Intel says Penryn will deal 45 percent speed boost

[Terjen]

INTEL SAID today that it will deliver a speed boost of up to 45 percent when it delivers the Penryn shrink later this year.

On a conference call, Stephen Smith, Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group director, said that the company’s latest 45nm High-k process technology will help it achieve 20 percent faster transistor switching, clock speeds north of 3GHz and more instructions per clock for Penryn. As per Intel’s recent mantra, all of this will be delivered without breaking the current ceiling on power and thermals.

Penryn uses an enhanced version of the current Core microarchitecture, introducing SSE4, a new generation of Intel’s extensions that used to generate a joke about Screaming Cindy. Other additions include what Intel calls the “Radix-16 Divider” to accelerate mathematical and geometric calculations, faster virtualisation task switching and “deep power down” power management.

At the system level, Penryn will also be boosted by a new front-side bus that runs at 1600MHz rather than the current 1333MHz, and bigger caches -- 6MB for dual-cores and 12MB for quad-cores.

The improvements will feed into uniprocessor, dual-processor and multiprocessor Xeon dual-core and quad-core servers and workstations; a Core 2 dual-core and quad-core desktop, and a quad-core Core 2 Extreme Edition desktop; and a Core 2 dual-core mobile chip.

In terms of performance, Intel projects up to a 45 percent gain on workstation or high-performance computing “bandwidth-intensive applications”, up to 40 percent improved media application performance for tasks such as video encoding, and up to 20 percent faster gaming speeds.

Intel also previewed its next-gen microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem and due to go into chip production in 2008. The new news here was that Nehalem will support up to 16 or more threads and eight or more cores and that there will be support for optional integrated graphics. However, Smith said that high-end users will still be using slot-in graphics cards.

One area still up in the air for Nehalem is memory support. Smith said buffered and unbuffered memory types will be supported for different usage needs.

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K10 VS PENRYN

[un|que]

45 ננומטר 45% שיפור
תעביר את הטקסט האנגלי לצד שמאל של העמוד...

[Terjen]

זה לא רק ה45nm, גם יותר טרנזיסטורים+תדר שעון גבוהה בהרבה..

יהיה מסיבה

[Mr. Popo]

מה גם שהעמיסו עליו המון מטמון, זה מושלם לאותם ישומים הזוללים מטמון.

[RealG]

משה יודע מתי ה Penryn והברצלונה מגיעים אלו חוץ מהעובדה שזה במחצית השנייה של 07?

[cupra]

ברצלונה כנראה בעוד כחודשיים, וה Penryn אמור להגיע רשמית בסוף השנה הזאת (אבל נראה אותו בפעולה הרבה לפני זה...)

[barak_11]

אני כבר עובד עם FSB1600 קבוע
אבל אין כל ספק שהעלייה לשם חייבת להעשות כדי לסחוב את הדור האחרון של "מעבדי הFSB" של אינטל למקסימום ביצועים.