Barefeats testing of i7 vs i5

[skye12]

Was very interesting. Looks to me like the i5 is just about as fast
for most everything. I'm back to thinking about buying the i5 version.

barefeats.com

 

[admanimal]

I assume you are looking at the gaming benchmark right?

 

[Hellhammer]

Biggest difference is that the i7 has Hyper-threading so if you are using something that supports it, it'll hammer down the i5, but in games, we won't see it

 

[Sambo110]

But in a year or two, the i7 might be twice as fast or something. It's still kinda new, and not a lot of apps and hardly any/no games take advantage of it yet.