Intels recent Core i7 CPUs promise plenty of processing power whereby the new Nehalem micro architecture brought some very basic changes. Meanwhile there is already the second pile of i7 CPUs hitting the stores with the 950 and 975 XE. This was reason enough for us to update our benchmark lists and also add the results of the Core i7 940.

How Intels recent Nehalem Core i7 CPUs perform in our benchmarking parcours, that's what we're going to show you on the following pages.