Intel Core i7 940 CPU Benchmark

After a month playing with the new Intel Core i7, here are some benchmark results I got based on comparisons between PC Marks and SuperPi 32M of 4 relatively high-end CPUs. The Core i7 940 is expected to top the results but what would be more interesting is by how much.

The rig that was lent to me by Intel had the following specs:

Intel Core i7 940 2.93GHz
3GB DDR3 RAM
NVidia GeForce 9800 GTXÂ

I then compared results with several other rigs lent to me by Intel and AMD (Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 @ 2.53GHz, AMD Phenom II 9950 X4 @ 2.6GHz and Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 2.4GHz which I own).

SuperPi 2M:
Q6600: 52 seconds
Core i7 940: 29 seconds

Super Pi 32M:
Q6600: 23 mins. 9 secs.
Core i7 940: 12 mins. 17 secs.

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With SuperPi 2M and 32M , the Core i7 940 scored between 79% to 88% better than the Q6600. The Core i7 performed better under higher stress with SuperPi 32M.

PCMarks Score
Intel Core 2 Duo E7500: 3633
Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 2.4 GHz: 3774
Intel Core i7 940 2.93GHz: 5397
AMD Phenom X4 9950 2.6GHz : 4159

With PC Marks, the Core i7 940 performed 43% better than the Q6600 and 30% better than the Phenom 9950 X4.

The Core i7 920 2.66GHz has a price tag of Php16k at PC Express so I can only imagine the 940 to go as high as Php30k (based on SRP released by Intel Philippines).

Abe Olandres

Abe is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of YugaTech with over 20 years of experience in the technology industry. He is one of the pioneers of blogging in the country and considered by many as the Father of Tech Blogging in the Philippines. He is also a technology consultant, a tech columnist with several national publications, resource speaker and mentor/advisor to several start-up companies.

https://www.yugatech.com

30 Comments

Lucien Dominick G. Tiojanco says:

16 years ago

Can’t wait for AMD’s Phenom II. I know it won’t perform anywhere as good as Intel’s Core i7 but price to performance ratio should prove favorable to AMD specially when we factor in motherboard costs.

I’m currently very, VERY content with my Compaq CQ40-107AU which lets me run all of AeriaGames MMO games like Shaiya, Twelve Sky, Shin Megami Tensei, and even Project Torque at their highest settings (except for anti-aliasing which is set anywhere from disabled to medium) at the laptop’s default 1280×800 resolution.

I hope AMD decides to further enhance their Dragon platform by creating an even more power efficient and over-clocker friendly motherboard which supports Hybrid Crossfire as either a graphic enhancing solution or as a power saving solution depending on the discrete GPU attached.
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sky says:

16 years ago

SuperPi? Use wPrime instead, it’s multi-threaded.
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Jomark Osabel says:

16 years ago

I use to immediately upgrade once a new generation intel CPU is around now I think I have to skip and wait for the next.

Its just that for the fast five years of upgrading I just barely notice any speed difference(in real word testing) specially in the field of multimedia and video production. IMHO.
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jhay says:

16 years ago

Now that’s power for a bad-ass gaming machine!
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iceman9 says:

16 years ago

well! indeed the intel i7 processor is a pretty package.
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Snow says:

16 years ago

The intel i7 looks promising. I’ll sure check on it when I upgrade my desktop pc.
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Winwab says:

16 years ago

I thought this is best best for gaming. Very cool!
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Lloyd Lopez says:

16 years ago

If only its cheap to upgrade to an i7 platform. You need atleast 2 new components (mobo & RAM) for this.

Yuga, could you use the latest version of CPU-Z to display a much more accurate info about the CPU.
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Noogy says:

16 years ago

Good benchmark data from a local expert! Imagine having one of those in your machines – best way to save time!
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Andre Marcelo-Tanner says:

16 years ago

u know you can start up a local hardware blog with all these gadgets you review
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