After teasing us with a little close-up of Foxconn's X58 motherboard, the guys @ Tom's Hardware have decided that something a little more 'relevant' is required and have given out some results of the Q4-bound 2.93 GHz-clocked Bloomfield CPU.
Put into a system consisting of a X58 motherboard (probably Foxconn's), 2GB of DDR3-1600 Crucial Ballistix memory (not taking advantage of triple-channel support unfortunately), a 750GB Seagate hard drive and an AMD Radeon HD 4850, the upcoming quad-core LGA1366 Bloomfield CPU scored 23% more than a Core 2 Extreme QX6800 (also at 2.93 GHz) in 3DMark06's CPU bench. Additional tests, which included comparisons with AMD processors like the Athlon FX-74 (3.0 GHz) and the Phenom X4 9850 BE, 9950 BE only confirmed Bloomfield's dominance but, that was expected. Hopefully, AMD's 45nm Phenoms will but up a good fight yet, either way, we'll be getting some nice, fast quads from Intel later this year. Not that we don't need the competition.
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