Benchmark Results: 3DMark And PCMark Vantage
3DMark Vantage
Predictably, both the 2010 processor and graphics card have significantly more firepower than their 2007 counterparts. The overall 3DMark Vantage score basically doubles, while the GPU score shows a 2.5x increase at entry-level and a 4.5x increase at high-quality.
PCMark Vantage
Memory throughput seems to have increased by 2.2x, as well, reflecting the much faster cache/memory architecture of the Core i7’s integrated dual-channel DDR3 controller. Overall, PCMark returns a 2.3x performance increase between the 2007 machine and the 2010 system. Not bad!
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I hope to get another year out of my E8400 O/C 3.6. Want to wait for the next offering from AMD and Intel. Should be interesting.
sorry, this comparison is near useless as you guys fail to break down what affected the performance more. perhaps it is the CPU. or was that SSD? your article does not answer that question. to bad...
The question for those who are making a "gradual upgrade/switch" is:
What component to buy next? Will the new HD5870 give me a bigger boost than an SSD? These components can be used in both systems and don't require full mobo/cpu/ram upgrade... Kind of like that power supply you guys used for both systems.
q9650 on p35 board + gtx280, gaming @1680x1050, dont see any reason for upgrade. Not even upcomming radeon 6xxx... maybe someting after that. Pcie 1.1 does not seem to be a bottleneck either.
All that becaue of current console generation I guess...
We see Moore's Law fails to hold in the comparison. 774 mil transistors in the i7-870 vs. 582 mil in the QX6700. CPU performance also clearly less than doubled over those 3 years...
I had a Core 2 Duo E6750 OC 3.2 and an Nvidia 8800 GTX that I built back in early August 2007. This year I finally started having performance issues with Mass Effect 2 (I'm just going to ignore Crysis), and decided to upgrade the GPU for a GTX 460. Maybe next year I'll upgrade my CPU, but with the cost of a new motherboard, 4-6GB of memory, and an i7, it just isn't worth it yet.
Who upgrades an entire computer anymore? At least give a comparison benchmark using the same video card.
No way e8600 ddr3 1333 cl.8 8gb's x48 full 16x on both vid/cards two wd/vr's two 4850 1gb ea. 256bit ea.gddr3 dx10.1 wei of 7.3 why?
You're comparing quad to dual core CPUs? Seems a bit unfair...
You're comparing quad to dual core CPUs? Seems a bit unfair...
Both the CPU's in the article are Quad Core.
Thanks for the article, this question has been on my mind a lot lately. I have a Q6600/8GB RAM workstation that I've been debating upgrading for a while. I've done the video card and ssd thing and am now debating leaving it at that for a while or taking the plunge for an i7 platform (expensive with new MB/CPU/RAM).
I've been running my rig *E4300,DG965RY,2GB DDR2 800+ Mhz,xfx 7600GT* for just a lil' more than 3 years...upgrading to a maximus III formula w/ an i5... i made a dual core run for this long...i think its time for an upgrade plus CAD has become sluggish with the newer release. Its an upgrade ALRIGHT, just not trying to burn a hole in my wallet
lol, and i am making a new system around 2007 era. gts250, quad or c2d e7500 oc'd of course. xms rams. and i know for what i want, it will give me that, plus i can upgrade to gtx460 anytime. and i think this setup will last me 1 to 2 years easily and it costs near 500$ with lcd (300$=mobo,proc & gpu). So i am not moved by this article or the technology in forums. i don't need to game on 1080p resolutions.
Why 8800GTS 320M?8800GTX 768M in a 2007's top gig makes more sense...
And of course u can overclock the qx6700 to great clocks and narrow the performance diference
Great article, this is really what I appriciate with Tom's Hardware :-)
The 320MB 8800 GTS is a joke. I lost almost all interest in this article when I first saw that "320MB". Really bad choice. I am expecting much more from professional reviewers.
@grass, Gradual Upgrade: This will be answered in a separate article.
@yannigr: We didn't have too many suitable cards from 2007 available for this review. The 8800GTS isn't perfect, but representative.
Thanks for your feedback!
Patrick
I would have liked to see it broken down a bit more in the conclusion, as far as CPU/GPU balance, but what I pulled from it is that there's still no reason to upgrade my core2Quad Q9550 until I get more graphics horsepower than a single non-overclocked HD5850. Especially if I use ATI, which seems to be a little less dependent upon CPU.
I still own a Dell Dimension 8200 P4 3.06Ghz from 2001 and doing great with it. I'm waiting for Intel's next 2 o generations to see a wow effect.
Firstly, not surprising although I suppose it's good to see a real comparison between CPUs
However! Why wouldn't you switch the GPUs around to compare?? GPUs are easy replacements, whereas going from one CPU to another is a complete PC overhaul. Many people with the older system would definitely consider a simple GPU upgrade over a new PC if it's going to give good performance. I wish you had benched that in this article.