Intel i7 970 Review
3D Mark Vantage and Crysis Warhead
Published: 12th August 2010 | Source: Intel | Price: £680 |
3D Mark Vantage
Finally onto our gaming based tests. Obviously as we're testing the CPU and not a graphics card we'll keep it brief.
The 3D Mark CPU score follows everything we've seen on the previous two pages. The big surprise though is how the GPU score is a little higher on the 970, which therefore means the total 3D Mark score is better too. It could just be the couple of increments in the Catalyst drivers since we tested the 980, but at the very least the 970 stands shoulder to shoulder with the top-of-the-line Intel.
Crysis Warhead
As Crysis takes advantage of PhysX quite a lot, then on an ATI system you really need all the CPU power possible to help handle the many tasks the Crytek engine gives it. In keeping with the frustrating nature of Crysis Warhead the overclocked 980X actually wins out by quite a margin. We also tested Dirt 2 and Unigine, but with only a single 5870 in the system and so much CPU power available they were GPU limited and so graphs would be meaningless.
Onto the rather brief and obvious conclusion.
Most Recent Comments
I'd love one though
Cheers Tom
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Originally Posted by VonBlade
I've been waiting for this to go live so I can give you public congratulations for the overclock dude. What an epic chip. |
At least now the review is done you can turn the aircon back up from -2c and take your thermals off..eh
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Originally Posted by Seraphim401
Could the lower fps in crysis be explained by the lower QPI? |
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Originally Posted by Bungral
Does the gold award mean the best in class award has gone ? |
However, we do have this up our sleeves....
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Originally Posted by Jim
Yeah basically, because we was finding that quite often when we gave an item BIC, another one would come along two weeks later that we wish we'd given it to instead However, we do have this up our sleeves.... |
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Originally Posted by lasher
Oooooh that's not nice! |
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