Right away we see a healthy 7.5% performance increase in the 3Dmark Vantage CPU test when comparing the new Core i7 920 (2.66GHz) processor to the Core 2 Quad Q9650 (3.00GHz), which is obviously very ...

Clearly moving to an on-die memory controller has paid dividends as the Core i7 920 squeezed out a memory bandwidth of 17GB/s in SiSoftware Sandra using nothing more than DDR3 memory running at ...