Official Desktop Penryn Discussion Thread

[informal]

As firts results for Penryn show up,http://forum.coolaler.com/showthread...=158813&page=4,
we can put to an end the talk and FUD about Penryn pefromance.
As for gaming benches OCed Penryn and Kentsfield score almost the same in CPU test in mark06
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Difference at OCed speed is mere 2%.(where Kentsfield nullifies the FSB advantage of Yorkfield since it is reaching high FSB)
So the scores are practicly the same.
SPI benches show also a small advantage for Penryn(1.5s faster) that equally clocked Conroe at 2.33Ghz.
Where is the fast radix and other improvements intel was bombing the press?The only thing responsible for this small improvements is 6MB of L2 and higher FSB of Penryn.

Next look at Tmpengc perfomance in that topic.NO IMPROVEMENT AT ALL,and that test uses 128bit SEE! Where is so much desired improved super duper shuffle engine?Funny stuff indeed.

So Penryn is almost the same as Conroe,only featuring larger L2 and higehr FSB(later gets absolete since most of overclockers reach the same FSB with their Core2Duo & Quad systems).
Advantages are the SSE4 which COULD bring improvements once there is SSE4 aware software,possible higher OC(this hasn't been confirmed yet) and lower wattage at same clock as Conroe.Everything else is just a PR.Generally it is 5-6% faster or the same as Conroe and Core2Quad.