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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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Multi-threaded goodness

DivX 6.8.3 + LAME encoding, enhanced multithreading on
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
161.1171243247208.7234259.92


CINEBENCH R10 64-bit - multi-CPU render
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
19869189111339212308156691326612441


Pov-ray 3.7.0 beta 25a - 64-bit
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
4307.514102.032517.082319.83401.82456.832331.4


A higher clock-speed ensures that it beats out the Core i7 965 EE when the execution cores are heavily loaded.