Intel Core i5, Core i7 800 Processors and P55 Express

Name: Intel Core i5, Core i7 800 Processors and P55 Express - Page 13
Brand: Intel

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, September 07, 2009, 11:59 PM EDT

In our custom WinRAR x64 benchmark, we take a directory loaded with two hundred, 12.1 megapixel image files and compress them into a single archive using the default WinRAR compression scheme. The length of time it took each system to save the completed archive is represented in the graph below.

WinRAR x64 v3.9 Benchmark

Multi-Threaded File Compression Performance

The new Core i7 870 and Core i5 750 outpaced the Core 2 Quad and Phenom II-based systems in our WinRAR benchmark, but the socket 1366 Core i7s finished out in front, for the most part. The Core i7 870 was actually able to pull ahead of the Core i7 920 when installed in Gigabyte's P55-UD6.

VSO Image Resizer

Batch Image Processing

For this next test, we use the VSO Image Resizer utility to convert two hundred, 12.1 megapixel image files copied directly from a digital SLR camera to compressed, 640x480 JPGs, suitable for the web. We used the Lanczos filtering method available within the application, which is slower, but offers higher quality than most other methods.

The performance trend reported by the VSO Image Resizer benchmark looks much like WinRAR's above. The new Core i7 870 finishes near the top, trailing only the Core i7 975 and the Core i5 750 falls in line between the Core 2 Q9650 and Core i7 920.

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Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com