BEASTY. Even for clock-for-clock vs. Penryn. And it's previewed on a gimped mobo. And it's still only a preview.
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3326&p=1
I am excited. I just hope the non-extreme editions (i.e. the ones not over a grand) will be out in Q1 '09 and not Q2.
This means NASTY (in the good sense) render times for TG2.
There is a catch, though: you need a new mobo because it's a new socket type, and it only supports DDR3 (which is much better than DDR2, but more expensive at the moment, but that's because it's new. The price should lower by the time Nehalem is out.)
link is dead
There we go.
Yeah, I saw this a couple of days ago. Crazy stuff. Personally, I'm looking forward to having four cores in my next laptop ;).
It looks pretty awesome. AMD will remain well behind, unfortunately in some sense (re: competition), but we still get to play with the performance so for now it's a "win" for us. ;D Although the hardware is pre-release, judging from past releases of this type I wouldn't expect particularly higher performance on the shipping version (maybe a few percent difference, but nothing significant).
- Oshyan
I posted recently of a nice little Nehalem news-blog site if this sort of thing gets you excited (it does me :P) - http://www.nehalemnews.com/
Come on AMD! - I know, I know, it just aint gonna happen... :(
Oh, thanks for the link! Interesting. Toms Hardware posted today that the roadmap for the Nehalem was leaked online and apparently are having all three segments available in Q4: the Extreme, Performance, and Mainstream. This makes me happy as I probably won't have to wait until late Q1 to build my new PC :P