Chris Posted September 27, 2006 Report Share Posted September 27, 2006 SAN FRANCSICO--PC performance will increase 70 percent for some applications with Intel's new "Kentsfield" quad-core processor coming in November, company executives said Tuesday.The performance jump compares the 130-watt, 2.66GHz Kentsfield, to be called the Core 2 Extreme QX6700, with the current speed champ, the 80-watt, 2.93GHz dual-core Core 2 Extreme X6800, said Steve Smith, director of group operations in Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, in a briefing here at the Intel Developer Forum.In addition, the quad-core "Clovertown" processor for servers, to be called the Xeon 5300 and also scheduled to arrive in November, will be about 50 percent faster than the current "Woodcrest" Xeon 5100 at the same 80-watt power level, Smith said. The performance improvement was measured with a test of integer-processing speed.More | Here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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