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Early Nehalem (Core i7) Benchmarks Show Off Performance Gains

Well, one thing is for sure...

Since the 920 keeps up with the QX9770 at 1/5 of the price, quad core prices are gonna fall...crash and burry.

For gamers, it's gonna be a nice time to upgrade if you have really old tech (if you have a high end rig, then no, it won't be as nice a time...in fact it's downright disappointing that i7s get outperformed in FarCry2 and get less than 1FPS increases over current offerings... )
 
Firefly2002 said:
Meh. I had thought improvements were generally 40-50%. 20-25ish leaves me pretty underwhelmed.
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Agreed. On some things its even less than that:

AnandTech said:
"you're looking at a 5 - 10% increase in general application performance at the same clock speeds as Penryn." - Anandtech.
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Both in low resolution crysis and GRID, there was no improvement. 15% improvement in low resolution far cry 2. However it did chop 22% off the divx encoding time, clock for clock.

All in all, an incremental update. Not worth upgrading conroe over.
 
sangosimo said:
We need better gpus. I love how an oc'ed q6600 can still keep up with everything.
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Nvidia is supposed to be releasing the GTX 270s and 290s as well as GX versions of the cards soon, probably to coincide with Nehalem release...

...still not the speed you're looking for in a GPU, but thought you might be interested. If they're good they'll bring down Radeon prices.
 
Jak3 said:
Nvidia is supposed to be releasing the GTX 270s and 290s as well as GX versions of the cards soon, probably to coincide with Nehalem release...

...still not the speed you're looking for in a GPU, but thought you might be interested. If they're good they'll bring down Radeon prices.
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Um... how does overpriced crap that still probably won't be as fast as ATI's fastest coincide well with Nehalem? **** nVidia.
 
Eidorian said:
I noticed an improvement in Windows XP moving from my old E2160 @ 2.4 GHz to the Q6600...

Snow Leopard this and that is getting rather old. People make it seem like multiple processors and cores aren't of any benefit at all right now.
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Snow Leopard makes it easier to write software that uses multiple cores.

However, there is plenty of software out there that uses multiple cores today. Maybe the developers had to work a bit harder for this than they would have with Snow Leopard, but once that work is done, multiple cores are useful.

And even though Snow Leopard makes using multiple cores easier for developers, there is nothing magical in it that will make your current software run faster. You have to wait until the developers get their work done.
 
Firefly2002 said:
Um... how does overpriced crap that still probably won't be as fast as ATI's fastest coincide well with Nehalem? **** nVidia.
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Look, I never said anything about it being good or bad, I'm just saying they are going to probably release them at the same time as nehalem.
 
gnasher729 said:
Snow Leopard makes it easier to write software that uses multiple cores.

However, there is plenty of software out there that uses multiple cores today. Maybe the developers had to work a bit harder for this than they would have with Snow Leopard, but once that work is done, multiple cores are useful.

And even though Snow Leopard makes using multiple cores easier for developers, there is nothing magical in it that will make your current software run faster. You have to wait until the developers get their work done.
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I know that Snow Leopard is going to make it easier for developers to create multi-processor aware applications. It's getting rather tiresome that users keep spewing that Tiger and Leopard applications aren't using those cores at all and Snow Leopard will finally bring that to OS X.

I've been using mutli-processor aware applications in OS X and Windows for several years now. Where has everyone else been?
 
Eidorian said:
I've been using mutli-processor aware applications in OS X and Windows for several years now. Where has everyone else been?
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See screenshot of Windows SQL Server using 256 processors.... ;)
 

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Not to be seen in ANY computers until they can fit them into the 25th version of...

...the iPhone.

:apple:
 
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