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Quick and Dirty Penryn Benchmarks

Posted by kdawson on from the they-don't-remember-quick-they-just-remembr-dirty dept.

An anonymous reader writes "So Intel has their quad-core Penryn processors all set and ready to launch in November. There are benchmarks for the dual-core Wolfdale all over the place, but this seems to be the first article to put the quad-core Yorkfield to the test. It looks like the Yorkfield is only about 7-8% faster than the Kentsfield with similar clock speeds and front-side bus."

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  1. End of CPU hype .. for now by postmortem · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    No great improvements in speed in next few yrs .. remember the Pentium 4 stagnation (never gone to 4GHz, didn't release more than one model in 6 months, etc.)

    And of course.. 4 core CPU has no use at homes unless you are content creator. I'm software engineer, I don't think that any of my colleagues I work with knows how to write app that will take advantage of 2 cores; let alone 4.

    Conclusion? 4 cores right now need much software support.