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Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Review - 45nm Era Begins
Reported by VRArchiver on Monday, October 29 2007 3:30 pm
The 45nm era has finally arrived and Intel will be launching the next generation Extreme edition CPU, the QX9650. In this review, we will be taking a look at how this 3GHz QX9650 stack up against similarly clocked QX6850 and E6850. It will be interesting to see how the 4MB, 8MB and 12MB L2 cache processors perform and if the micro-architecture enhancements on the Yorkfield will aid it in the real world benchmarks.
We check out some really CPU intensive and cache hogging applications like WinRAR, POVRay and CineBench. As evident, when the applications gets more CPU intensive, the performance delta between the 3GHz processors widen. More cores and cache certainly helps here.
