IT168 has chosen Core 2 Duo E8400 for comparison. According to most benchmarks, Clarkdale brings significant performance improvements over Core 2 Duo E8400, whereas showing very slight difference on gaming performance.
Intel 32nm Clarkdale performance preview
Posted on Wednesday, July 29 2009 @ 23:28 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
Expreview found some benchmark results of a 32nm Intel Clarkdale sample, you can check out the results over here. The engineering sample was clocked at 3.06GHz and features 4MB L3 cache.