CPU/Mobo Early "Wolfdale" Benchmarks

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Faster than the E6550 in every test

HKEPC has got their hand on a 45nm Wolfdale ES sample clocked at 2.33GHz with 6MB of L2 cache and a 1,333MHz FSB and they've put it through the paces and put it up against a Core 2 Duo E6550.

HKEPC has run a wide range of tests on the two CPUs and the Wolfdale is faster in every single test, although in some cases only by half a percent or less. But in some test, CineBench 9.5 for example, it's between 7.5 to 19.2 percent faster.

But the most impressive number is the alpha version of DivX 6.6 with SSE4 support, over 115 percent performance increase, down from 69 seconds to 32 seconds when encoding a 1080p MPEG2 file to MPEG4.

Looking at the game tests it seems to be about 10 percent faster on average, although for some reason it's more than 31 percent faster in Half-Life 2, up some 22 fps compared to the E6550.

It's also using a lot less power and running about 10-12 Centigrades cooler than the E6550. Even at full load the Wolfdale ES only draws 59W compared to 83W for the E6550.[\QUOTE]

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Good boost in games...massive boost in encoding...cooler....lower TDP....prob will OC better...nice...

Thanks for fishing this out...Repped...
 
Power consumed at idle by E6550 is greater than power consumed at load by Wolfdale 2.33GHz ES :p

Also temp just 37C at load...
 
This one is truly worth waiting for... 6MB cache on a desktop proccy. And power consumption is so much less. Not just this but the next shrink for graphics chips looks promising too... the next upgrade is planned..

Die size: 107mm2 (Wolfdale) vs 143mm2 (Conroe)

@Rivunited.. Q1 '08. Appears the dates have been pushed back initially from Q3'07.
 
imoen said:
This one is truly worth waiting for... 6MB cache on a desktop proccy. And power consumption is so much less. Not just this but the next shrink for graphics chips looks promising too... the next upgrade is planned..

Die size: 107mm2 (Wolfdale) vs 143mm2 (Conroe)

@Rivunited.. Q1 '08. Appears the dates have been pushed back initially from Q3'07.
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Next shrink for graphics is 55nm so how does intel's 45 nm chip relate to that?

The dates were always Q1 2008. Supposedly they(ie 45 nm chips) had been pulled into Q4 2007 but it seems only a small quantity will be introduced at least in the desktop space with servers launching earlier
 
hunt3r said:
Next shrink for graphics is 55nm so how does intel's 45 nm chip relate to that?

The dates were always Q1 2008. Supposedly they(ie 45 nm chips) had been pulled into Q4 2007 but it seems only a small quantity will be introduced at least in the desktop space with servers launching earlier
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Possibly....and the quad core 2.33Ghz server Penryn is gng to be priced 256$ if some sources are to be believed....sweet price...:)

Actually awesome price at launch...Seems like they know Phenom will give them a reasonable challenge...
 
Not to mentions apps optimised for SSE4 will see an immense boost in performance.

45nm was the next logical step, and looking at Intel execution plan, they should have a smooth launch. Now just pray to god AMD offers something good, or else its gonna be bought over, and will not remain as competitive pushing the proccy prices back to the 10k levels during the P1, P2 days....
 
hunt3r said:
Next shrink for graphics is 55nm so how does intel's 45 nm chip relate to that?

The dates were always Q1 2008. Supposedly they(ie 45 nm chips) had been pulled into Q4 2007 but it seems only a small quantity will be introduced at least in the desktop space with servers launching earlier
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Actually the gfx shrink is 65nm at least for Nvidia, then 55nm in ATI's products.. The point was that the upcoming CPU/GPU shrinks seem to offer alot in terms of performance and power savings what with NV shooting for 1 Teraflop in G92 and all that. :cool: I think the reason Intel delayed these chips a bit is to see what AMD has in store. But then what else can we do besides sit at home and listen to rumours on the internet..
 
You must have read somewhere wrong,
Intel said Q1 08,then it was pulled to Q4 07,also main target was servers and not desktop..
You can bet that intel wont delay 45nm's at least on server..
 
As I mentioned the translated quote 4m representative on China, Intel arch. engineer in Taiwan.

...'It's important to stand out that the specifications had been not yet finished, and can vary in case that the B2 revision of the K10 nucleus surprises, breaking the barrier of 3GHz as some sites had mentioned. One corresponds of China, engineer of the Intel, in it affirmed them that in case that this happens, modern lithography process 45nm High-K of the Intel will allow that dual-Core Wolfdale reaches the barrier of 4GHz of clock and quad-Core Yorkfield has the high frequency 3.66GHz, to everything this only with a simple increase of voltage.'...

Source.

So yes...Intel is not just waiting 4 AMD but sh!tting bricks abt it.

Intel 1st decided 2 release only the QX6950 Kensfield 3.33GHz 12MB L2 in Q4 2007 but then AMD said they'd release the 2GHz Quad Core & sources @ Intel thought how 2GHz AMD would easily be OC 2 over 3.33GHz n so beat the top of the line Penryn n send them packing. So they decided ve a few releases in lower giged desktop as well.

ABT Server Xeons...here r the Clocks & here r the Costs.

I yum getting me a Xeon (E or L)5410 in 2 months !!!
 
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