Official Desktop Penryn Discussion Thread

[Shadowmage]

Penryn is a die shrink, SSE4, vastly improved Radix divider, shuffle engine, 50% increased L2 cache, better thermals, higher clocks, and ~10% improved IPC over the already dominant Conroe core.

Sounds great, and now it sounds like we'll be getting non NDA'd ES soon, and release by August.



Yeah, you can take that to the bank.

It's not +10% IPC, then all the others. It's +10% IPC *DUE* to the other enhancements you listed.

However, a certain program that many of you guys are obsessed about may have +50% improvement, since it uses many divides and things like that.