iXBT Labs are now on their 6th part of their exploration of the various features present in todays CPUs.  This particular article shows how rendering performance scales with CPU speed along with some scientific benchmarks and even 3D gaming performance.  There are links to all of their previous articles in this series that you can follow to catch up on any of the benchmarks you might have missed.

“We proceed with our series of articles devoted to analyzing performance of modern CPUs in real applications and finding out the effect of processor features. This part touches upon the previously unexplored topic: the effect of core clock rates on performance.”

Here are some more Processor articles from around the web:

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