Gaming Performance

We have already mentioned several times that Core i7 is not very well suited for gaming. Nevertheless, things are not as bad as you may think. CPU on Nehalem microarchitecture falls behind quad-core processors from Core 2 family only in several games. Overall, Core i7 and Core 2 Quad perform quite comparably.

By the way, I have to say that developers are not rushing to optimize their games for multi-core processor architectures. We are constantly updating our list of gaming benchmarks looking for optimizations like that, however, nothing changes too much. Even the newest 3D shooters, such as Crysis WAREHEAD or Far Cry 2 work best of all on dual-core processors. Therefore, it still doesn’t make sense to put a quad-core CPU into a gaming system.