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Intel's 'Nehalem' To Launch Sooner
Originally scheduled to launch in November or December this year, Intel’s Nehalem-based Bloomfield processors will now launch in September along with X58 chipsets, sources at motherboard makers revealed. However, the sources pointed out that CPUs and motherboards will not officially appear in the channel until early October.
We took an early look at Nehalem in a quad-core configuration running at 2.93 GHz. In our very early tests, our Nehalem part performed quite impressively. It beat out the competition by fairly significant margins, proving that Intel’s architectural changes is definitely on the positive side. Our part was able to outperform equally configured systems with current processors from both AMD’s camp and Intel’s own by margins between 20 to 30 percent.
Keep in mind that Nehalem no longer uses a traditional front-side bus (FSB), and instead uses an external multiplier to control the link between CPU core, memory controller, and north-bridge.
According to several of our sources, Intel is well on its way with silicon yield, and early samples confirm this. With our own sample in house, we were able to overclock our samples by nearly 1 GHz. What are the performance figures for a quad-core Nehalem system running at nearly 4 GHz? We’ll come back with more as soon as we develop a viable suite of benchmarks to show some real-world gaming and productivity performance.
Stay tuned!
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| Fadamor : The CPU and mobos will be released in September, but they won't be "IN CHANNEL" until early October. That just means it's going to be some weeks after release before it hits all the stores in quantity. If you're near one of the distributors, you probably will be able to get one in September. |
Pretty much I'm thinking what happened with the Wolfdales.Supply/Demand is out of ratio.Anyways,I want that sexy beast.
| elbert : I wouldnt call a QX6800 a current processor and if you would have tested say against the Q9650 at 3GHz it would be at best a small increase. The only real improvement will be the 8 core Nehalem versions. |
I would say that we don't have any real performance numbers until the full test comes out.
Oh, and no, the 6800 isn't the most modern CPU. On the other hand, with both clocked at 2.93 GHz, the Nehalem was ~30% faster. 45nm (I.E. QX9650) does not run even remotely close to 30% faster per clock than 65nm. So, most of the gain has to be architectural.
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Sweet!
Me wanna get one. Intel has really stepped it up lately.