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Intel's 'Nehalem' To Launch Sooner

1:50 PM - July 24, 2008 by Tuan Nguyen
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Category : CPU
55 comments

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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Radio_Active 07/24/2008 8:09 AM
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Sweet!
Me wanna get one. Intel has really stepped it up lately.

Shadowthor 07/24/2008 8:19 AM
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Shadowthor

Looks good for anyone looking to build a new system.

cah027 07/24/2008 8:29 AM
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cah027

I might finally retire my AMD 2400+ system and build one of these with a 4870X2 :)

doomsdaydave11 07/24/2008 8:32 AM
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doomsdaydave11

:O

Anonymous 07/24/2008 8:34 AM
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gm0n3y 07/24/2008 8:34 AM
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gm0n3y

Why release it in September when its not going to actually be available until October? Is that even technically considered a release?

Shadowthor 07/24/2008 8:36 AM
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probably samples will be released during september for reviews to hype the nehalem launch. xizel1 quit spamming.

Shadow703793 07/24/2008 8:41 AM
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gm0n3y 07/24/2008 9:19 AM
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@xizel1,

Yes, I'm sure Intel is very afraid of AMD. They know that AMD is just pretending to suck badly so that they can pounce on Intel once their guard is down.

DXrick 07/24/2008 9:20 AM
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How will the triple channel DDR3 memory thing be handled? Will we start seeing 3 packs of DDR3 1G and 2G (3G and 6G total)? It wouldn't make much sense to only get 3x .5G sticks.

elerick 07/24/2008 9:21 AM
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I've got to be honest I feel both Intel and AMD, I have had a 3.8ghz Air cooled 6300 for over two years. Is it even worth my time to hope that this new chip stock 2.93 beats mine in gaming, etc? I am bored with my old stuff I want something exciting and new is this it?

cjl 07/24/2008 9:38 AM
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I'm looking forward to this :D

As soon as this is released, I'll be building a system, probably with a 4870x2.

Fadamor 07/24/2008 9:43 AM
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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.

cjl 07/24/2008 9:44 AM
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It's sooner than I was expecting, which is good enough for me.

warezme 07/24/2008 10:14 AM
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WOOHOO!, I'm ready, let me at it!!!

dragunover 07/24/2008 10:17 AM
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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.

njalterio 07/24/2008 10:21 AM
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I hope the Nehalem release lowers DDR3 prices. I want to move to Vista, but that is not happening until I have more than 2 GB of RAM.

eklipz330 07/24/2008 10:36 AM
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ddr3 prices will come down quickly...
prices for ddr3 one year ago were appalling, and they're rather decent now
they should be even better by january

thomasxstewart 07/24/2008 10:59 AM
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grieve 07/24/2008 10:59 AM
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grieve

time to sell some of the kids toys to get me some new toys... Nehalem looks promissing, 20-30% is a large gain. I was expecting something more like 8-11% with the initial processor release.

kelfen 07/24/2008 11:35 AM
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:O wow This is great news!!

Anonymous 07/24/2008 11:42 AM
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byebye fsb.....helloooooo 1 ghz overclocking

Luscious 07/25/2008 1:17 AM
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Luscious

Puttin sumthin DEELISHUS under the xmas tree this time around...

yO bABY yO bABY yO!!!

Gamecase 07/25/2008 1:32 AM
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Ohhhhh Shinny, I wonder if they will accecpt a left testical as payment? lol :P

Gamecase 07/25/2008 1:33 AM
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elbert 07/25/2008 1:43 AM
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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.

royalcrown 07/25/2008 3:03 AM
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how do you know, why don't you can it and wait ?

caamsa 07/25/2008 5:20 AM
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Wonder what the price tag will be?

fatty35 07/25/2008 5:43 AM
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I want one so bad

cjl 07/25/2008 7:07 AM
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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.

Anonymous 07/25/2008 7:28 AM
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these chips should give AMD another nosebleed!! Nice!!


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