{"id":70,"date":"2008-06-05T19:57:38","date_gmt":"2008-06-05T19:57:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/05\/42\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T16:43:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T21:43:19","slug":"42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/05\/42\/","title":{"rendered":"Intel at it Again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few days back I wrote an abridged history of the CPU, spotlighting Intel and AMD in their never ending battle for supremacy. Today, one of my favorite technical\/review sites (AnandTech) snagged an early revision of the Nehalem architecture (Intel&#8217;s next big chip) and ran a few benchmarks. AMD must feel crushed, because Intel pulled out ALL the stops.<br \/>\nNehalem chips wont be available to consumers until then end of 2008 and beginning of 2009. They offer as many as 8 cores, each &#8216;HyperThreaded&#8221; (a technology used in Intel&#8217;s older Pentium 4 chips) to create twice as many logical (processing capable, virtual) cores. The biggest, baddest consumer Core 2 available today comes with a maximum of 4 cores. Testing one of the 4 Core 2.66GHz Nehalem CPUs against one of Intel&#8217;s 4 Core 2.66GHz Penryns (updated Core 2 &#8216;Conroe&#8217;), the Nehalem still put the hurt on Penryn on a clock for clock basis. In other words, even at the same &#8220;GHz&#8221; the Nehalem is much faster.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-276\" src=\"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/nehalem.jpg\" alt=\"nehalem\" width=\"550\" height=\"366\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/nehalem.jpg 550w, https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/06\/nehalem-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><strong>Nehalem at Computex 2008 in Taipei, China.<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/static.squarespace.com\/static\/50de2672e4b00220dc78419c\/50de2b8ee4b06dcb6619796d\/50de2bcce4b06dcb66197d3a\/1356737484153\/?format=original\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To quote Anand himself, &#8220;<span class=\"content\">First keep in mind that these performance numbers are early, and they were run on a partly crippled, very early platform. With that preface, the fact that Nehalem is still able to post these 20 &#8211; 50% performance gains says only one thing about <a class=\"iAs\" style=\"border-bottom: 0.075em solid darkgreen ! important; text-decoration: underline ! important; padding-bottom: 1px ! important; color: darkgreen ! important; background-color: transparent ! important;\" href=\"http:\/\/anandtech.com\/cpuchipsets\/intel\/showdoc.aspx?i=3326&amp;p=9#\" target=\"_blank\">Intel&#8217;s<\/a> tick-tock cadence: they did it.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few days back I wrote an abridged history of the CPU, spotlighting Intel and AMD in their never ending battle for supremacy. Today, one of my favorite technical\/review sites (AnandTech) snagged an early revision of the Nehalem architecture (Intel&#8217;s next big chip) and ran a few benchmarks. AMD must feel crushed, because Intel pulled &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/05\/42\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Intel at it Again!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[54],"tags":[59,84],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware","tag-cpu","tag-intel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":277,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stormeffect.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}