AMD or Intel?

[Ventriac]

Not talking about price, performance wise, what will i7 have that deneb won't?

 

[zmatt]

Nehalem is a huge change to x86. The changes include:

-Integrated memory controller, supports up to six channel DDR3
-QPI (similar to hypertransport, it replaces fsb)
-Simultaneous multihtreading essentially doubles the numbers of threads per core (ie a quad core has 8 threads, as opposed to 4 threads in a Yorkfield or Kentsfield)
-Native monolithic quad and octo core
-It is reported to have 25% better single threaded and 2 times the multithreaded performance per clock of penryn.
-30% low power usage per clock


The 2.66ghz bloom field will run you $284 and have 8 threads for 4 cores with 256k l2 cache (per core) and 8mb shared L3 cache

 

[Ventriac]

that sounds pretty beasty compared to deneb which will be?....

 

[zmatt]

Deneb will be a 45nm shrink of agena with 6mb L3 cache.

 

[Ventriac]

So it goes without saying Core i7 is going to rap* deneb...

 

[ricanflow]

Deneb will be a 45nm shrink of agena with 6mb L3 cache.

Deneb is much more than that....the ipc will be higher and perform better, its not just a die shrink.

So it goes without saying Core i7 is going to rap* deneb...

we dont know yet, wait untill theyre both released.

 

[zmatt]

You cant say for sure. But knowing the improvements that Deneb will make you can make a pretty good guess, and it's not hard to see that Nehalem will be faster. By how much, you cant know without benchmarking production cpus.

 

[veg1992]

Let's all expect AMD to make a slower chip, then it'll be so funny if they end up being better (like 4 series.. that was full of laughs)

 

[NosBoost300]

kinda like hd2900 series.. lol

 

[zmatt]

If Deneb turns out to be a world beater I will admit that I was wrong. I go with the company that is on top. I am no fanboy and never have been.