Intel Itanium 2 Benchmarks

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday May 29, 2002 @01:01AM from the faster-and-faster-she-goes dept.

Pablo writes "Over at VR-Zone we saw some interesting benchmarks of the upcoming Intel Itanium 2 processor codenamed McKinley that is on schedule to be launched during second half of this year. With a faster 3MB on-die L3 cache, 6 instructions/cycle and 6.4GB/s of bandwidth, it is poised to perform at 1.5-2x of the current Itanium processor. There is an overview of how the Intel Itanium 2 at 1Ghz clock frequency will perform against the current Itanium 800Mhz and Sun's Ultra Sparc III RISC processor."

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It better be quicker by Anonymous Coward · 2002-05-29 01:10 · Score: 0, Troll

This is the first chip that they've unlocked the die-control on. The chips in the last three series not including server models are set to run with restrictions to prevent overheating even with a fan on them. However, because of the new molex composite, there's less of a concern with stress fractures because of improper channeling of the heat conduits. So it'll actually run even faster than the benchmarks let on once out of beta.