Intel Core i7 – Nehalem Arrives and FSB Departs

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Intel Core i7 Processor

Intel Core i7 Processor

Intel Core i7 Processor

Intel Core i7 Processor

First on our list is EVEREST. While we normally use this only to test the memory, today we added in two extra benchmarks; one for the CPU ALU and one for the Floating point. First, we can see that the Core i7’s new integrated memory controller has a ridiculous amount of bandwidth. Moving into the CPU tests, we see Core i7 has really got some extra power over the Core 2.

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