Old iMac i7 or new i5? Please quick help!!!

[onefine]

Hi all!

Please help me! Tomorow I will go to buy iMac. There are two options from which I must choose.

1. Option:
2010 iMac 27" Core i7 2.93GHz
ATI Radeon HD 5750 s pamäťou 1GB GDDR5
prize: 1.849 €

2. Option:
new 2011 iMac 27" QuadCore i5 3.1GHz
AMD Radeon HD 6970M s pamäťou 1GB GDDR5
1.899 €

Which one is better?? Which one to choose??

Thax for response

 

[Hellhammer]

Option #2 is faster.

 

[Scorecard]

Option 2 is definitely better

 

[PeckhamBog]

The new Sandy Bridge architecture gives a much better performance than last year's model so for an extra €50 seems a very good deal.

Macworld put your 2011 machine through its Speedmark 6.5 testing suite which produced the table shown on the link below;

http://cdn.macrumors.com/article/2011/05/04/100046-imac_2011_speedmark.jpg

 

[trevolly]

I bought a 3.1GHz i5 yesterday 1GB gfx. I've been really really impressed with it - put on Starcraft II and it runs with everything on max and 2560 x 1440.

 

[onefine]

Thx all, so I go for new 2011 i5 iMac ))

 

[Jason Beck]

Jealous!

 

[onefine]

So I am now so happy with my new iMac i5 3,1 GHz )))) Thx for advice!

 

[The-Pro]

wouldnt the 2010 be quicker for multithreaded tasks because the i7 has hyper threading but the i5 dosnt?