.6334.2232.7132.430.736.58


And, clearly, it's the fastest at completing the number-crunching HEXUS.PiFast test.