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Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 - Entering 45nm

By Zachary Chan - 29 Oct 2007

Results - Quake 4 and F.E.A.R.

Results - Quake 4 and F.E.A.R.

Moving from synthetic gaming benchmarks to actual games, the QX9650 continues to prove that the Penryn isn't just a die-shrunk Conroe. Like AquaMark3, Quake 4 actually showed visible and tangible performance gains in both single and multi-threaded modes. In this particular game, we actually saw very impressive performance gains of more than 10fps, a gap that was previously seen between a mainstream Q6600 and the Extreme QX6850 (that's a 600MHz core frequency gap if you're taking score). Here, the QX9650 seemed to work wonders.

We don't usually use F.E.A.R. for CPU benchmarking anymore due to the fact that this game is more GPU hungry than anything, which was the main bottleneck. However, Intel seems to like this title and we decided to give it another spin for the QX9650, seeing the scores from Quake 4. Sadly, there was no noticeable performance gains here. Even with reduced graphics options, both processors registered similar scores in all resolutions.

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