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Intel Harpertown (Penryn) Quad CPUs Benchmarked

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the we-have-the-technology dept.

unts writes "The Intel Developer Forum is currently running in San Francisco, and Intel is showing off the up-coming Harpertown processors based on the Penryn core. HEXUS got hands on with a test system and ran some performance tests: 'Harpertown is a better quad-core processor than Clovertown: it's as simple as that. More L2 cache will gobble-up larger application data-sets and a higher FSB, on select models, will ensure that per-CPU bandwidth is less of a concern.'"

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  1. Re:Yarr. by shawnce · · Score: 1, Redundant

    This is the "tick" to be followed by next years "tock"... the same basic core in a new process (45nm, which allows more room for cache, etc.) followed by next years new core that leverages the smaller process (45nm). In other words it has a "familiar ring" because it is essentially the same core. In 2008 (late likely) we will get on board memory controller... which doesn't have such a "familiar ring".

    http://www.intel.com/technology/magazine/computing/cadence-1006.htm