2.66GHz desktop Nehalem benchmarked early

[zmatt]

Those are some wonky specs. 133mhz fsb, 32k L2. But its hard to complain about a 20x multi.

 

[Drizzt]

Well pressure like this forces a company like AMD to get back into gear.(

They have been under pressure for a while now... everyone says they will or hope they will make a comeback. But I don't see it unless intel messes up tbh.

 

[veg1992]

Man this is good... I'm sad D:

Why can't Intel just epic fail like worse than Netburst time....

 

[maroon1]

Here is another review from anadtech for Nehalem 2.66GHz
AnandTech: The Nehalem Preview: Intel Does It Again

In media encoding, Nehalem was 28% faster than Q9450 DivX test and 44% faster in x264 Encoding with AutoMKV

Nehalem was 40%, clock for clock, faster than Yorkfield in 3dsmax

So, the Nehalem is not only faster than Yorkfield in 3dmark, but it is much faster in real-world applications as well

 

[gurusan]

Very impressive....I certainly hope you can still overclock them..because otherwise you can just get a Q9450 and overclock it 50% to 4ghz and it will trounce the nehalem.

If it does overclock then imagine Nehalem at 3.5-4ghz

 

[veg1992]

That Quickpath will also give the smoothness that AMD Chips had before and edge to Intel also..

a 20x Multiplier simply awesome though...

 

[gurusan]

smoothness?

 

[veg1992]

Ya in games a lot of people say that AMD Processors may have the lower frame rate but the HyperTransport helps it be smoother for some reason (ask Nosboost, he said he's noticed it before)

 

[Luke]

very impressive. Nehalem is going to be s lga775 right?

 

[maroon1]

very impressive. Nehalem is going to be s lga775 right?

It is going to use a new Socket, LGA1366