Spring IDF 2006: Gelsinger Benchmarks Conroe
by Anand Lal Shimpi on March 7, 2006 1:28 PM EST- Posted in
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Pat Gelsinger took the stage after Rattner's keynote was over, and he offered a high level overview of the Enterprise market. There were a few interesting morsels that Gelsinger shared during his presentation.
First off we've got Intel's array of quad-core CPUs, note that these are all two dual core die on a single package. Kentsfield is the desktop offering.
Gelsinger put up an interesting slide that showed increase in CPU performance relative to the 486, showing that the Core architecture offers the biggest increase in performance since the original move to an Out of Order execution core:
Pat teamed up with Microsoft to bring a demonstration of Office 12 running on Conroe as well as Pentium D 950. Microsoft mentioned that Office 12 would have a greater focus on multithreading, and this particular test was of a multithreaded Excel 12 task:
Conroe completed the task in less than half the time, but in general Intel is still saying a 40% improvement over Pentium 4.
Now we're off to benchmark Conroe ourselves...
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Hulk - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
I guess the NDA will be in effect until the launch.Damn, just two or three good tests and we'd know the real story.
RichUK - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
I’m more partial to reviews, rather than Intel generated numbersQuestar - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
Read much?"Now we're off to benchmark Conroe ourselves..."
Griswold - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
And where are the numbers? Oh wait, probably under NDA for a few more months.Questar - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
I guess I was right, Grissy my boy. Article with real benches is up.And you made a fool of yourself, again.
Questar - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
Did you think maybe they had to wait in line, maybe they need time to write something and upload it to the site?Man, you're annoying.
peldor - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
Do we have any idea what speed this Conroe was running? I've heard clock speeds at launch from ~2 GHz to maybe 3.33 for a Conroe XE.Doormat - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
Wow. I didn't expect that out of Intel. Good to see power numbers are back in line, maybe I wont need to buy a monster 500W power supply with my next upgrade.Spoonbender - Tuesday, March 7, 2006 - link
Sounds nice. Interesting that AMD is launching what was it, 35W desktop cpu's though?Makes Intels claims of performance/watt superiority sound a bit more shaky.
Still, looking forward to Conroe. Looks like a monster performer at a very reasonable wattage.
yeeeeman - Wednesday, January 13, 2021 - link
Intel, you need some more of this