3DMark Vantage
| 3DMark Vantage Overall Performance |
|
| 3-way GTX 280 (Core i7 965 EE) | 3-way GTX 280 (Core 2 Extreme) |
|---|
| 28009 | 24983 |
| 3DMark Vantage CPU Performance |
|
| 3-way GTX 280 (Core i7 965 EE) | 3-way GTX 280 (Core 2 Extreme) |
|---|
| 43718 | 38560 |
| 3DMark Vantage - GPU Test 1 |
|
| 3-way GTX 280 (Core i7 965 EE) | 3-way GTX 280 (Core 2 Extreme) |
|---|
| 70 | 62.62 |
| 3DMark Vantage - GPU Test 2 |
|
| 3-way GTX 280 (Core i7 965 EE) | 3-way GTX 280 (Core 2 Extreme) |
|---|
| 76.65 | 68.47 |
We're off and running, and 3DMark shows us that Core i7's distinct lead in CPU performance translates to a healthy bump in performance on a high-end gaming system.
A Core i7 setup equipped with three GeForce GTX 280 graphics cards shows an overall performance boost of over 10 per cent when compared to a high-end Core 2 machine with the game GPUs. Synthetic benchmarks, then, concur with NVIDIA - Core i7 justifies SLI. But how about the games themselves?
