Intel Ignites Desktop Dual-Core Era As First Dual-Core Chips
Intel Corp. is yet to release its central processing units with two cores in the late Q2 2005, but today the company decided to give the world a preview on performance of its first chip with two processing engine, the Intel Pentium Processor Extreme Edition 840.
Source: X-Bit LabsWith the ability to simultaneously execute up to four threads, the microprocessor may have the capability to deliver unmatched performance to desktop computing, nevertheless, its relatively low clock-speed of 3.20GHz may not allow it to score really high performance in applications like games.
“Whether supporting digital media creation, multi-threaded gaming applications or the convergence of digital entertainment, the Intel Pentium Processor Extreme Edition 840 is an excellent fit for advanced users seeking exceptional performance from their platform,” claims Intel Corp., but what do the professional media think?
“Despite our best efforts, some of the best characterization of the impact of dual core is done with words. The best way to put it is like this: if an application is eating up all of your CPU time, with dual core, you still have one core left to make the rest of your system just as responsive as before,” Anand Lal Shimpi of AnandTech has written in his preview of Intel’s dual-core chip performance.
“There are already many environments where a dual-core processor will outclass a non-threaded chip, such as media encoding, rendering, and the everyday multi-tasking in which you engage, behavior that’s very hard to quantify. Intel tells the tale of a “perfect storm”--instances during your work day where several tasks execute simultaneously, both in the background and foreground, taxing your system. Although you might be idling 90 percent of the time, those perfect storms can be debilitating. Without a processor capable of addressing multiple threads simultaneously, you’re left waiting. And that’s where dual-core comes into play,” writes FiringSquad.
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