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Originally Posted by 0utf0xZer0
Okay, I messed up, there's a few other differences too in terms of l3 cache speed, memory speed, and how turbo mood works:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/17545/2
I'd be interested in knowing how much of i5s advantage vs. AMD in a lot of gaming benchmarks is due to turbo mode, since technically that will disappear when games start using more cores. |
The extra cores won't have much benefit since most games right now are optimized mostly for dual core, but future games will probably benefit it once Quad core goes mainstream... The possible good thing about the i7 is faster encoding of video files, photo processing and other CPU intensive tasks... I don't own a i7 or i5 myself, but if I did, my games would probably run faster... but I depend on portability so...
AMD may be cheaper, but Intel already destroyed them with performance... a i5 and i7 can easily outperform a AMD... sadly...