Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 10th Sep 2006 18:01 UTC
Intel's first quad-core processor 'Kentsfield' has found its way into the Tom's Hardware test lab. Weeks before Intel will provide evaluation processors to the press, Tom's Hardware was able to obtain a qualification sample: The chip was sent through the test parcours, showing impressive performance.
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No new "multi-core" benchmarks please
by Wes Felter on Mon 11th Sep 2006 19:41
in reply to "Time for some new benchmarks"
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Tom's Hardware is using real programs as benchmarks, which is how things should be done. If real desktop programs can't use 4 cores, then they can't and customers need to know that. (Of course, I expect other results will show that real server apps can effectively use lots of cores.) Special multi-core optimized benchmarks just mislead customers (but they'll probably benefit the chip vendors).
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I think that a number of the current benchmarks are going to be made slightly redundant by the arrival of multi(>2) core processors.
I wonder if this is why the results don't show the expected performance gains when using 4 cores?
so, where is the TPC-C ( or other) type benchmark for these systems. They sure keep the CPU busy.