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

Games

3D benchmarks continued – games.

The four extra threads give a slight advantage to Gulftown over Core i7. As shown in the simulation of particle effects in the Source engine, some parts of the game code can be parallelized with good effect. But Left4Dead based on the same engine clearly shows that this is of little help in gaming – the number of frames per second is determined by the rest of the code, unfortunately most often single- or dual-threaded. The LGA1366 processors’ low score on Left4Dead is an anomaly resulting from an error in the Nvidia drivers and does not occur any more with the latest driver versions.