Synthetic CPU and Memory Tests
SiSoft Sandra 2009 SP4
The latest version of SiSoft Sandra offers up a lot of new features including GPU performance testing and Nehalem processor support. 

Intel Core i7-980X Gulftown Hexa-core Processor Review - Processors 83

Intel Core i7-980X Gulftown Hexa-core Processor Review - Processors 84

Intel Core i7-980X Gulftown Hexa-core Processor Review - Processors 85

Intel Core i7-980X Gulftown Hexa-core Processor Review - Processors 86

Intel Core i7-980X Gulftown Hexa-core Processor Review - Processors 87

Intel Core i7-980X Gulftown Hexa-core Processor Review - Processors 88

Intel Core i7-980X Gulftown Hexa-core Processor Review - Processors 89

SiSoft was definitely one of those applications to really take full advantage of the extra computing power of the Core i7-980X.  In our CPU arithmetic tests it scales just about perfectly getting a 50% higher score in both results.  The same is seen in our integer, floating point and double precision testing on the multimedia benchmark.  The rest of the tests saw either minor (by comparison) performance gains (multi-core efficiency, cache and memory) or none at all (memory bandwidth, latency) which falls exactly where we expected it too.

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