HEXUS.pro and HEXUS.gaming
| HEXUS.pro - CINEBENCH R10 - multi-CPU render | ||
|---|---|---|
| Scan 3XS X58 i7 920 | Chillblast Fusion Gemini | PC Specialist Apollo Q260GTX |
| 20833 | 13338 | 11568 |
CINEBENCH is an ideal poster-child for Intel's marketing strategy for Core i7 as it's able to fully exploit all four of the processor's additional virtual cores.
The result is undeniably-huge boosts to performance in heavily multi-threaded applications when compared to the incumbent Core 2 architecture. As such, and even though only 5 per cent separates them in clock-speed, the 3.65GHz Core i7 920 in the Scan system leaves the Chillblast in its dust with a colossal performance advantage of some 56 per cent.
| HEXUS.gaming - ET:QW - 1,920x1,200 4xAA 16xAF | ||
|---|---|---|
| Scan 3XS X58 i7 920 | Chillblast Fusion Gemini | PC Specialist Apollo Q260GTX |
| 89 | 103.2 | 71.4 |
As we don't get to hang onto the review systems for too long, we don't have results at both resolutions in both of the games. We'll therefore only directly compare gaming performance for now in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars at 1,920x1,200.
Performance numbers have however been run at other settings on the Scan system, and at 1,680x1,050 in Enemy Territory: Quake Wars it scored 107.17fps.
In COD 4 at 1,680x1,050 it scored 91fps, and at 1,920x1,200 the score drops down to 78.2 fps.
Gaming, traditionally, hasn't been able to take as much advantage of CPU differences as 2D applications have, especially as modern titles still barely take advantage of dual-core CPUs, let alone quad- or octo-core. Sadly this is shown only too well by the results above.
The Chillblast manages to score a victory here, winning out against both its NVIDIA GPU-based competitors. The Radeon HD 4870 X2 used in the Chillblast system is more than a match for a stock-clocked GTX 280, let alone the heavily overclocked GTX 260 in the Scan system.
