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Intel Core i7 970 CPU review: six cores for £680

by Tarinder Sandhu on 5 August 2010, 08:39 3.0

Tags: Core i7 970, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)

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Benchmarks II

Three further multi-threaded tests show that the 970 is just a few per cent slower than 980X. The reason that it's so close is down to just how similar the chips are - ostensibly separated by a single multiplier. AMD's finest does well to come in a distant third.

Gaming

More cores do practically nothing in our solitary gaming test that's run at real-world settings.