The most surprising match up was between the Core i5 750 and Core i7 860, which I mentioned was our original intention for this article. When clocked at the same frequency there is little difference between these two processors, and when pushing them as high as 3.60GHz there really is no difference. Of course the only difference between the two is the Hyper-Threading support of the Core i7 860, which really failed to help it in the majority of our tests.
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Clock for Clock: Core i5, Core i7, Core 2 Quad and Phenom II X4 Performance
Posted on Wednesday, September 16 2009 @ 7:25 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck