Soleron on 15 August 2009
| Darc Requiem said: Nice link SSJ12. Intel is really on the ball. Even though the majority of the benchmarks weren't optimized for six cores it still ate the Bloomfield's lunch. The bandwidth and arithmetic tests were off the charts. |
Yeah, synthetic. That doesn't translate into performance in real-world applications. When Core 2 transitioned from DDR2 to DDR3 bandwidth readings went up by over 50%, and real performance went up by 1-2% on average and 5% at best.
Optimising for six cores in those apps won't happen overnight. It's been 3 years since the first quad-core was released and only a minority of desktop applications and games take advantage of it. It makes sense on workstations and the server, not on the vast majority of PCs.
Plus if the launch clocks are 2.4GHz then it will be owned by the 3.33GHz existing Bloomfield. Any 32nm quads will run at higher clocks than 32nm six-cores and though not faster on paper will outrun them in any desktop app.
