Pentium D has arrived

To be honest Intel hasn’t launched its Pentium D-series with dual cores yet. Although there have shown up a few previews of the, for the desktop market, revolutionizing series.
It the first processormodels we see on the consumer market with dual cores and the question is whether we are ready to take advantage of all the performance and the capabilities of dual cores.

The foundation of the Pentium D is as indicated two joined Prescott-cores. Manufactured in 90nm with a L2-cache of 1MB each together they form a separate processor.

The difference between Pentium D and Pentium D Extreme Edition is a minor detail, the latter supports HyperThreading which makes it possible for it to work with four threads at a time instead of two.
The models that have been tested are the Pentium D 3.2GHz and the Pentium Extreme Edition 840. Both models use a “narrow” buss at 800MHz and a frequency of 3.2GHz which means many applications that doesn’t take advantage o multithreading will suffer greatly compared to the Pentium 4-series which is available at speeds up to 3.8GHz.

When you start to use more applications and load the system from several angles we get to see a totally different picture, something they’ve managed to bring forth in Anandtech’s review.

It’s pretty clear that dual cores is in no way the solution to all our problems. But it’s efficiency when multitasking can’t be ignored, something that is a bit hard to show in some tests.

“When it comes to dual core vs. single core with Hyper Threading, there’s a huge difference. While both improve system response time, dual core improves it more while also guaranteeing better overall system performance. Hyper Threading lets you multitask, dual core lets you actually get work done while multitasking.”

Below you can find several of the reviews posted lately;

:: Anandtech :: HardOCP :: Trusted Reviews :: Hexus :: Legit Reviews :: Hot Hardware :: Firing Squad ::