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Intel Prescott Released

Posted by Hemos on from the yet-another-CPU dept.

daemonslayer writes "The nondisclosure agreement on Intel's long awaited new Pentium 4, codenamed Prescott, has just been lifted. So can it beat its predecessor, the Northwood? Find out at Anandtech, Tom's Hardware, or any of the other thousand review sites." Or HotHardware, PC Magazine, XBitLabs, or HardOCP. Basically, looks like it's faster, but still not the fastest in all areas. Tide goes in, tide goes out.

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  1. Increased cache latency. by eddy · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The most interesting characteristic of these new P4's is IMHO:"

    "On the other hand, Prescott is looking at some massive increases in latency, the access latency for the Level 1 cache has quadrupled, and the Level 2 cache accesses are approximately 50% slower." -- Lost Circuits

    Intel better ramp up that clock and/or have everyone optimizing for SSE3 if they want to dominate the benchmarks.

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  2. Prescott will be like the P4 by gumbysworld · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Prescott will be like the P4. It will be slow in the begining as they milk every mhz stepping they can but will slow start to shine when they pump up the MHZ.

    Its a shame but that is how it goes and went with the P4 it need more speed to be able to show it true worth.

    It would be nice if they said screw it and just released it a 4.0

  3. What market is it for? by MountainMan101 · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You have to ask the question!

    With the Athlon 64, IA64 and G5 vying for the 64bit market, and Athlon offering native supports of 32-bit binaries. Why would anyone want a new series of Pentium 4E?

    Is Intel feeling that Athlon may be about to make leaps and bounds in the small business/desktop market?