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The Intel i7
is the biggest architectural shift for Intel since the Pentium 1. Gone
are the FSB , Northbridge - Outboard Memory Controller, and also the
added arbitration across multiple dies , multiple L2 Caches , replaced
by a Native Quadcore, Shared Cache Architecture , Onboard Memory Controller
, Tri Channel DDR3, and a new QuickPath interconnect architecture. The approach is now very similar to AMD's approach, and of course we will get the AMDians shedding a few tears that Intel have copied them, and fair enough. The difference being that while AMD have been sitting on their hands, Intels new architecture has hit the ball out of the park again, and Hyperthreading II was the biggest surprise of all when I ran thru the benches.. This is just a preliminary report , but will give a good enough insight into what is currently on the table. |
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Its is clearly evident from the above results that there has been a quantum leap in performance at the lower latancies with the newest architecture. The single i7 systems are easily outperforming the last generation Dual Xeon Quadcore systems , and Hyperthreading , unlike on the previous Netburst Architecture where it was last employed , is actually delivery tabgible and quantifiable improvments moving from 4 to 8 threads , aven more than moving from 4 to 8 phsical cores on the previous architecture |
System Specs: CPU: Dual Xeon i7 X5550 - 2.66GHZ
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The updated results for the Dual i7 Xeon platform is confirming that the quantum scaling improvments have been maintained on the Dual Socket architecture. * A thank you to the team at ADK for the time and energy to test and supply the results for the Dual i7 Xeon X5500 System* Vin Curigliano |
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