CORE Or Boost? AMD's And Intel's Turbo Features Dissected
Features
By
Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos
published
Intel arms its Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs with Turbo Boost. AMD's hexa-core Phenom II X6 chips sport Turbo CORE. Both technologies dynamically increase performance based on perceived workloads and available thermal headroom. Which one does the better job?
Add us as a preferred source on Google
Stay On the Cutting Edge: Get the Tom's Hardware Newsletter
Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox.
By submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.
You are now subscribed
Your newsletter sign-up was successful
An account already exists for this email address, please log in.
Subscribe to our newsletter
Benchmark Results: Synthetics
AMD’s solution delivers marginally better performance on Sandra, but the differences are almost insignificantly small.
Stay On the Cutting Edge: Get the Tom's Hardware Newsletter
Get Tom's Hardware's best news and in-depth reviews, straight to your inbox.
Current page: Benchmark Results: Synthetics
Prev Page Test Setup And Benchmarks Next Page Benchmark Results: 3DMark And PCMark Vantage