Northwood/Brookdale Benchmarks (correction)

From <b><A HREF="http://www.aceshardware.com" target="_new">Ace's Hardware</A></b>
<font color=red>Thanks to Florian and Palm for writing in about these <b><A HREF="http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/740/index.html" target="_new">Northwood and Brookdale benchmarks (German)</A></b> published by tecChannel.de. As you know, Northwood is the 0.13-micron Pentium 4, which also uses a new package, <b><font color=blue>mPGA-478</b></font color=blue>. The smaller Northwood Pentium 4 should run faster and cost less to produce due to its smaller size. Interestingly, the chip is said to contain the same amount of cache as Willamette, which means an 8 KB L1 (D-CACHE) and a 256 KB L2.

The review includes a number of benchmarks of a 1.5 GHz Northwood coupled with the Brookdale chipset and PC133 SDRAM. Unfortunately, the limited memory interface does not seem to play to the chip's advantages, as it performs rather poorly (generally about the speed of a 1 GHz Pentium III) and falls behind the 0.18-micron 1.5 GHz Pentium 4, which is paired with the i850 chipset. The Northwood/Brookdale/PC133 combination is roughly 10% slower than an equivalently clocked Pentium 4 with PC800 DRDRAM in most benchmarks. Will Brookdale be a success given this level of performance? If the price is right, perhaps. As Northwood's introduction draws closer, we should see more results with faster memory, like PC800 DRDRAM and PC2100 DDR SDRAM.</font color=red>

<b>Edit</b>
<b><A HREF="http://www.aceshardware.com/" target="_new">Ace's Hardware</A></b> has put up a correction on this article. It's actually is <font color=blue>Willamette Pentium 4</font color=blue> core in new mPGA-478 packaging.


Good or Bad have no meaning at all, depends on what your point of view is.

Northwood isn't 256kb i think he got his hands a P4 Celeron. Northwood should have 512kb. Also VIA DDR chipset should be out.

Nice Intel and AMD users get a Cookie.... Yummy

Doesn't the current P4 have L1 20kb ???

Nice Intel and AMD users get a Cookie.... Yummy

OEM builders do have northwoods, and we also have brookdale.

WE also signed NDA, and forbidden to post benchmarks.

Presumptive, aren't we...

-Raystonn

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Tom Pabst stated that he had a "1.7 GHz Pentium 4 with Willamete core" the german site appears to have a slower version of what THG has.

btw, get a load of the ancient benchmarking software they are using!

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nice to see you back.
the cpu forum has been lacking logic and rational thought.
and the trolls have been extra feisty.

AMD chips run hot. The world is getting hotter. Therefore, AMD is causing Global Warming!

Raystonn has been playing "good cop" to his friends' "bad cop," or more accurately rational spin vs irrational spin. Kidding aside, there is nothing wrong to champion your employer's cause (in fact I think it is natural) as long as you do it by rational argument and solid data. Kudos to Raystonn who consistently delivers that. It's indeed nice to see him back.

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It appears that it actually is <b><font color=blue>Willamette Pentium 4 core</b></font color=blue> not a <b><font color=blue>Northwood</b></font color=blue> (<b><A HREF="http://www.aceshardware.com" target="_new">Ace's</A></b> and <b><A HREF="http://www.tecchannel.de/hardware/740/index.html" target="_new">the German site</A></b> had corrected this article).
>><b>The original site responsible for the review has published a correction indicating the chip is indeed a standard Willamette Pentium 4 in the new mPGA-478 packaging and not a true Northwood. This stands to explain a great many things, such as the smaller (256KB) L2 cache.</b><<

Good or Bad have no meaning at all, depends on what your point of view is.

moo

you do not strengthen the weak by weakening the strong

Good call Raystonn,

Ok, now about OEM's releasing "Intel Confidential" chips.

Whats Intels stance on slipping a site like THG a ES chip?

As you can clearly see on the pic "Intel Confidential" is printed on top. I feel it is a violation of NDA and should be punishable.

This article was incorect from the start and could possibly been posted to mislead people.