Intel 32nm Gulftown tested

[ssj12]

Soleron said:

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.

It was just an engineering sample vs engineering sample. The i7 940 beat the original sample by a point or two.

Launch is expected to be 3.2GHz at minimum. What I like is that Intel will keep the earlier i7 models, with 32nm cores, so they will be even more affordable. Plus since the higher end ones still use socket LGA 1366, motherboard costs will drop.