Core i9 Engineering Sample Shows 6-Core Power
Early Gulftown engineering sample previewed.
Polish computer site PCLab managed to secure an engineering sample of an Intel chip manufactured on the Westmere 32nm process, containing six-cores and 12MB of L3. Yes, it certainly looks like Gulftown – the codename for what likely will end up being marketed as Core i9.
Despite Gulftown not being officially supported yet the testers managed to get Gulftown to work on three boards: Gigabyte EX58-Extreme, ASUS Rampage II Gene and ASUS P6T SE, thanks to the chip using LGA 1366 socket. Of course, the BIOSes for the motherboards weren't optimized for Gulftown just yet, so there were some performance issues – particularly in the memory department.
Overall, test results showed that Gulftown performs as many would hope it would with an extra two Hyperthreaded cores. Multithreaded applications saw impressive gains thanks to the bump in 50 percent greater number of cores.
The early benchmarks show a very impressive chip from the Westmere family that we'll be seeing in 2010. Check out PCLab for the full preview.
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Is it just me or are the images being displayed side by side making the second one disappear under quick links on the right side of the page?
same here ; ;
^^their is accually a third pic waaayy to the right that i can only see half of on my wide screen.
Same for me.
Also, COME ON AMD I WANT PERFORMANCE BUT DON'T WANT TO GIVE INTEL MONEY
it's not you, i see it too
Don't trust hardware guys to do HTML...
Ok so there are still problems with finding the proper hardware to use i7 , but the i9 is already on it's way. That's promising in a way.
Let's see what AMD has to say about that. Especially what will AMD develop to keep up.
if you use the firefox zoom out you find the three charts.
It helps using a HDTV as a monitor as I do but you can always use the windows magnifier.
much less heat than the others and less power than the i7 bloomfield same clock:
bloomfield: 250W 49C
Gulftown: 226W 42C
looks much better when you know it's used 100% since benchmark is scaling perfectly at 50%
Hope AMD can come up with something as devastating - I'm seeing a 1500$ CPU coming