Intel Core i7 965 up to 50% faster than QX9770?

Posted on Monday, October 06 2008 @ 21:47 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

Expreview claims marketing documents from Intel point out that the upcoming Core i7 965 3.2GHz processor from Intel will offer a significant performance boost over the similar-clocked Core 2 Extreme QX9770 chip:

In a recent document sent to partners, Intel pointed out that when comparing Core i7-965 to a QX9770, we can get 52% more 3D gaming performance, 38% more rendering performance and 41% more movie editing and conversion performance. (Core i7-965 platform: X58, DDR3 3G, Discrete VGA card, QX9770 platform unknown.)

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