Performance

Desktop Performance

Intel® Core™ i7 Processor Extreme Edition

2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i7-2600 processor

2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i5-2500k processor

2nd Generation Intel® Core™ i5-2400 processor

2nd Generation Intel® Core™ processors with Intel® HD Graphics

Previous generation desktop processors


Extreme Desktop: Test System Configuration

System configuration used in performance tests

Processor Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX6850
Frequency Quad-Core 3.00 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB
Microarchitecture Intel® Core™ microarchitecture
Motherboard ASUS* P5E3 Deluxe
Motherboard BIOS ASUS P5E3 beta 0504
Cache 8 MB of total L2 cache
Memory size 2 GB (2 x 1GB DIMMs) Corsair* DDR3-1333 (9-9-9-24)
Chipset Inf File Intel® Chipset Software Installation File 8.4.0.1016
Hard disk Seagate Baracuda* 320GB SATA 7200RPM
Hard disk driver Intel® Matrix Storage Manager 7.6.0.1011
Video controller/bus nVidia Geforce* 8800 GTX
Video memory size/type 768 MB GDDRIII
Operating system Microsoft Windows Vista* Ultimate 32-bit, Build 6000, NTFS
Video driver revision nVidia Forceware* 163.69
Graphics 1024 x 1024 resolution, 32-bit color
Testing source Intel Corporation, November 2007

System configuration used in performance tests

Processor Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor QX9650
Frequency Quad-Core 3.0 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB
Microarchitecture Intel® Core™ microarchitecture
Motherboard ASUS* P5E3 Deluxe
Motherboard BIOS ASUS P5E3 beta 0504
Cache 12 MB of total L2 cache
Memory size 2 GB (2 x 1GB DIMMs) Corsair* DDR3-1333 (9-9-9-24)
Chipset Inf File Intel® Chipset Software Installation File 8.4.0.1016
Hard disk Seagate Baracuda* 320GB SATA 7200RPM
Hard disk driver Intel® Matrix Storage Manager 7.6.0.1011
Video controller/bus nVidia Geforce* 8800 GTX
Video memory size/type 768 MB GDDRIII
Operating system Microsoft Windows Vista* Ultimate 32-bit, Build 6000, NTFS
Video driver revision nVidia Forceware* 163.69
Graphics 1024 x 1024 resolution, 32-bit color
Testing source Intel Corporation, November 2007
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