Conclusion

In general it is particularly noticeable that on average no difference between the Core i7-3930K and Core i7-990X can be found. Therefore it doesn't matter wether you take a closer look at a single-GPU an SLI or a triple SLI setup. The Core i7-3930K and the Core i7-990X are very close to eachother. A closer look at the results we gathered lets us assume that the measurement error had more influence on the deviations which means that all the results are within the standard deviation. There is only one exception, which is the 3DMark 11 physics test. There you can see differences ranging from ten to 20 percent. The reason for this is that the GPUs don't have an influece on the results of this test. When you look at these results with gaming performance scaling in mind they are not relevant because the GPU(s) do have no influence on these scores. Furthremore 2D performance scaling we've already discussed in our launch review regarding Intels Core i7-3930K and Core i7-3960X.

What we're going to do is, we will add the corresponding benchmark results of Intels Core i7-3960X to these comparison table to see if the additional Megahertz as well as the bigger L3-Cache can make a difference. Until then we can say that that there is no difference from a gaming perspective between the Core i7-3930K and Core i7-990X.

Page 1 - Introduction / Specs	Page 5 - Crysis / Resident Evil 5
Page 2 - Test setup	Page 6 - Call of Juarez / Far Cry 2
Page 3 - 3DMark 11 / 3DMark Vantage	Page 7 - Street Fighter 4 / World in Conflict
Page 4 - Unigine Heaven / Stone Giant	Page 8 - Conclusion

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