Intel claims up to 50% gaming boost with Nehalem

Andreas G · Guest

Yesterday we served you some information on the upcoming Shanghai and Deneb processors from AMD. AMD is very confident that these will compete well with Intel's current and coming processors, but what we're wondering is how much they really know about Nehalem. We would be very surprised if they don't measure up to Core, but Nehalem may be another story. Intel is namely claiming that Nehalem will offer up to around 50% more gaming performance, and 40% better video performance; rendering, editing and conversion, when comparing Core i7-965 to Core 2 Extreme QX9770. This was from a document sent out by Intel, but it still adds to the tension we're feeling right now.

KTE · Member Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 413

More gaming than videoing? I would've thought they'd say the exact opposite actually. I'm also quite surprised, I think those are conservative estimates for the videoing aspect. I suppose they might have taken sampling from 8-15 different videoing usages and providing averages rather than just 1-2 we've seen the benches to.

I'm also wary of such figures. According to Intel, Penryn would perform:

1) >15% in Imaging than C2
2) >25% in 3D Rendering than C2
3) >40% in Gaming than C2
4) >40% in Video encoding than C2

C2D - Digit-Life compare 45nm vs 65nm showed:

3D Modeling and Rendering: +2.4%
CAD/CAM: 0%
Compile: +3.3%
Adobe: +9.7%
Scientific: +3.4%
Webserver: 0%
Archiving: +3.8%
Encoding: +4.2%
Games: 0%
JPEG Photoing: +3.6%

I suppose thats marketing eh Smile

Delph1 · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 4:43 pm Post subject:

It's a rather plain letter with rather specific tests. But hey, if I can build some more tension why not? Wink

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KTE · Member Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 413

Of course, numbers are good Smile

Did you see what Intel employee said about Coolalers leaks? http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3331008&postcount=1436

If anythings strange, then its that. Surprised

Mean Machine · Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 11:13 pm Post subject:

Well, he's got a good reason to be grumpy...

Delph1 · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 7:38 am Post subject:

I thought Coolaler bought his stuff on the black market anyway?

//Andreas
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KTE · Member Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 413

Hehe, yeah Francois, he's the main online Intel PR machine. Smile

Delph1 · Posted: Tue Oct 07, 2008 1:54 pm Post subject:

Yepp, we're about to enter the silent period Wink

//Andreas
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KTE · Member Joined: 04 May 2007 Posts: 413

You still have leakers though I suppose Razz

http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-6524-view-intel-core-i-7-940-review.html

Delph1 · Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2008 4:43 pm Post subject:

Nothing really surprising there. Big boost in memory performance, while system and synthetic benchmarks show good improvements. Impressive Smile

Actual boost in games was about 5-7%. From what I've heard Deneb should be more than competitive there.

//Andreas
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