Intel Core i9 (Gulftown) - 6 cores, 32 nm: hands-on review 

Synthetic tests – 3DMarks

And finally, what probably most readers pay attention to – 3D graphics tests. As usual, we started with 3DMark06.

You did not expect anything else, did you? When generating three-dimensional graphics, the two additional cores have virtually no impact on the performance. On physics and artificial intelligence benchmarks, the scores are better, but they too do not scale linearly with the number of threads.

Then, we measured performance using 3DMark Vantage.

Gulftown’s score on physics and AI tests is impressive, but its weight in the final result is only 0.15. In real games, the gain with a multi-threading processor is even smaller.