PCMark Vantage
PCMark Vantage

Futuremark’s newest benchmark suite, PCMark Vantage, was released earlier this year we published an initial article on the new software that looked at some CPU performance as well as providing overviews for all the individual testing suites it uses and what kind of applications they emulate.  The new Vantage software takes a much more real-world user-scenario approach to testing that previous PCMark software and as such deserves more time our benchmark analysis.

If you haven’t yet done so, I would HIGHLY recommend you head over to my previous article that has a lot of detail on what these PCMark Vantage tests actually do.  That will give you a better understanding of the results to aid in your potential purchasing decision.

Nehalem Revolution: Intel's Core i7 Processor Complete Review - Processors 102

Nehalem Revolution: Intel's Core i7 Processor Complete Review - Processors 103

Nehalem Revolution: Intel's Core i7 Processor Complete Review - Processors 104

Nehalem Revolution: Intel's Core i7 Processor Complete Review - Processors 105

Nehalem Revolution: Intel's Core i7 Processor Complete Review - Processors 106

Nehalem Revolution: Intel's Core i7 Processor Complete Review - Processors 107

Nehalem Revolution: Intel's Core i7 Processor Complete Review - Processors 108

Nehalem Revolution: Intel's Core i7 Processor Complete Review - Processors 109

Nehalem Revolution: Intel's Core i7 Processor Complete Review - Processors 110

The Intel Nehalem-based Core i7 processors are pretty dominant in the entire series of PCMark Vantage tests.  With the overall score the new Core i7-965 EE is 13% faster than the QX9770 but the majority of that difference is seen in the gaming test result.  The Core 2 QX9770 is actually still beating out the Core i7-940 and i7-920 in results like the Communications, Music and Memories tests indicating that Nehalem really isn’t offering a ton of additional performance for everyday computing. 

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