Intel has now finally launched its new Core architecture officially and even if we’ve been able to offer you loads of reports about Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Extreme earlier it’s not far off before regular consumers will be able to take advantage of Intel’s new and actually quite nice processor architecture. As you know we’ve had Intel’s new processors in our possession for a couple of weeks as our overclocking gurus Kinc and Crotale has shown a little of what they can do during some extreme conditions. Unfortunately our own review of the Core architecture is a bit delayed as we’ve not had the right launch date confirmed by Intel, a real pitty but we will be able to offer a full-scale coverage of Intel Core 2 Duo/Core 2 Extreme within a week. The first official reviews of the Core architecture have now appeared and overall there is no doubt that Intel has reclaimed the performance throne and in many cases done so in an almost majestic manner.
By bringing the best from the Pentium M architecture (basically the old P6 architecture) and some elements from the NetBurst architecture Intel has created a new but still old architecture, which in difference to the processors of the last five years which have been about anything but the performance/watt ratio but instead just about performance and high frequencies.
AMD has for long been the leader of the x86 market seen to the performance and its K8 architecture has been a true success. But now Intel seems to be seriously back on track and in the official tests that have now been published there is no doubt that the Core architecture is the fastest one around, and often with a pretty good margin.
As we mentioned earlier Intel has decided to launch its new Core architecture earlier than expected and this has had some unfortunate side effects, e.g. no Core processors are available in stores today but you will have to wait a few weeks. Intel’s Core 2 Extreme is expected to appear in stores on July 27, the previous launch date we received for Core, while Core 2 Duo processors is not expected until August 7. Thus, Intel has the fastest processor architecture on the market, but the procesors themselves are not available. We just hope that the supply and prices will be able to stand for the pressure that will arise from the consumers wanting to lay their hands on Intel’s new Core architecture.
We will offer more deep and technological information about Intel’s Core architecture the coming time so don’t go anywhere, but until then we’ve gathered some reviews for your to look at in the meantime:
:: Anandtech :: HardOCP :: TechReport :: The Firingsquad :: TomsHardware :: Madshrimps :: OC Workbench :: TrustedReviews ::
