German hardware site PCGH published benchmark results of a Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 engineering sample. This 45nm chip chip was clocked at 2.5GHz with a 1333MHz FSB and 6MB L2 cache.
Here's a look at one set of the benchmark results. They tested the chip at 2.5GHz but also overclocked it to 3.5GHz.
You can check out all the results over here. The performance appears to be pretty solid.
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 benchmarked
Posted on Monday, January 21 2008 @ 18:33 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck