PC performance will increase 70 percent for some applications with Intel's new "Kentsfield" quad-core processor coming in November, company executives said Tuesday.
The performance jump compares the 130-watt, 2.66GHz Kentsfield, to be called the Core 2 Extreme QX6700, with the current speed champ, the 80-watt, 2.93GHz dual-core Core 2 Extreme X6800, said Steve Smith, director of group operations in Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, in a briefing here at the Intel Developer Forum.
In addition, the quad-core "Clovertown" processor for servers, to be called the Xeon 5300 and also scheduled to arrive in November, will be about 50 percent faster than the current "Woodcrest" Xeon 5100 at the same 80-watt power level, Smith said. The performance improvement was measured with a test of integer-processing speed.
Intel is eager to tout its quad-core models, which are arriving months earlier than comparable products from rival Advanced Micro Devices. That's a change from 2005, when the companies were neck-in-neck delivering dual-core chips, but Intel representatives insisted "it's not a race."
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