Today, we have the exclusive look at a full fledged X58 system. The new chipset will be the foundation for Nehalem and Intel already indicated to us that the new platform will deliver a large boost in performance across all applications compared to currently available products.Intel will launch the X58 chipset with the same ICH-10 family of southbridges currently used on its P45 platform. ICH-10 supplies up to four PCI Express x16 paths, of which two, are PCI Express 2.0 paths. Other possible combinations are: one x16 path, two x16 paths, four x8 paths, and one 16 path and two x8 paths. Because of QuickPath however, we’re able to realize far better performance with wide bandwidth and very low latency. According to Intel, Nehalem will initially come with a 20-bit wide 25.6 GB/sec. QuickPath link, which gives a theoretical 2x performance increase in bandwidth over the 1600MHz FSB currently available on the X48 platform.
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http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel...doc.aspx?i=3326
(that does have some benchmark test results)
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel...doc.aspx?i=3326
(that does have some benchmark test results)
Amazing benches! this is a huge leap if all this proves to be accurate at release.
Multi-thread looks great though.
Multi-thread looks great though.
There's really much more to be gained from looking into massive parallelism than focusing on single threads.
I doubt Nehalem is going to be released for mainstream by Q4 2008. Probably 2009 you'll see Extreme Edition Nehalem along with server chips. And then mainstream and finally budget.
I wouldn't be sad. Nehalem for the consumer is a long way off yet, and it will cost a fortune.
I wouldn't be sad. Nehalem for the consumer is a long way off yet, and it will cost a fortune.
By the end of the year they'll have 3 desktop Nehalem processors. An extreme model, a performance model, and a mainstream model (According to wikipedia)
My guess is that the extreme one is going to be rediculously priced (Think $1000), but the other two might be relatively affordable. At least the mainstream one.
"10.20GHz Intel Nehalem slated for 2005". Oh how wrong they were. Here we are 3.5 years later with no Nehalem and click speeds are 1/3 of that.
Anyway - will be buying some of these to replace my Northwood P4.
That was a Netburst chip.
No, my click speeds are very fast now, but has more to do with the quality of the mice we have now.
Its amazing how far IT has come, especially considering that years ago, these kinds of bandwidths were only possibly in big-ass SGI rendering boxes - now all of this power is available on the desktop for the average Joe.
Edit: Anyone see on the second to last page - 20% performance increase with only 10% power increase. Nice to see Intel has realised the value of efficiency
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Intel did it again. AMD are all but officially relegated to low-end procs now.
Intel did it again. AMD are all but officially relegated to low-end procs now.
Grats on being able to predict the future
Intel did it again. AMD are all but officially relegated to low-end procs now.
Grats on being able to predict the future
But if you look at the trend... its not promising for AMD atm... but this cycle filp flops every few years.
1) Memory. If they don't produce a DDR2 option, it will really mess up the price-performance ratio, particularly on large memory builds (4Gb of DDR3 is still not cheap) Yeah, it might be the right decision long-term, but it could leave an opening.
2) Musical Sockets. Everyone who got burned on a Socket 754 or 940 Athlon 64 knows the drill... right now, supposedly, the 1300-pin socket version is a high-end model, and a very different part will be available on a 1100-pin socket for mortals.
In a few months, if they move everything but the Xeon versions to a third "compromise" socket, I wouldn't be surprised, but would be annoyed.
Indeed. Once the memory manufacturers ramp up production in response to the imminent release of Nehalem, prices should plummet.
Now all we have to do is to wait for current gen CPUs to drop on prices
I almost bought an E6750, but i check my mobo's CPU support list only to be left with anger and frustrated.
I will wait until nehalem comes out, so i can upgrade Mobo, CPU and DDR3.
The DDR3 memory should be more affordable come Nehalem launch date.
This new architecture really looks promising. I loved the quote from anandtech: "What Intel did to AMD in 2006 is doing it to himself with Nehalem"...
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