Intel Core i7-970 CPU Review

Written by James Gorbold

July 19, 2010 | 08:31

Tags: #6-core #970 #core-i7 #cpu #hexa-core #hex-core #lga1366 #overclocking #processor #six-core

Companies: #amd #intel

Media Benchmarks

Download from: bit-tech.net

We have developed our own suite of benchmarks using real-world and open source applications to simulate how PCs are actually used. The suite comprises an image editing test using Gimp, a video encoding test using Handbrake and a multi-tasking test using 7-Zip to archive and encrypt a large batch of files while a HD movie plays in mplayer.

A score of 1,000 means that the test system is as fast as our reference PC, which used a 2.66GHz Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 at stock speed, 2GB of Corsair 1,066MHz DDR2 memory, a 250GB Samsung SpinPoint P120S hard disk and an Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi-AP motherboard. The scoring is linear, so a system scoring 1,200 points is 20 per cent faster than our reference system. Equally, a system scoring 1,200 is 4 per cent faster than a system scoring 1,150.

Gimp Image Editing

Website: Gimp

Far from being some kind of pr0n-filtering tool, Gimp is an Open Source image editing application - Gimp is an acronym of GNU Image Manipulation Program. Our test simulates how well a PC can manipulate a collection of large digital photos, and to achieve a low time requires a PC with a powerful CPU, plenty of quick memory and efficient access to storage.

Gimp Image Editing Test

Media Benchmarks

  • Intel Core i7-930 (4.3GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition (4.4GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-970 (4GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition (3.33GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-970 (3.2GHz)
  • AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition (3.87GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-930 (2.8GHz)
  • AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition (3.2GHz)
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Score (points), higher is better.

Video encoding with Handbrake

Website: http://handbrake.fr

We use the open-source, GPL-licensed, multi-platform, multi-threaded video encoder Handbrake to encode a HD video using the H.264 codec. This primarily tests multi-threaded CPU and memory subsystem performance.

Handbrake H.264 Video Encoding

Media Benchmarks

  • Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition (4.4GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-970 (4GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-930 (4.3GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-980X Extreme Edition (3.33GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-970 (3.2GHz)
  • AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition (3.87GHz)
  • Intel Core i7-930 (2.8GHz)
  • AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition (3.2GHz)
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  • 3679
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  • 1992
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Score (points), higher is better.

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