Since the release of Intel’s Conroe micro-architecture, the company has been making waves, massive waves. In terms of performance, Intel washed away main competitor AMD, and they have continued to do so during the past three months with the success of their Core 2 Duo and Extreme processor series.
Step aside dual-core, it is now the time of the quad-core and you better believe it. The new quad-core series consists of the Core 2 Quad Q6600 and the Core 2 Extreme QX6700. Both feature a dual 4MB L2 cache, operate on a 1066MHz FSB, and have a thermal output of 130 watts. However, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 is not scheduled for release until early next year, and so today we will be looking at the more powerful Core 2 Extreme QX6700 version, which Intel had promised to make available this month, humming along to the tune of just 2.66GHz using a cool 1.34 volts of power.
The very same technologies that made the Conroe so powerful are all included in the new Kentsfield architecture. In fact, there are no new additions, so it is merely a quad-core version of the Conroe, but of course this is hardly a bad thing. So how does the Quad Core QX6700 performs? Read on and find out.
View: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 review @ TechSpot
Step aside dual-core, it is now the time of the quad-core and you better believe it. The new quad-core series consists of the Core 2 Quad Q6600 and the Core 2 Extreme QX6700. Both feature a dual 4MB L2 cache, operate on a 1066MHz FSB, and have a thermal output of 130 watts. However, the Core 2 Quad Q6600 is not scheduled for release until early next year, and so today we will be looking at the more powerful Core 2 Extreme QX6700 version, which Intel had promised to make available this month, humming along to the tune of just 2.66GHz using a cool 1.34 volts of power.
The very same technologies that made the Conroe so powerful are all included in the new Kentsfield architecture. In fact, there are no new additions, so it is merely a quad-core version of the Conroe, but of course this is hardly a bad thing. So how does the Quad Core QX6700 performs? Read on and find out.
View: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 review @ TechSpot
Volts are not a measure of power.
Agreed. Volts = potential.
THAT's cool!
Agreed. Volts = potential.
Indeed....
Games are only starting to take advantage.
Same goes for AMD's 4X4.
If either company could figure out some sort of reverse HT, then I'd be excited.
It's cool to see how fast we went from dual to quad-core, compared to vintage singles
to dual. At least the high-end CPUs now will not be so high-end-priced after quads
take their place. Impressive, but waiting on AMD's release. :drool:
in order for their to be far greater benchmarks, the software has to be optimzed for quad core, otherwise it would just use 2 cores.
Please read the article again, as the author mentions this.
Last edited by ambiance on 02 Nov 2006 - 10:03
Some good news: if you're into gaming, the quad should excell in games that use the Alan Wake or Unreal3 engines. I would surmise that by February, most or all common benchmark apps should be optimized for quad, so that we'll have a better idea of the differences and comparisons between all current procs on the market.
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