Conclusion, new core i5/i7 work terribly under Linux. Least that's the only conclusion I can draw compared to everything I read at Anandtech.
Here's their main conclusion:
"I'll start this conclusion with what AMD must do in response to Lynnfield. The Core i5 750 is a great processor at $196, in fact, it's the best quad-core CPU you can buy at that price today. In nearly every case it's faster than AMD's Phenom II X4 965 BE, despite the AMD processor costing almost another $50." (...) "The Core i7 870 gets close enough to the Core i7 975 that I'm having a hard time justifying the LGA-1366 platform at all."
In short, the results I'm seeing here do not make sense. There's not a single case of the many, many Windows benchmarks where the i5 would lose to an triple-core processor.
Here's their main conclusion:
"I'll start this conclusion with what AMD must do in response to Lynnfield. The Core i5 750 is a great processor at $196, in fact, it's the best quad-core CPU you can buy at that price today. In nearly every case it's faster than AMD's Phenom II X4 965 BE, despite the AMD processor costing almost another $50." (...) "The Core i7 870 gets close enough to the Core i7 975 that I'm having a hard time justifying the LGA-1366 platform at all."
In short, the results I'm seeing here do not make sense. There's not a single case of the many, many Windows benchmarks where the i5 would lose to an triple-core processor.
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