Nehalem Procs for Mac Pro when?

[Pressure]

Thanks for linking to an article I have to pay to see.

Not really.

Weird, I can see it 😕

 

[schreck]

I do not disagree and I am not trying to "attack". I think everyone is just a little burnt out after the long wait for the recently updated Mac Pros.

He said it for me. 🙂

But really, what improvements will Nehalem bring? I'm honestly interested.

 

[Pressure]

He said it for me. 🙂

But really, what improvements will Nehalem bring? I'm honestly interested.

For starters it will finally abandon the architecture that began with the Pentium Pro back in 1995 and therefore be based on a whole new architecture.

It will have an integrated memory controller that uses the Intel QuickPath interconnect, which replaces the good old Front Side Bus and have 1 to 8+ cores on a single package. It will be based on 45nm as the current Penryn and some versions will even come with integrated graphic on the same processor package.

The server version will use the LGA1366 socket with support for registered DDR3.

 

[schreck]

For starters it will finally abandon the architecture that began with the Pentium Pro back in 1995 and therefore be based on a whole new architecture.

It will have an integrated memory controller that uses the Intel QuickPath interconnect, which replaces the good old Front Side Bus and have 1 to 8+ cores on a single package. It will be based on 45nm as the current Penryn and some versions will even come with integrated graphic on the same processor package.

The server version will use the LGA1366 socket with support for registered DDR3.

Brilliant. I appreciate that. I apologize for my laziness in not searching, but I figured you all could give me some legit answers.

 

[big dainjerus]

For starters it will finally abandon the architecture that began with the Pentium Pro back in 1995 and therefore be based on a whole new architecture.

It will have an integrated memory controller that uses the Intel QuickPath interconnect, which replaces the good old Front Side Bus and have 1 to 8+ cores on a single package. It will be based on 45nm as the current Penryn and some versions will even come with integrated graphic on the same processor package.

The server version will use the LGA1366 socket with support for registered DDR3.

But really, what improvements will nehalem bring?

(In other words, what does all that mean for us regular folk?)

 

[Topper]

But really, what improvements will nehalem bring?
(In other words, what does all that mean for us regular folk?)

Nehalem will be built from the inside out with whole new microarchitecture.
Nehalem will use DDR3 SDAM chips instead of the current DDR2 chips.
DDR3 chips will no longer use the front side bus of the DDR2 which are prone to latency problems.
DDR3 chips have an effective clock rate of up to 1600 MHz as compared to a clock of 800 MHz for the current DDR2 modules.
DDR3 chips also have an improved thermal design which allows them to run cooler.

The long and short of it is Nehalem will have up to three times the peak memory bandwidth of current Harpertown processors.

 

[Pressure]

But really, what improvements will nehalem bring?

(In other words, what does all that mean for us regular folk?)

A much faster processor generally speaking.

We are talking from a Pentium 4 to Core 2 Duo kind of performance jump if everything pans out as it should.

 

[Thiol]

I'm guessing this means that one won't be able to easily replace the processor on the Early 2008 Mac Pros with a Nehalem?

 

[Topper]

I'm guessing this means that one won't be able to easily replace the processor on the Early 2008 Mac Pros with a Nehalem?

Nope won't work, totally different socket.