The Lynnfield Preview: Rumblings of Revenge
by Anand Lal Shimpi on May 29, 2009 1:00 PM EST- Posted in
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Microsoft Excel 2007
Excel can be a very powerful mathematical tool. In this benchmark we're running a Monte Carlo simulation on a very large spreadsheet of stock pricing data.
In highly threaded workloads the HT disabled Lynnfield is faster than Penryn at the same price, but still slower than the fastest quad-core Penryn CPUs.
Sorenson Squeeze: FLV Creation
Another video related benchmark, we're using Sorenson Squeeze to convert regular videos into Flash videos for use on websites.
Lynnfield, meet Phenom II, you guys perform alike.
WinRAR - Archive Creation
Our WinRAR test simply takes 300MB of files and compresses them into a single RAR archive using the application's default settings. We're not doing anything exotic here, just looking at the impact of CPU performance on creating an archive:
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Depeche - Friday, May 29, 2009 - link
Man thats ancient ... ya I would defiantly wait for the Core i5s. To get a Core i7 just doesn't seem worth it now with the Core i5's coming out.Samus - Friday, May 29, 2009 - link
i7 still makes sense if you plan ona) SLI/CF
b) dual-CPU
c) memory bandwidth intensive tasks (seeding torrents, folding@home, etc) where triple channel makes some sense
d) the need for 6 memory slots
e) something currently purchasable
I also suspect the release of "i5" chips will drive down prices of i7, specifically the i7-920, the most desirable i7. Keeping in mind the i7-920's overclocking ability, it is still much more capable than the "i5" even if you assume the "i5" overclocks as well, because the i7 has Jackson technology active across its entire lineup.
DJMiggy - Monday, June 1, 2009 - link
I swear I read that the i7 doesn't support dual CPUs. Maybe that has changed with xeons though or I might just be insane. Probably the latter.wifiwolf - Sunday, May 31, 2009 - link
i7 system is too expensive, cpu is also expensive but system is too overpriced.Jabbernyx - Friday, May 29, 2009 - link
^ This, although for me personally (b) isn't important and I've effectively nerfed (d) by using an EX58-UD3R :P