News - Information points to AMD Llano and Zambezi performance

[HEXUS]

Chart plots out possible playing field.

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[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

A Core I7 2600K beats a Core i7 990X in PCMark Vantage:

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/core-i...w-32126-4.html

This indicates the benchmark does not make very good use of more cores. Hence,the top end Bulldozer CPU is doing a good job if it is matching a Core i7 2600K.

Edit!!

Even when you consider the 100MHZ increase in clockspeed and an extra 4 threads the Core i7 2600K is under 10% faster than a Core i5 2500K in PCMark Vantage:

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Ha...5_2500K/8.html

[Badbonji]

Yeah sounds promising - although the 2600k is still supposed to be "mid-range", the high end becoming LGA2011. Also it doesn't list other specs for the benchmark - if the same GPU was used or HDD etc.