Replies to post #44631 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[wbmw]

Re: So I expect a much greter improvement due to the faster FSB for quad core and multi-socketed systems. The impact on the V8 configuration should be a lot better than this measely 2% improvement.

I would think so, too. No one has reviewed the quad core QX6850, yet, and that may come with added improvements.

Of course, you should note that the V8 uses Xeon cores, which run at 1333 MT/s FSB already.

Also keep in mind that these new dual core chips will be priced starting at $163 (for the E6550) up to $222 (for the E6850), which dramatically outperform the AMD equivalent at the same price. So expect further AMD price reductions next month.

[alan81]

I was looking at the benchmarks WBMW point to, and it occured to me that the benchmarks that actually took advantage of quad core showed the current 1066FSB parts scale very nicely. It seems the quad core improvement with the "Intel Kludge" provides similar scaling to AMD solutions as well as the Intel single to dual core change. It would be interesting to do a more detailed analysis of this at some point.
I do agree the faster FSB should benefit quad core more than dual core. I was surprised to see the latency did not improve much with the faster FSB...
--Alan
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