Intel® Core™ i7-970 Processor
12M Cache, 3.20 GHz, 4.80 GT/s Intel® QPI
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12/23/2012
SummaryBenchmarking 86 CPUs takes a while. After long last, though, we have 51 models from AMD and 35 from Intel tested in our current suite. If you want to know how your processor sizes up to its competition, you'll find plenty of comparison data inside! 86 C...
tomshardware.com -
01/25/2012
SummaryThis time we'd like to offer you the summarized test results of as many as 71 processors. This generally marks the end of the year, not the end of another test method's life cycle (like the last time). We believe this summary contains all important pro...
ixbtlabs.com
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03/31/2011
SummaryLet's show the basic specs of all Core i7 processors released to date in a series of quick-reference tables. The Core i7 was the first Intel processor to bring an integrated memory controller, feature available on AMD processors since the Athlon 64. In...
hardwaresecrets.com -
12/02/2010
SummaryRecently we have begun to publish a series of reviews with the results of a comprehensive test of modern CPUs we did in our test labs. Right now you can read two articles on that topic: CPU Benchmark, Part 1: Value Processors CPU Benchmark, Part 2: Mai...
xbitlabs.com -
11/01/2010
SummaryFor a convenient way to see overall how LLVMpipe scales on this six-core Intel Core i7 processor, here's this overview graph below generated by the Phoronix Test Suite that we normally do not include within articles, but it illustrates the per-core sca...
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09/10/2010
SummaryView a PDF of this article. (NOTE: These pages are PDF (Portable Document Format) files. You will need Adobe Acrobat to view these pages. Download Adobe Acrobat Reader) Want more information about a topic you found of interest while reading this artic...
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08/12/2010
SummaryIn this respect, the new Core i7-970's performance profile lines up right where you'd expect it to be. In lightly threaded or single-threaded workloads, it slides in just under the wire behind a quad-core Core i7-975 processor, due to its slightly lower...
hothardware.comProsKiller Performance, Great Overclocker, 6-Cores, Yay, Compatible With Existing Mobos
ConsStill Very Pricey, 6-Core Resources Wasted With Some Workloads
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08/12/2010
SummaryIf you cast your minds back a little bit to our 980X review (available here) you'll remember that we found it to be the fastest, most incredible processor on the planet. Admittedly for £850 you'd expect nothing left but the results we obtained from it sma...
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07/19/2010
SummaryDue to the high price of the i7-980X EE, a cheaper 6-core such as the i7-970 was a highly anticipated processor in the bit-tech office. Unfortunately, despite its non-EE branding, the i7-970 is still a very expensive CPU.Those readers hoping for a 6-core...
Bit-Tech.net -
06/01/2010
SummaryIn March I called the Core i7 980X the first Extreme Edition CPU that I was excited about. Price aside, you make no tradeoffs with the 980X. You get the absolute best performance in heavily threaded applications and nearly the same in all other workloads...
anandtech.com
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