One year after the launch of the Bloomfield based i7 processors Intel now officially presents the Lynnfield product line. Hereby they show off three new mainstream CPUs: The i7 870, the i7 860 and the i5 750. The all are entirely based on the Nehalem microarchitecture whereas a the memory controller is limited to dual-channel operation. But the most important new feature should definitely be the enhanced Turbo-Mode which is now able to increase clock speeds automatically by up to 666 MHz.

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.