Performance

General Performance

Looks like our concerns about insufficiently fast memory controller in Lynnfield processors were actually unjustified. In terms of actual performance, Core i7-870 and Core i5-750 are excellent solutions. In absolutely all scenarios even the junior newcomer without Hyper-Threading technology support is faster than Core 2 Quad and faster than the competing Phenom II processors.

As for the performance comparison between Lynnfield and Bloomfield, the results here are not so unambiguous, but nevertheless, Core i7-870 and Core i5-750 both look very good performing fast in E-Learning and 3D patterns and only falling behind the “senior” Intel platform during video content processing.