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Intel Core 2 Duo & Extreme Review
[Abstract]
The Pentium is Dead, Long Live The CoreIt has finally happened, Intel will be putting to rest the long standing Pentium branding for their next generation of desktop microprocessors in favor of...
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Results - SPEC CPU2000 v1.3
The Core 2's CPU results in SPEC CPU2000 are phenomenal to say the least. While the Athlon 64 FX-62 and Pentium XE 965 both struggle to reach the 2000 mark in the base integer tests, the Core 2 Extreme X6800 achieves an incredible score of 3119. That's a huge 65% improvement over the Pentium XE 965 on the Presler core, more than Intel's initial claim of a 40% integer performance improvement.
With the shorter pipelines of the Core microarchitecture, we had initially thought that floating-point performance might suffer somewhat, a compromise to being an integer monster, but the SPEC's base floating point results for the Core 2 Duo are almost as high as its integer scores.
Intel also maintains a healthy lead in SPEC's floating-point and integer rate workloads, showing off linear performance gains ramping from the 2.4GHz E6600 to the 2.93GHz X6800. As the Core 2 processors do not support Hyper-Threading technology, they do not suffer from the same performance hit as the Pentium XE 965 in the two-user multi-threaded tests.
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