Monday, March 10th 2008
Early Intel Nehalem Performance Projections Leaked
A leaked PDF from Sun Microsystems' website (which has now been removed) suggests that Intel could have something quite impressive up its sleeve with its upcoming Nehalem processor. The processor was already rumoured to feature three channels of DDR3 memory per core compared to two channels of DDR2 per core on AMD's Barcelona and upcoming Shanghai CPUs, and it seems that could give the Nehalem quite a performance boost. Extrapolated figures from ZDNet based on data in the slide are shown in the graph below, and as you can see, the Nehalem on average scores twice as highly as a 2.3GHz Barcelona and almost 40% better than a 2.8GHz Shanghai in SPEC CPU tests. As always with benchmarks on unreleased hardware it's important to remember that the data may not be accurate and synthetic benchmarks don't always reflect real-world performance, but if these are at all reliable then Intel's next generation of processors could be a huge leap forward.
Source:
ZDNet
15 Comments on Early Intel Nehalem Performance Projections Leaked
Nehalem: 163FP/176INT
Shanghai: 121FP/123INT
Nehalem wins by 30-40%. What "2 points or less" are you talking about?Only MP Nehalem will use quadchannel FB-DIMMs, DP and lower are dual/trichannel DDR3.
server version gets tri and quadchannel not sure about quadchannel its more for FB dimm
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nvm :P
Nehalem for the win :)
and nehalem comes in 3 socket types