Pilotasso Posted August 21, 2008 Posted August 21, 2008 (edited) I'm just letting you know since I have been researching recently for my Q5550 CPU buy. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/IDFFall2008-Intel-Nehalem,6207.html http://www.anandtech.com/weblog/showpost.aspx?i=480 It apears not only will mainstream version of Nehalem scheduled to late 2009 but it probably wont be aimed at gamers. Not just yet. Nehalem is coming this fall to target Opteron products for the server market, an area where AMD still holds the crown. Intel is holding the date for mainstream release for christmas 2009. Why? Summing up the articles above Nehalem is aimed to increasing HPC perfomance (floating point?) for servers, leaving integger perfomance, the driving force behind games, at second plane. It will have a much smaller L2 cache than C2D 256kb VS 12MB and have 6 to 12Mb L3 cache but with much higher latencies. Games crave for big L2 caches with low latencies like those found on C2D. Intel plans to boost up single threaded perfomance by dynamicaly overclocking 1 CPU at the expense of shutting down the others. If the chip was suposed to be a monster game performer I ask, why would it need to overclock for legacy applications? I have the theory that Intel is holding the architecture from mainstream for late 2009 in order to make the chips ready for higher clock speeds in later revisions. Thus avoinding C2D CPU to overlap nehalem perfomance wise in games. Edited August 21, 2008 by Pilotasso .
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