Well folks, Intel lifted the NDA off their new “nehalem” processors, so named Core i7. These little beasts are a whole new class on their own, blowing the core2 series of chips out of the water in most applications. As far as i can tell, they are not widely available yet, but look to see that increasing in the next few weeks. To see how the chip stacks up, check out this link.
A Few specs worth mentioning (check out the bandwidth – only the start of the full potential)
| |
Core i7 Extreme 965 |
Core i7 940 |
Core i7 920 |
| Clock frequency |
3.20 GHz |
2.93 GHz |
2.67GHz |
| Quick path speed |
6400 MT/s |
4800 MT/s |
4800 MT/s |
| Memory controller |
DDR3-1333 |
DDR3-1066 |
DDR3-1066 |
| Price |
$999 |
$562 |
$284 |
| Parallelism |
4 Physical Cores, 8 Logical Processors (hyper threaded) |
| Memory standard |
Triple Channel DDR3 |
| L2 Cache size |
256 KB per core |
| L3 Cache size |
8 MB |
| Transistor count |
731 Million |
| TDP |
130 W |
| Fabrication process |
45 nm |