Tilbage i Januar berettede vi at Penryn var nået så langt hen i udviklingen, at den kunne boote op i Windows. Her 3 måneder senere, ser det ud til at Penryn er færdig; for Anandtech har allerede fået fingrene i 2 eksemplarer. Henholdsvis en Wolfdale(Dualcore) og en Yorkfield(quadcore).
Umiddelbart er der ikke tale om et enormt ydelsesspring, men testerne lyder ganske tilfredse...
CPU'erne er testet på
et modificeret BadAxe2 "Obviously we'll reserve final judgments on Penryn for our official review of the CPU, but these initial results look very promising. We would expect to see clock for clock Penryn vs. Conroe improvements to be in the 5 - 10% range at minimum depending on the application. Factor in higher clock speeds and you can expect our CPU performance charts to shift up by about 20% by the end of this year.
Intel has shown its cards, now it's time for AMD to respond with those long overdue Barcelona tests..." Link til preview:
http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=2972&p=1