Intel Launched Fastest Desktop Processor, Core i7

Tuesday 18 November 2008 @ 12:00 pm

Intel just did a counter attack at the right time! After knewing AMD is catching up with the launching of its first 45nm Opteron processor, Intel today announced its latest desktop processor, Core i7!

Intel Core i7

This new desktop processor from Intel, the first member of a new family of Nehalem processor designs, is claimed to be the fastest desktop processor by scoring a world record of 117 for the SPECint_base_rate2006 benchmark test. This is by far the most sophisticated Intel desktop processor ever built with new technologies that boost performance.

Intel Core i7

Some highlights of Intel Core i7 :-

  • Clock Speed at 2.66GHz-3.20GHz
  • 8MB L3 Cache, shared among all 4 cores
  • Turbo Boost Technology
  • Integrated memory controller for higher memory bandwidth (somehow AMD has been doing this since 2001).
  • 2x the bandwidth, compared to previous Intel Quad Core “Extreme” processors
  • 40% performance increase for immersive 3-D games, without increasing power consumption
  • Intel Quickpath Technology, enables it to 8-threaded (4 cores running multiple computing threads simultaneously) performance
  • Power Gates, for power-saving & performance boosting

  • Check out the video :-

    More information at a glance :-

    Processor Clock Speed (GHz) Price QPI Speed (GT/sec) Cache

    Memory Speed Support

    TDP Processor Generation
    Intel® Core™ i7-965 Extreme Edition 3.20 $999 6.4 8 MB DDR3-1066 130W New Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture (Nehalem) 45nm
    Intel® Core™ i7- 940 2.93 $562 4.8
    Intel® Core™ i7- 920 2.66 $284 4.8

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2 Responses to 'Intel Launched Fastest Desktop Processor, Core i7'

  1. Horizon - November 18th, 2008 at 6:28 am

    Hated Intel and Love them very much.

    I hated them for one reason, they are too good.
    Love them very much because they coming more and more powerful processor. I wonder how would the world looks like when processor speed hit up to 1TMhz.

  2. Horizon - November 18th, 2008 at 2:28 pm

    Hated Intel and Love them very much.

    I hated them for one reason, they are too good.
    Love them very much because they coming more and more powerful processor. I wonder how would the world looks like when processor speed hit up to 1TMhz.

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