Intel: Core i7 20% faster in Colonies than Core 2

Posted on Monday, October 20 2008 @ 20:27 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck

TweakTown saw a demonstration of the Core i7's gaming performance at the IDF in Taiwan. The chip maker showed its Core i7 running at 3.2GHz is around 20 percent faster in Lost Planet: Colonies than a QX9770 at 3.2GHz:

A Core i7 running at 3.2GHz with an ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics card was compared against a current generation QX9770 also running at 3.2GHz with the same graphics card and hard disk drive.

The game used was Lost Planet: Colonies and the fly-by benchmark demo showed the Nehalem based system beating out the present day most high-end Intel processor by around 20%.

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