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HWZ's Overall Rating: 8.5
User's Rating: N/A
THE GOOD
Consumes less or equal power compared to Intel's competing quad-cores
Excellent overclocking potential
THE BAD
Costly
Results - SPECCPU 2000 v1.3
Results - SPECCPU 2000 v1.3
In SPECCPU 2000, the Core i7-980X surprisingly lost on the peak scores for both floating point and integer to the i7-975 XE. It's a very slight margin of around 2% that could be attributed to normal variance or worse, that HyperThreading with that many threads could end up hindering its performance, which is not unheard of. The multi-user rate tests were looking good, highlighting the potential of six cores.
