Intel Shows Off 8-Core 45nm Penryn Benchmarks

[Movieman]

V8 is currently nothing but a sticker on current workstation setups. Instant product so to say, no development etc needed. But its a glimmer product. Nothing useful, unless you already shopped a workstation and got the sticker as an addon.

I have to laugh when I read comments like this. Nothing usefull you say?
Computational power beyond any quad single socket gaming or workstation that exists.
I'm telling you straight, you guys have to work with one of these to appreciate just how much power they really have.
Just a little comparison for you to think on:
Over at HWBOT, the highest score I saw on Sisoftsandra math test app 2 months ago was just over 81,000.That was on a Kentsfield on LN2 at just under 5000mhz.
I decided to run it just for laughs to see what would happen.
I mean a dual clover at everyday 24/7 full load speeds. No OS tweaks, nothing special, stock win2K3 server ent 64 bit.
The result: 119,000+

Thats right. New mobo just for elite-desktop market and presumably based around the new chipset is what they are marketing with theese numbers!
Hopefully the boards will not be a more expensive than current server boards and that we will see other mobo makers producing it not just Asus.

Asus really isn't into this as yet.
The best boards seem to be supermicro and tyan so far.
I really wish they were cheaper to build. I'd love to see all you guys with one.
Just incredible machines to work with.

[Shintai]

I have to laugh when I read comments like this. Nothing usefull you say?
Computational power beyond any quad single socket gaming or workstation that exists.
I'm telling you straight, you guys have to work with one of these to appreciate just how much power they really have.
Just a little comparison for you to think on:
Over at HWBOT, the highest score I saw on Sisoftsandra math test app 2 months ago was just over 81,000.That was on a Kentsfield on LN2 at just under 5000mhz.
I decided to run it just for laughs to see what would happen.
I mean a dual clover at everyday 24/7 full load speeds. No OS tweaks, nothing special, stock win2K3 server ent 64 bit.
The result: 119,000+


Asus really isn't into this as yet.
The best boards seem to be supermicro and tyan so far.
I really wish they were cheaper to build. I'd love to see all you guys with one.
Just incredible machines to work with.

Its useless in the form that if you want such a platform its already there as a workstation. Its a double product, one with a V8 sticker, one without. Else its the same thing.

[Movieman]

Its useless in the form that if you want such a platform its already there as a workstation. Its a double product, one with a V8 sticker, one without. Else its the same thing.

Absolutely 100% correct. They are just trying to introduce this dual socket workstation setup in a slick case to attract another potential part of the buying public.
What I do think is missed by many people is that this platform loses a lot of the "problems" that previous dual socket xeons had and it's the C2D architecture that does it.]
In previous generations the server boards lacked so much but now they are very close to the high end gaming boards that you can effectively game on this system and you also have that incredible computational power that the single socket can't touch.
Here's an example of some of what I'm trying to say:
In August 2005 I built a 3600/2mb/800 dual xeon system, all the best parts and "state of the art" at that time.
When I ran SP1M on it I got 32s when the gamers were getting 21-22s
With this clover at 3270 I ran 15.562s in SP1M when the gamers are running in the high 11-13S range...Not that far off.
The duals have come a long way in the 22 month timespan between those 2 systems.