Anandtech benches Nehalem

[BrowncoatGR]

Well, not to argue that a carefully pefected study is not completely available... how much data do we have on Deneb given that these proc's are supposedly to come out roughly the same time?

Point is... there are some tests Anand did that are so straight forward even Scientia could not screw them up ... Valve RAD maps, cinebench for example, and considering it was hands on for a day... the amount of info pretty remarkable.

What Anand showed is more than what initially broke at March 06, IDF when Intel let loose some Conroe numbers... Scientia said the same things, and what turned out to be the truth?

Nonetheless, we do not know how Deneb will fair ... so it is in appropriate to call 'AMD dead meat' or 'no more competition'... etc etc. Final numbers will tell the tale.

Jack

Actually its the way they chose to present the data that bothers me. I guess that might have been to keep Intel happy(Obfuscate the actual numbers as much as possible) but really the only usefull conclusion from these tests is that SMT scales very well and that Nehalem performs as expected in multithreaded applications. No doubt it's going to be a really good chip though.
[OT]BTW if AMD copied the IMC from any company that would be DEC actually[/OT] and that's the last time i'll mention AMD in this thread.

No one is saying that this was a full review, not even anand said that but it does give us some numbers that pretty much make it certain than nehlam will be a monster, No?

Stone cold killer( ) in apps that scale well with multiple threads certainly and Nehalem seems to actually deserve that comment