With the 980 X Intel shows it's first overworked high-end Nehalem based desktop CPU. What they simply want to do is to raise the performance bar even higher than it already is. Thanks to it's scalable design the 980 X comes with six physical cores and twelve threads. Futhermore it is also equipped with the turbo technology which is able to adjust clock frequencies.

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.