Performance

Desktop Performance

Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Family

Intel® Core™ i5 Processor Family

Intel® Core™2 Processor Family

Intel® Core™2 processor Family with vPro™ Technology


Intel® Core2 Quad Processors Digital home: testing configuration

August 2008

System configuration used in performance tests
Processor Intel® Core™2 Quad processor Q6700 Intel® Core™2 Quad processor Q9650
Processor speed 2.66 GHz 3.00 GHz
Processor secondary cache 8MB Level 2 cache 6MB Level 2 cache
Front side bus 1066 MHz 1333 MHz
Motherboard Intel® DG33TL desktop board Preproduction Intel® DG45ID desktop board
Memory size 2 GB 2 GB
Memory timing 5-5-5-18 5-5-5-18
Memory speed 800 MHz 800 MHz
Hard disk Seagate Barracuda* ST3320620AS 320 GB Seagate Barracuda ST3320620AS 320 GB
Operating system Microsoft Windows Vista* x86 Ultimate Microsoft Windows Vista x86 Ultimate
Graphics card vendor and model number Intel® Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X3100 Intel® Integrated Graphics Media Accelerator X4500 HD
Graphics card driver Intel® 7.15.10.1481 Intel 7.15.10.1481
Testing source Intel Corporation, August 2008 Intel Corporation, August 2008