Intels new core architecture

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Intel is stating up to a 40% increase in performance while a decrease up to 40% in power. If that's true, that's amazing.

No.

Pipeline Stages slightly increased from 10 to 14.
Front Side Bus improves from 667MHz to 1333MHz.

and so? are there any bench marks yet? I want to see bench marks.......

Cornoe is still not yet released, but people expect Cornoe will perform better than Yonah, and Windsor (Athlon64 x2 Rev. F).

If Conroe cannot drastically improve over P-D, then Athlon64 x2 will dominate. Conroe is the only weapon Intel prepared to fight with AMD in desktop market.

Intel does not lie on the performance of Conroe to become 40% more clock per clock to Presler.

So, most of the hardware critics say "It will be interesting to see how Cornoe fight with Windsor."

I don't trust statistics at all.
You can say 40% increase in performance and 40% decrease in power, but I mean, come on, look at the P4! How can you not make it more efficient? It reminds me of sales - 50% off, but it was so high to begin with, now it might actually be worth it...

But I can't wait for Conroe to come too. I can finally build another intel machine after waiting 6 yrs.

The major reason is that Xeon series are highly bandwidth-deficient.
For Woodcrest, employing multiple CPU to Northbridge buses and higher bandwidth per bus helps a lot.

But still K8's Direct Connect Architecture is superior.

Well, the Xeons are so far behind that this new core should bring it closer to the forefront. I don't know about 80% but i'm sure it will be a big jump.

It seems as if the server/business side of things is where they want to really get a jump on performance. AMD has and still does have a superior server chip. We'll see how Intel plays against the Opteron though.

Well, I have a 630 scotty machine and its really a good performer. Can't complain about it and it runs cool. Its still no where near as zippy as my opty machine is and that in itself, says alot for AMD considering what the clock speeds are of both.

It wouldn't be fair right now since Conroe still isn't available to the market. But if it's 40% better than Pentium D well that gives more credibility to the "20% more performance than AMD" statement cause right now X2 at most about 15% better than a pentium D(excluding gaming).

Y,finally Intel is back on track! This time on the right path. It will be interesting seeing Intel using a performance clock rather than brute force.
Untill now Intel has been taking the long way(Netburst,at first it was acceptable then the road become full of twists and turns) AMD the shortcut. Now they are both on the same straight line with AMD somewhat ahead. This year will be interesting indeed.

Nah, in 2000, you had P4's Williamettes. A few months before the Northwoods came out. I've got a 1.8Ghz P4 Williamette. Maybe it was Dec of '99.. or Dec of 2000... can't remember. AMD was still using SDRAM and P4's only had RDRAM.
anyways...

LMAO

That makes two of us man!

Don't forget PCI.

But seriously, Intel made a misstep w/ the prescott core, and going from the P3 architecture to P4. It made sense then, but giving to the lack of being able to foresee the future, they've come back nicely.

AMD sure made them rethink things - and that's good. Now w/ the performance-per-watt wars, it'll be really interesting and good for technological advances.

But I agree that they're finally getting it. Or mebbe we should say they finally got it (like a while back)... I'm glad I didn't go work in the processor business.