Intel’s next-gen Sandy Bridge platform (1155) has received plenty of attention over the last few weeks as images of it have been strewn across the web thanks to Computex 2010. But today we finally have a little more info to go with those specs. Coolaler was able to get their mitts on an engineering sample to glean some much sought after benchmark-age off of it.
As hardware/PC builders have probably already gathered, the tested model — which ran at 2.5GHz and featured 256KB of L2 Cache per core and a shared 6MB L3 Cache — which has been discussed loosely before falls a step behind the 2.8GHz Core i7-860.
From what I’m seeing initially on the new 1155 socket, there’s not really much reason to upgrade if you’re content with your 1156 hardware, as don’t forget, none of your 1156 hardware will work with 1155 bits. How much is it worth to you?
Screens of the chip above being flogged and a backside shot of the proc itself are just inside. Dive in…
- December 15, 2009 1:02 pm
2 cores? What is this, 2005? 4 cores? Still yesterday’s news. 6-cores? Now we’re talkin’. In the mad race to the top of the processor heap, once achieving the fastest clock speed came and went with manufacturers moving their focus from speed to cores, the processor scene was upped multiple notches. What started as dual core and then progressed to quad-core would ultimately lead to the next logical advancement — 6-core. Such is the beast that lives within the upcoming Gulftown processors.
One puzzling move to make light of is that the Gulftown 6-core processors were originally slated to drop with core i9 nomenclature. That naming scheme however appears to have been dropped in favor of core i7 Extreme. Meh, in the end it doesn’t really matter. All we enthusiasts care about is the performance that will ooze from every silicon wafer and circuit on the 32nm chip.
To leave off, just fill your head with the wonderful thoughts that a 12 core (physical) and 24 core (logical — hypertrheading) processor will be capable of. Isn’t technology grand?
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