News - Leaked slides provide a taste of Core i7-3960X performance

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Intel's next flagship processor benchmarked and compared to Core i7-990X.

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I love the apparently known values of 12-15% faster, accompanied by an 'estimated' 36% faster 3D gaming performance. Playing to a crowd, perchance?

Still, looks nice, and about time they produced something faster. Maybe they're beginning to feel AMD snapping at their toes again?

Seems quite coincidental that bulldozer is just about to poke its head and intel release performance suggestions of their chips. I think the tactics are quite clear here.

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Originally Posted by Biscuit

Seems quite coincidental that bulldozer is just about to poke its head and intel release performance suggestions of their chips. I think the tactics are quite clear here.

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True, but I would be gobsmacked if this chip is in competition with any Bulldozer CPU.
All indications currently are that bulldozer will be competing with the mainstream Sandy Bridge CPU's

Idiot AMD, issue that quad channel for your MB, for what you waiting for?

sweet