Kentsfield Benches & Info

[Kougar]

I decided to split the Conroe/Kentsfield thread, as my post was getting pretty long.

Here's the latest thread from Coolaler... http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=104773 (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=104773). If you watch these forums you'll find most of the most current Core 2 Duo and Kentsfield info.

Currently there have been two flavors of Kentsfield, 2.4ghz and 2.66ghz. In the above thread Coolaler was able to OC the quad-core to 3ghz on stock voltage and air cooling, 3.2ghz on air cooling, and after some exotic cooling pushed it to a stable 3.65ghz. ;-)

@3.2ghz with a OCed 7950GX2:
3dMarks03: 39,662
3dmarks05: 17,083
3dMarks06: 11,194

CPU Scores @ 3.2ghz:
3dMark05: 12,036
3dMark06: 4,875
pcmark05: 10,313pts

Sisoft sandra test @3.5ghz:
http://www.iamxtreme.net/coolaler/conroe/KENSFIELD/E6700/17.gif (http://www.iamxtreme.net/coolaler/conroe/KENSFIELD/E6700/17.gif)
http://www.iamxtreme.net/coolaler/conroe/KENSFIELD/E6700/18.gif (http://www.iamxtreme.net/coolaler/conroe/KENSFIELD/E6700/17.gif)
http://www.iamxtreme.net/coolaler/conroe/KENSFIELD/E6700/19.gif (http://www.iamxtreme.net/coolaler/conroe/KENSFIELD/E6700/17.gif)


Temps:
everest 300
room temp-27
core temp@3.2g air cooling (idle)
core1#-57
core2#-57
core3#-57
core4#-52

core temp@3.2g air cooling (4 core full loading 10 miutes )
core1#-63
core2#-65
core3#-65
core4#-59

Also a Kentsfield was already spotted on eBay... price was above 2,000€ before the listing was cancled/removed :roll:

[werty316]

Those benches are damn sweet and it will be great too see how the retail cores perform once their are apps that take advantage of a four-cored chip.

[Kougar]

Those benches are damn sweet and it will be great too see how the retail cores perform once their are apps that take advatange of a four-cored chip.

Actually, there are already several!

A 2.4ghz quad-core completely wiped the floor with a 2.93ghz X6800 Conroe in a two video encoding test with TMPGEnc... :mrgreen:

[werty316]

But no games are efficent with quadcore chips. I only care for games ;)

[GIBSON]

But no games are efficent with quadcore chips. I only care for games ;)
not yet that is, lets hope programmers start coding a bit more towards multicore CPUs (actually when i'm starting to think about it, won't all these cores render a physX card useless, one of the four cores could easily be used to do the physics right)

[vfrex]

Wouldn't that be where AMD's co-processor idea comes in?

[Kougar]

not yet that is, lets hope programmers start coding a bit more towards multicore CPUs (actually when i'm starting to think about it, won't all these cores render a physX card useless, one of the four cores could easily be used to do the physics right)

I think Unreal Tournament 2007 was going to be multithreaded? I recall some 2007 game was... :mrgreen: http://www.beyondunreal.com/main/ut2007/about.php (http://www.beyondunreal.com/main/ut2007/about.php)

The ideas I've heard were already good... like have a separate thread for ingame sounds, or a thread for AI intelligence, a thread of physics handling, etc etc. Just branching off some of the little things helps bump FPS rates by a huge margin, like sound!

You have a good point about the physics though... ;) We will just have to see where things go...

Edit: While 4 cores seems like a big waste... how many play a game with an outside voice-comms running? Maybe an excel spreadsheet open displaying stats and info breakdown on your latest target... That could be four cores right there, although I'm stretching things admittedly ;)