Raidur
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And Jenny, the whole reason i7 shows goodness at low resolutions (I believe) is because the GPU bottleneck is released, as we have talked about before. The 5870 is nearly the same as a 4870x2 and we've seen that Phenom II is enough for that.
BUT, as I just said, the 5970 was benched on too high of a resolution, keeping on that GPU bottleneck. I see those benches no different than a single 5870 on say.. ~1680x1050.
We see that the i7 performs the same as the Phenom II with i7 on a much lower ghz, showing us the i7 still has a lot of room for extra GPU power.
I also wouldn't call .1-1% FPS increase a win. I'd call it about even with that setup and those settings.
BUT, as I just said, the 5970 was benched on too high of a resolution, keeping on that GPU bottleneck. I see those benches no different than a single 5870 on say.. ~1680x1050.
We see that the i7 performs the same as the Phenom II with i7 on a much lower ghz, showing us the i7 still has a lot of room for extra GPU power.
I also wouldn't call .1-1% FPS increase a win. I'd call it about even with that setup and those settings.