i5 performs almost as good as i7 according to anandtech

[maroon1]

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3570

2.66GHz i5 performed almost identical to i7 920, and outperformed Phenom II 955 in majority of cases !

So, probably intel will discontinue i7 920 because no one would buy 920 when you can get a similar perform with i5 for cheaper price. And there will be only two i7 model instead of 3 in the future, i7 950 and i7 975

 

[Bodaggit23]

Nice find. Very interesting.

 

[Twist86]

So its basically a I7 in every single way cept no HT?


Seems like a waste of time...I think it would have been better to make a dual-core and use the same tech and call it I5 it would sell better and be cheaper for gaming for the next year or two.

 

[Shane]

hmm intresting but i dont realy understand what Intel are doing.....

From what i can make out,I7 will still be available but at a higher price? and the I5 which are as near the performance as the i7 will go a little cheaper?

either way i still think Intels are going to get more costly and people will look into alternatives.

I probably will anyway.

 

[Aastii]

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3570
So, probably intel will discontinue i7 920 because no one would buy 920 when you can get a similar perform with i5 for cheaper price. And there will be only two i7 model instead of 3 in the future, i7 950 and i7 975

haha this is intel we are on about here. They will keep all and put the price of the i5 higher

They make very good stuff but are tight as a badgers rear

 

[Bodaggit23]

hmm intresting but i dont realy understand what Intel are doing.....

From what i can make out,I7 will still be available but at a higher price? and the I5 which are as near the performance as the i7 will go a little cheaper?

haha this is intel we are on about here. They will keep all and put the price of the i5 higher

They make very good stuff but are tight as a badgers rear

i7 will be available as high end desktop and workstation hardware. (Premium)

i5 will be released to "direct replacement for the quad-core Penryn CPUs
(Q series Quads) that have dominated the market for the past year and a half". (Mainstream)

i5 will be much more affordable. The most expensive chip is estimated to sell at $562.

 

[Jamin43]

Still too early to tell - til it's in the hand of the public to field test. But from what I've read at Toms Hardware - there's not nearly as much room to overclock the i5 compared to the i7 if that's something you're interestd in.

 

[Jamin43]

Here's an interesting article I found re: a future coming Nehalm Architecture being used in an 8 core Server.

Intel Shows Off 8-Core, 128 Thread Nehalem-EX

This is big daddy Nehalem.



Intel yesterday previewed the next big, bad Xeon chip based on the latest 45nm high-k metal gate technology
process, codenamed Nahelem-EX.


The Nehalem-EX chip features up to eight cores inside a single chip, and thanks to HyperThreading will support 16 threads. I’ll also pack an impressive 24 MB of cache.


Intel boasts that the “performance increase will be dramatic, posting the highest-ever jump from a previous generation processor,” with “up to nine times the memory bandwidth of the previous-generation Intel Xeon 7400 platform.”


The upcoming chip will also inherit reliability, availability and serviceability (RAS) features traditionally found in the Itanium processor family, such as Machine Check Architecture (MCA) Recovery.


Those looking to build serious servers out of the Nehalem-EX will be able to build systems that scale up to eight-sockets that are capable of processing 128 threads simultaneously.


Each CPU socket will also support 16 memory slots
, doubling what was possible in the previous generation, and offer four high-bandwidth QuickPath Interconnect links.


Intel and IBM have provided a short introduction video showing off (very briefly) a server system running the aforementioned eight-socket, 128 thread setup.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ4s...ex-octacore,7900.html&feature=player_embedded

Wonder if the 1366 socket will stay as a desktop - or morph into a Server platform.

 

[maroon1]

So its basically a I7 in every single way cept no HT?


Seems like a waste of time...I think it would have been better to make a dual-core and use the same tech and call it I5 it would sell better and be cheaper for gaming for the next year or two.

i5 will support HT

Only the cheapest model of i5 won't support it