Intel's Penryn Benchmarked

Steve Kerrison writes "Intel's keen to show off its up-coming 45nm Penryn Core 2 CPU. HEXUS had some hands on time with the new processor to get an idea of how well it will perform once its released: 'Intel's new 45nm Penryn core adds more than just a clock and FSB hike, so much so that even a dual-core Penryn is able to beat out a quad-core QX6800 under certain circumstances.'"

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Re:Always Suspicious of These

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The same benchmarks and "pre-configured" tests were run by Intel when the Conroe was first introduced. AMD fanboi's all gathered together to say the same garbage about the tests and later ended up finding out that benchmarks were probably higher than Intel's supposed "fake" tests.

After the smoke cleared and Intel's tail lights were no longer visible, they gathered together again to say, "Well.. floating points, memory bandwidth and real-time memory hogging applications are all that matter nowadays anyway."

What will the excuse be this time when Intel lies about benchmarks that they rigged, only to find out the lie was... the benchmarks were low.