DarthBrady
09-11-2006, 10:07 AM
This is Huge.. Forget about Intel's Core-Duo, Quad Core is on the Way!!:D
Read this, Courtesy of Digg.com and tgdaily.com:
Culver City (CA) - Intel's first quad-core processor "Kentsfield" has found its way into the Tom's Hardware test lab. Several weeks before Intel will provide evaluation processors to the press, Tom's Hardware was able to obtain a qualification sample: The quad-core was sent through the entire test parcours and showed impressive performance.
Details about the chip have been scarce. So far, Intel has declined to release specifications and performance data, but industry sources recently indicated that the processor will be clocked with 2.67 GHz and run on a 1066 MHz FSB. Since the CPU combines two Conroe dual-core chips, the chip will carry 2 x 4 MB L2 cache; Kentsfield will be a Conroe "drop-in" chip and work with the 965 and 975 series chipsets on today's Core 2 Duo motherboards
Kentsfield easily shattered previous benchmarks records and highlighted its horsepower especially in threaded applications such as audio and video processing. The chip was able to set new record levels in traditional benchmarks such as 3DMark 05 and 3DMark 06 as well. Overall, Kentsfield turned out to be about twice as fast as the Pentium EE 965, while consuming about the same power. And while power consumption is up significantly from the Core 2 Extreme, the chip still undercuts the Pentium EE 840.
This is just a protype chip, but its final versions released are gonna rock your PC! with 8MB of Level 2 Cache memory, its gonna be FAST. I cant wait! with this, and a DirectX10 video card when it comes out, is gonna take gaming to a new level:D
Read this, Courtesy of Digg.com and tgdaily.com:
Culver City (CA) - Intel's first quad-core processor "Kentsfield" has found its way into the Tom's Hardware test lab. Several weeks before Intel will provide evaluation processors to the press, Tom's Hardware was able to obtain a qualification sample: The quad-core was sent through the entire test parcours and showed impressive performance.
Details about the chip have been scarce. So far, Intel has declined to release specifications and performance data, but industry sources recently indicated that the processor will be clocked with 2.67 GHz and run on a 1066 MHz FSB. Since the CPU combines two Conroe dual-core chips, the chip will carry 2 x 4 MB L2 cache; Kentsfield will be a Conroe "drop-in" chip and work with the 965 and 975 series chipsets on today's Core 2 Duo motherboards
Kentsfield easily shattered previous benchmarks records and highlighted its horsepower especially in threaded applications such as audio and video processing. The chip was able to set new record levels in traditional benchmarks such as 3DMark 05 and 3DMark 06 as well. Overall, Kentsfield turned out to be about twice as fast as the Pentium EE 965, while consuming about the same power. And while power consumption is up significantly from the Core 2 Extreme, the chip still undercuts the Pentium EE 840.
This is just a protype chip, but its final versions released are gonna rock your PC! with 8MB of Level 2 Cache memory, its gonna be FAST. I cant wait! with this, and a DirectX10 video card when it comes out, is gonna take gaming to a new level:D