With the Core i7 990 X Intel has a new flagship in its portfolio. Therefore they decided to increase the multiplyer by one step which results in a clock speed of 3.46 GHz. Thanks to this CPUs six cores and twelve threads one can expect it to get the performance crown.

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