2.4ghz Kentsfield Benchmarks Arrive

[Kougar]

Coolaler, from www.coolaler.com (http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.coolaler.com%2F&langpair=zh-CN%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools) has traded in his many various samples of Conroe for a working 2.4ghz Kentsfield quad-core processor, and has begun running benchmarks.

Photos, benches, CPU-Z shots and more are all in this thread: http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=103982 (http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=103982)

In particular, it appears Intel might even offer better 4-core scaling than AMD's current K8, if your POV matches Iterations. Here's his post... HERE (http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1528158&postcount=68)

Going by that same thread, and elsewhere, it looks all but guaranteed Kentsfield will arrive on or before Valentines day 2007, and will indeed have the usual $999 price tag. Which works out to be $500 per Conroe... if they offer any none-extreme edition Kentsfields I think things will get very interesting very fast...

Here's a random graph compiled by MadShrimps HERE (http://www.madshrimps.be/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=25086)

Furthermore, I'm still reading the thread. However, this is a 2.4ghz 1066FSB ES sample Kentsfield... and Coolaler overclocked it on STOCK voltage to 3.2ghz, and on air no less!

From this screenie Click Me!! (http://www.iamxtreme.net/coolaler/conroe/KENSFIELD/10.gif) it has two B0 stepping revision 4 Conroes onboard... revision 5 is out now, but this shows it's a pretty new Engineering Sample even so.

Okay, using a 2.4ghz Kentsfield and a single 7950GX2 nVidia card, he scored a 10,044 in 3dMarks06. Linky (http://www.iamxtreme.net/coolaler/conroe/KENSFIELD/3d06.gif)

Edit:

Okay, looks like here's another separate 2.4ghz Kentsfield chip thread... http://www.overclocking-masters.com/forum/un-petit-Kentsfield-XE-pour-la-route-,t3153.htm (http://www.overclocking-masters.com/forum/un-petit-Kentsfield-XE-pour-la-route-,t3153.htm)

[werty316]

Those benchmark scores are unreal. Gawd and I thought the Conroe dualcore kicked ass; how is AMD ever gonna catch up now?

[Kougar]

Well, I keep coming across conflicting articles where the "K8L" that AMD will launch during the first half of 2007 will be dual-core or will be quad-core... From what I've read AMD doesn't plan any quad-core launches en mass until 2008, but if they are able to bring in a 65nm quad-core K8L by this time next year, they'll be able to hold together well enough.

The catch is, I'm pretty darn sure the K8L that will be be floating around by this time next year will only be dual-core... as AMD has always stuck to their plans of not combining new designs with die-shrinks. Unless they simply skip quickly over the 65nm launch before it even ramps fully up...

Either way, Intel will be handing back everything they had been getting from AMD over the past several years, and will contiune to do so for at least a year or two from how I currently see it. Intel is slated to have 45nm Penryn ramping up by the latter half of 2007, and AMD already pushed their 45nm process node up to the middle of 2008 at the earliest.

I don't think AMD is going anywhere anytime soon, even so.