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i7 990 is out! Some benchmarks!

WingZero30 said:
7Ghz!!

Now here is the chip that will beat i7 2600k hands down in benchmarks. However vcore 1.9v on 32nm lol:p. But it is a beast. I must say that they should have labelled it as i7 1000x!!:D


shouldn't it have 12 threads? cpu-z seems to show only 6 threads ?
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er it didn't beat my i7 2600k hands down :-) lol, in fact my super-Pi time is better. Doubt it would be at 7ghz though, but then I would love to see what the 2600k would be at following the same methodology they used.
 
Doesn't impress me much, the 1M SuperPi time is slower than what I've seen most 2600k's @ 5ghz, if they have to turn HT off and overclock to over 6ghz using LN2 to beat a 2600k on air, then I'm not impressed.
 
I would love to have this CPU as an upgrade!

Far too expensive atm, though I wonder how much less it will cost after Ivy Bridge is released :)

The I7 970 on the other hand rarely ever manages o go much higher than 4.4 Ghz, what exactly have Intel done to make this one clock so much higher?
 
Good to see Intel not completely abandoning LGA 1366. I guess we might see corresponding Xeon chips, which means the EVGA Sr-2 is not old hat yet. Still no AVX, just a faster Gulftown.... I smell a P.S edit coming on, I hope.
 
Pfft - do it on air - then I'll be impressed. A 3 minute suicide run with 1 stick of RAM, while producing an impressive clock speed, is hardly going to be usable - which is the entire point of a PC surely?
 
Plus its a ES and probably cherry picked.

I would like to see how this compares to the 980X, I'm assuuming no difference.

For the price Intel should guarantee a minimum overclock.
 
Marvin said:
Pfft - do it on air - then I'll be impressed. A 3 minute suicide run with 1 stick of RAM, while producing an impressive clock speed, is hardly going to be usable - which is the entire point of a PC surely?
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I thought the whole point behind a suicide run was to see how much you could overclock by without taking into account actual useability of the computer itself? Far as I see it, its just for fun and for the occasional epeen converstation?

I do agree with you though that this doesnt really show what the chip can overclock to with stable performance.
 
robj20 said:
Bit of a daft comment really, not exactly competing in the same price brackets is it. I would expect a chip costing 3 times as much to be better, is it 3 times faster though?
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Mind you, working on that logic is an i7 2600K 3½ times faster than a Phenom II X4 840 or an Athlon II X4 640? As the 2600K costs nearly 3½ as much as either of those.
 
Marvin said:
Pfft - do it on air - then I'll be impressed. A 3 minute suicide run with 1 stick of RAM, while producing an impressive clock speed, is hardly going to be usable - which is the entire point of a PC surely?
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I don't know... The fact that it can actually run at that speed and voltage is impressive. Even if the performance is somewhat crippled.

Maybe a flawed analogy, but a 12 cylinder engine wailing at 25,000 rpm even for a few minutes would be a feat in itself. To be able to take all that stress... A testament to the quality and precision engineering I suppose.
 
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