Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 - Entering 45nm
Results - BAPCo SYSmark 2007 Preview
Results - BAPCo SYSmark 2007 Preview
With all the new architecture enhancements and threaded optimized features of new processors, we've decided to phase is some of the newest benchmark updates as well. Retiring SYSmark 2004, we benchmark the QX9650 using the latest SYSmark 2007 Preview. However, the results here weren't as generous as SPECCPU 2000, although they are telling on its own as well.
The overall results show that the QX9650 and QX6850 are both equally matched, which seems to indicate that the benchmark isn't optimized for SSE4. If you look at the breakdown scores, the Video Creation test shows no improvement over the QX6850. There was also no real gain (and even a minute loss) in the E-Learning workloads. The QX9650 did however, manage to gain a lead in both Productivity and 3D segments of the benchmark, once again thanks to its larger L2 cache and overall architecture improvements rather than specific technology support.