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Intel Penryn Enhancements Detailed

Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

2007-08-07 13:48:57.0


DailyTech has managed to acquire some further details on Intel’s next-generation processor architecture. The “Penryn” chips will obviously be manufactured on a 45nm process, and feature more cache, but there are a few other changes as well.

Here is a tidbit from the article:

“New to the Advanced Digital Media Boost technology is the inclusion of a new Intel SSE4 instruction set. SSE4 introduces 47 new instructions to improve performance of video accelerators, graphics building blocks and streaming load. Intel claims a 2x performance gain in video acceleration tasks. There are 14 new instructions for video accelerator performance enhancement. Intel improves compiler auto-vectorization performance with 32 new instructions.”


No ground-breaking revelations here, but it’s good to see that “Penryn” is not simply a die shrink combined with a cache increase. In fact, these initial benchmarks suggest some healthy performances gains compared to the current Core 2 architecture.

Click here to read the full review.

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