Core i7 benchmarks!!!!

[deadrats]

for those that don't know, the Core i7 is also known as nehalem, at any rate follow the link below for some comprehensive benchmarks:

http://www.hwbox.gr/showthread.php?t=2700

the text is in greek, but the benchmarks are easily understood. unfortunately, much like i expected, it looks like intel's next cpu is more hype than performance, i had a feeling we were in for a repeat of the P4 fiasco and it looks like i was right.

can't wait to see amd's 6 core offering...

[poisondeathray]

for those that don't know, the Core i7 is also known as nehalem, at any rate follow the link below for some comprehensive benchmarks:

http://www.hwbox.gr/showthread.php?t=2700

the text is in greek, but the benchmarks are easily understood. unfortunately, much like i expected, it looks like intel's next cpu is more hype than performance, i had a feeling we were in for a repeat of the P4 fiasco and it looks like i was right.

can't wait to see amd's 6 core offering...

Non-official benchmarks have been out for weeks on Taiwanese sites, and Anandtech for months; and "official" should be published by Monday when the NDA lifts.

I completely disagree with your "P4 fiasco" comment. P4 was too hot (temperature wise), slow and sucked.

Nehalem is great for multithreaded apps, but minimal gains over a penryn in single threaded like most games.

[deadrats]

for those that don't know, the Core i7 is also known as nehalem, at any rate follow the link below for some comprehensive benchmarks:

http://www.hwbox.gr/showthread.php?t=2700

the text is in greek, but the benchmarks are easily understood. unfortunately, much like i expected, it looks like intel's next cpu is more hype than performance, i had a feeling we were in for a repeat of the P4 fiasco and it looks like i was right.

can't wait to see amd's 6 core offering...

Non-official benchmarks have been out for weeks on Taiwanese sites, and Anandtech for months; and "official" should be published by Monday when the NDA lifts.

I completely disagree with your "P4 fiasco" comment. P4 was too hot (temperature wise), slow and sucked.

Nehalem is great for multithreaded apps, but minimal gains over a penryn in single threaded like most games.

judging from the scores under procoder 3, a very well threaded video encoder, it doesn't look that much faster than a penryn quad core, especially when you consider the higher clock speeds...

[poisondeathray]

judging from the scores under procoder 3, a very well threaded video encoder, it doesn't look that much faster than a penryn quad core, especially when you consider the higher clock speeds...

I suggest you look at x264 (which scales very linearly) benchmarks in other reviews. That review you linked to is on a slightly cripped bench system having dual channel memory (instead of triple), and is a C0 revision (not retail final silicon). There has been quite some more leaked results but "official" ones will be published next week. You will ~30-40% increase for the same clockspeed for x264 which is damn impressive given the current competiton from AMD... All I am saying is well multithreaded apps get an impressive boost (But of course not 100% from the each logical core)

[greymalkin]

The Toms Hardware review seemed to show a pretty good bump in speed for the i7's vs. the Core 2 processors. I've got a dual core AMD system for the nice price and energy efficiency but the Intel offerings seem to be leaving me in the dust .

[poisondeathray]

Compiled list of links to 42 reviews:

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/03/core-i7-reviews-counting

[jagabo]

I think the Core i7 reviews look reasonably good. The big problem both Intel and AMD are facing is that few consumer oriented processes scale well with, or even need multithreading. Not all that many even need any additional CPU speed. Games and video encoding is about it.