First Nehalem Benchmarks :)

It is all i managed to take in digital format from a scan of the November Issue of the Greek version of the PCWorld Magazine :)


Nehalem, 3DMark06 CPU Score :
http://www.hwbox.gr/images/imagehost...9ab82bc7ee.jpg

Nehalem, Everest Cache and Memory Benchmark @ Dual Channel :
http://www.hwbox.gr/images/imagehost...9ab826fd5b.jpg

Nehalem, Everest Cache and Memory Benchmark @ Triple Channel :
http://www.hwbox.gr/images/imagehost...9ab8294f3e.jpg

Nehalem 3DStudio Max 8 Rendering :
http://www.hwbox.gr/images/imagehost...9ab8209cd7.jpg

Nehalem, Canopus Pro Coder 3 :
http://www.hwbox.gr/images/imagehost...9ab82338af.jpg

Nehalem, Cinebench R10 Multicore bench :
http://www.hwbox.gr/images/imagehost...9ab82528f0.jpg

Nehalem, Super Pi 1M, 4.5GHz@Air, 9.454s, Asus P6T Deluxe @ thelab.gr :
http://www.hwbox.gr/images/imagehost...9ae4b98a1c.jpg

Nehalem, 3Dmark03 @ 24163Marks [ CPU 3742GHz @ Dual Channel, ATi HD 4870 X2 Default] :
http://www.hwbox.gr/images/imagehost...9b8d73d68b.jpg

Nehalem, 3DMark Vantage Score : H10488 :
http://www.hwbox.gr/images/imagehost...9b8d789b60.jpg


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Nice SPi 1M. Those everest results are a bit low though, that memory needs to be going faster than 1066 CAS7. Thanks for the scans :up:

I am already READY for post whole review too .

Look at my graphs ... :yepp:

http://i34.tinypic.com/30mqvck.png

Sorry, but NDA lifts so soon, no bigger images till that date!

Tested in 71 aplications and settings ...

I look forward to seeing the cool OC'ing our community will do with these new chips, but personally I will most definitely sit this one out, no major gains in my field of interest.that is unless I get some form of sponsorship :wasntme:

Thanks for the benches gorilla. Are all the tests performed using the same system(w dual ch and SMP enabled)?
Is the C0 launch stepping?

Launch stepping is C1 ... and launch date is under NDA too.

4.1ns for L3 is almost unbelievable

@OBR OMG, you have there unbeliavable amount of bench results.

@gOJDO As i read the issue , everything is with Dual channel, nothing said for SMP though :(

Anyone know how high the QPI link can go for people who cannot afford a 1500$ Extreme Edition? The max I have seen was 200 but this was not a QPI test so Maybe it can go higher

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Originally Posted by Xel'Naga

Anyone know how high the QPI link can go for people who cannot afford a 1500$ Extreme Edition? The max I have seen was 200 but this was not a QPI test so Maybe it can go higher

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saaya said something about 220 being the max, but that its very hard to reach due to limitations of other parts.

max stable BCLK On my boards:

P6T Deluxe - max stable QPI with i920 and i940 = 150MHz
Rampage II Extreme = 190MHz
Gigabyte X58-UD5 = 180MHz
MSI Eclipse = mobo dead after M-Flash BIOS upgrade ...

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Originally Posted by Bellisimo

4.1ns for L3 is almost unbelievable

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only because it's the same as the core speed.

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Originally Posted by OBR

I am already READY for post whole review too .

Look at my graphs ... :yepp:

Sorry, but NDA lifts so soon, no bigger images till that date!

Tested in 71 aplications and settings ...

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*fires up photoshop*

*applies ultra secret image enhancer filter (as in the one we see in the movies)*


but yeah, zooming that image its pretty obvious the puplish bar is 965 :p

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Originally Posted by OBR

max stable BCLK On my boards:

P6T Deluxe - max stable QPI with i920 and i940 = 150MHz
Rampage II Extreme = 190MHz
Gigabyte X58-UD5 = 180MHz
MSI Eclipse = mobo dead after M-Flash BIOS upgrade ...

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thats harsh, not even 200mhz

hopefully a few bios iterations will get the wall up higher for some of those boards.

some nice results there but I wouldnt buy on launch most likely after 4 months they will release a new stepping with price drops, C1 isnt going to cut it for me

for comparison my q9650 at 4.107 ghz gets 6040 cpu score in 3dm06, under water

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=7769071

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Originally Posted by OBR

Sorry, but NDA lifts so soon, no bigger images till that date!

Tested in 71 aplications and settings ...

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If I get it right and the i7s have differently colored bars, then.. :D

hmm seeing OBR small screenshots i am rather confident that he has a correct vision on the new platform as usual.

these are all nice scores, but then again all synthetic benchmarking or HT loving apps....

my conclusion stays for already few months, this new platform is ready for benching and HT ready apps all the rest has no added value moving from there already existing c2q platform.... intel pushed a release for benchers :) some XS people will be happy :)

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Originally Posted by duploxxx

hmm seeing OBR small screenshots i am rather confident that he has a correct vision on the new platform as usual.

these are all nice scores, but then again all synthetic benchmarking or HT loving apps....

my conclusion stays for already few months, this new platform is ready for benching and HT ready apps all the rest has no added value moving from there already existing c2q platform.... intel pushed a release for benchers :) some XS people will be happy :)

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Oh yea, because Core i7 is just for HT loving apps and benchmarks. :rolleyes:

QPI will help tremendously for server markets.

Would've been nice to see how the Q6600 compares after kicking a$$ this long :)

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Originally Posted by duploxxx

hmm seeing OBR small screenshots i am rather confident that he has a correct vision on the new platform as usual.

these are all nice scores, but then again all synthetic benchmarking or HT loving apps....

my conclusion stays for already few months, this new platform is ready for benching and HT ready apps all the rest has no added value moving from there already existing c2q platform.... intel pushed a release for benchers :) some XS people will be happy :)

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you can try on Far Cry 2, the new generation of games like threading, that is for sure! Remember, when you buy a processor, it is an investment for the future ... and the future is happening now ... (beautiful relativist paradox with Quantum mecanic, now is now, but few seconds ago, it was the future ... lol , especially since you can correlate position and time in QM ... hehehe :shocked:)

not that impressive... Probably next to zero improvement in games over yorkie

Not sure why anybody would be expecting any real gaming performance differences from a cpu with the crop of games currently available. Considering most games are largely limited on the gpu end more so than the cpu end anyways unless you still game at 1024 or something and looking for 300fps.

Looks like i7 is rounding up overall performance very nicely across a variety of workloads.

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Originally Posted by OBR

I am already READY for post whole review too .

Look at my graphs ... :yepp:

http://i34.tinypic.com/30mqvck.png

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I can read that, noooooooooo problem. :ROTF:

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Originally Posted by Drwho?

you can try on Far Cry 2, the new generation of games like threading, that is for sure! Remember, when you buy a processor, it is an investment for the future ... and the future is happening now ... (beautiful relativist paradox with Quantum mecanic, now is now, but few seconds ago, it was the future ... lol , especially since you can correlate position and time in QM ... hehehe :shocked:)

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i am sure that you already tested that part, other wise you wouldn't post this :cool:. And indeed future wise it might be interesting, but its not about the future its about all those that have a 65-45nm quad setup with most of them ddr2. At this point in time switching would be waste of money for all of those.

Intel just killed there own high end market share, not even AMD was required for that. they should have focused on there q109 2s server en 2h09 4s server launch in stead of this desktop platform.