Intel P45: The New Chipset Lacks Progress

Synthetic Benchmarks

For some reason, the P45 seems to do well in 3DMark06.

Although the memory speed remained at DDR2-800 for all platforms except X48, the P45 seems to have some advantages on paper. However, as you could see on the previous pages, the advantage is not there in real life. The same applies to the better memory throughput of X48 with DDR3-1066: it appears to be faster, but with real applications, it is not.