Intel Yonah Performance Preview - Part I: The Exclusive First Look at Yonah
by Anand Lal Shimpi on November 30, 2005 2:50 AM EST- Posted in
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Multitasking Performance
Business Winstone 2004 includes a multitasking test as a part of its suite, which does the following:
"This test uses the same applications as the Business Winstone test, but runs some of them in the background. The test has three segments: in the first, files copy in the background while the script runs Microsoft Outlook and Internet Explorer in the foreground. The script waits for both foreground and background tasks to complete before starting the second segment. In that segment, Excel and Word operations run in the foreground while WinZip archives in the background. The script waits for both foreground and background tasks to complete before starting the third segment. In that segment, Norton AntiVirus runs a virus check in the background while Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, Microsoft Access, Microsoft PowerPoint, Microsoft FrontPage, and WinZip operations run in the foreground."
When it comes to multitasking performance, the 2.0GHz Yonah remains quite competitive with the X2 3800+. We were curious as to whether or not the shared L2 cache would mean that single-to-dual core scaling would be improved at all, but to really answer that question we'll need a single core Yonah...
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nserra - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
Well he is assuming it will, if not.... another Intel fiasco. But then, I’m still impressed with the power consuming numbers.But how will it scale performance/power consuming? At 2.6Ghz 20%?
xsilver - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
my guess is that its an asus and it will be ridiculously priced.it will also be funny how intel will sell this as the "fastest" processor in the world . blah blah blah.. even though it still cant beat the p4 in video encoding
has it been reported that there will be wide desktop mobo support, unlike the pentium M series so far? more manufacturers need to get in on the action b4 even the possibility of it becoming cheap.
VooDooAddict - Thursday, December 1, 2005 - link
First version of a next generation Intel CPU... Slower then the previous generation? NEVER!nserra - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
"Intel still needs to improve their video encoding and gaming performance, but it looks like we may have to wait for Conroe and Merom for that."Yes i will wait, the wait, wait. Wait for wait. You must wait for wait. Then wait will wait for wait. Then i will wait for wait.
Marlin1975 - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
wow intel chaning the pin/board layout to force others to buy all new gear, who would have thought.
shabby - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
Geez they moved one little pin just to spite us, friggin sad.Shintai - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
Yonah and Dothan is electrical incompatible.You only end up with either a fried chip or simply no ability to even run it.
The new socket is however future proff. It will work with the Merom mobile chip aswell.
Nyati13 - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
It's "rumoured" to be future proof, but Intel will probably change sockets between Yonah and Merom, like they always do.nullpointerus - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
Um...how do you know they didn't just move the pin to prevent people from frying the chip in older boards? In other words, does Yonah have a completely different use for the pins, or is it just a marketing scam?Deathcharge - Wednesday, November 30, 2005 - link
I think Intel has a lot of potential, this is a great mobile cpu and we've come a long way from the original P4 (which is what I am using to type this comment). I think this is really just a taste of things to come and if I was AMD I would be looking at what else I have to remain competitive. Sure what they have is far better than anything Intel TODAY but this time next year might be a completely different story.