Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 Quad-Core Benchmarks

Slimpickin writes "Intel gave access to quad-core Kentsfield-based systems to select members of the press at IDF. The embargo has been lifted on a preview of performance numbers with the new 2.66GHz Core 2 Extreme QX6700 processor. HotHardware showcases Intel quad-core performance from a few different angles, from digital video processing and encoding, to 3D modeling and rendering, along with a few of the more standard benchmarks. the new Intel quad-core puts up performance numbers, depending on the application, at nearly double the performance of a 2.93GHz Core 2 Duo processor based system. Core 2 Quad will also drop right into existing motherboards that are compatible with the Core 2 processor line."

Comments

Already tested: Two Quad-Cores in a Mac Pro, makin

[chriss]

A few weeks ago Anandtech already tried to plug two 2.4 GHz Quad-Core Clovertons (Xeons) samples into the new Mac Pro featuring two LGA-771 sockets. Worked like a charm, a nice eight core machine. And since dual socket motherboards are quite expensive, the Mac Pro might even be a cheap version.

Re:ExtremeTech has more benchmarks

[mikemuch]

Well that linking format didnt' work: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2021888 ,00.asp

Re:Time to refine operating systems...

[Jeff DeMaagd]

So why does an app or a library have to care how many CPUs or cores the PC has? Surely that's the job of the OS?

Yes and no. Programs can split the hard work across several threads and all of those threads will be managed by the task scheduler regardless of how many cores there are. The hard part is making an algorithm that can split the heavy processing work to multiple threads, that threading has to be programmed. If the program has all the hard work in one thread, then it's not going to use more than 100% of one CPU, 50% each of two CPUs, etc.