Comments for: Intel talks 45nm chips, Larrabee at IDF Beijing

#6. Posted at 10:26 PM on Apr 16th 2007

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MadManOriginal

optimized for Intel's upcoming SSE4 instruction set

mhmm...how typical are those results, and how much does Penryn differ from Conroe on non-SSE4 apps? Much more relevant imo.

# There's * all of them. Maybe they all are unreleased vers... : trintron (#54) «

#54, The * most likely is for the trademark notices, as the... : Thorburn (#56) «

#1. Posted at 08:53 PM on Apr 16th 2007

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A_Pickle

Wow. AMD uh... I wish you well...

#1, *shrugs*..they're claiming similar improvements for their ba... : d2brothe (#3) «

#3, There's also a little thing about shareholders holding th... : indeego (#4) «

#4, True, but thats not to say there isn't wiggle room....... : d2brothe (#5) «

#3, It's gonna be a good time to upgrade this fall. Nothing l... : Sargent Duck (#7) «

#7, Last I heard, the 45nm parts were aimed at Q1 2008 - a... : Mithent (#18) «

#18, They are Q4 2007. : Shintai (#19) «

#3, Unless I missed something, their claims for Barcelona are... : blastdoor (#22) «

#22, Barcelona has a number of architectural improvements. ... : shank15217 (#48) «

#48, These benchmarks aren't bogus...they're just...opti... : d2brothe (#49) «

#49, bigger cache, faster divider and a faster ss4 en... : shank15217 (#53) «

#53, They are very much real, for the simple fact ... : Thorburn (#55) «

#8. Posted at 10:51 PM on Apr 16th 2007

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Gungir

Got to love the name "Skulltrail" for a multi-core, enthusiast/gamer-targeted architecture. Intel doesn't mince words on that one. Seems odd given that Quad FX was AMD's (temporary) answer to C2D.

#8, Heh, indeed. Although I hope they take a different route fro... : d2brothe (#9) «

#9, That might be valuable it might not. You'd have to determ... : MadManOriginal (#10) «

#10, True, I suppose even, if the platform accepted standar... : d2brothe (#51) «

#8, leor, leor, start saving for that Skulltrail platform! :) : Flying Fox (#11) «

#11, words of wisdom ;-) : DrDillyBar (#14) «

#8, The problem is 4x4 has move from temp to permant. In other w... : Shintai (#12) «

#12, No worries, give the concept a couple generations of abys... : wilreichert (#15) «

#15, IMO there's nothing wrong with the concept of 4x4, it'... : poulpy (#16) «

#12, Did you just way something negative about intel? /me died e... : d0g_p00p (#37) «

#37, You need a better understanding of what synthetic is. A... : Shintai (#38) «

#38, *Imagines a golden sunset, with Shintai and D0g_p00... : wierdo (#43) «

#43, Hahahaa :P : Shintai (#44) «

#12, Actually, if this platform is new and can do non-FB-DIMM ... : Flying Fox (#40) «

#8, Yeah, it reminds me of Skullcandy headphones : d0g_p00p (#36) «

#13. Posted at 01:04 AM on Apr 17th 2007, Edited at 04:31 AM on Apr 17th 2007

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Shintai

Thats some pretty badass gaming numbers. More benchmarks than we ever seen with Barcelona!

http://techgage.com/articles/intel/beijing_idf_07/idf_beijing_01.jpg

211% faster in DiVX
41% faster in HL2
25% faster Cinebench
20% faster MainConcept H.264 Encoding
15% faster Photoshop CS2

Note its a 2.93Ghz/1066FSB Quadcore vs 3.33Ghz/1333FSB Quadcore.
And rumour has it the XE chip will be a 11x333=3.66Ghz.

#13, Intel and AMD have always communicated in very different way... : poulpy (#17) «

#17, The DiVX I assume is a SSE4 optimized one. : Shintai (#20) «

#20, Ah yeah of course, silly me. : poulpy (#21) «

# When exactly this happened? Intel weren't tight lipped... : poulpy (#26) «

#26, What about the old "hammertime"? And you usually on... : Shintai (#29) «

#26, Yes, duh...thats the point when things changed.... : d2brothe (#50) «

# I still remember MMX when Intel put out numbers that w... : Flying Fox (#39) «

#17, Looks like a math error, isn't that 111%? : wierdo (#42) «

#42, yes, you are right. : Shintai (#45) «

#41. Posted at 07:52 AM on Apr 17th 2007

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maroon1

#13, There is a mistake in the percentage calculation. Just check it by yourself.......

#2. Posted at 08:59 PM on Apr 16th 2007

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Krogoth

40% performance boost in gaming is probably in multi-threaded titles like Quake 4 and Supreme Commander. It is probably closer to 20-30% for single-threaded titles. The key factors are primarily increased clock speed and a greater amount of L2 cache.

#2, 40% performance boost in gaming is probably in multi-thread... : blastdoor (#23) «

# Half-Life 2 (Lost Coast, build 2707) Seems to be normal. : Shintai (#28) «

#2, Singlethreaded would be higher due to dynamic OC. : Shintai (#27) «

#27, Mobile Penryn only. : Proesterchen (#34) «

#34, Arh yes, thanks. : Shintai (#35) «