Is Intel's Core 2 Duo Processor Worth the Hype?

| Saturday, May 9, 2009

In month bringing to the release of the processor of duet of core 2 - also aimed as Conroe for desktop machines - much of questions are remained without answer. Did Intel make the modifications necessary to compete with AMD 'favours processor of S?

The duet of core 2 is the successor of the microphone-architecture of NetBurst which actuated the majority of the processors of Intel since 2000. The name of mark of Pentium - created in 1993 - does not exist any more with the release of core 2. Moreover, it is the first meeting of Intel 'of the products of book and desktop machine of S since Pentium M was released independently of Pentium 4 of 2003.

The technology of duet of core 2 takes account of a faster piece - up to 40 percent faster with 40 percent less power - that Pentium EE because of novel methods such as the smart hiding-place and broad dynamic execution (WDE).

The dynamic attribution of hiding-place within Intel 'technology smart of hiding-place of S distributes the cache memory effectively according to what is necessary by each core of execution. This has as consequence an optimized execution because the processor of Intel Core Duo allows the increased use of hiding-place.

According to Intel, WDE allows the delivery of more than instructions per rate/rhythm to improve the execution time and energy efficiency. Each core of execution is the generations more largely than preceding of 33%, making it possible each core simultaneously to seek, dispatch, carry out and withdraw up to four full instructions.

The extreme version current - X6800 - devices a freed multiplier, which means the multiplier of clock can be higher adjusted or lower 11.0x (derivative of the report/ratio of 11:1 of the maximum process of bus-with-core examined by Intel). That technology for a piece of Intel of detail goes the new base. X6800 showed the capacity with-top-of being synchronized with 3.4 gigahertz on cooling with the regular air of radiateur/de ventilator. With-top-synchronization is a first for Intel and a great victory for hands over users like gamers at end high.

The tests of evaluation in the multi-media one and the play showed that X6800 can carry out the best processor of AMD until 36% in the execution.

The new pieces are also smaller and less expensive to produce than Intel 'series of Pentium D900 of S, and they are much smaller than Athlon 64 X2s in spite to pack more transistors. Smallest die and a greater quantity of industrial facilities creates more flexibility of evaluation for Intel than AMD.

The technology of duet of core 2 also takes account of compatibility with the current systems and creates the versatility.

Upgraders and manufacturers of system can place the pieces of duet of core 2 in some current mother charts of Pentium D/EE (LGA775) with updates of certain BIOS/Firmware.

A physical desktop machine can be transformed into several virtual systems (all different applications and current operating softwares). Like example: an individual can play a game while a ftp server is carried out and a web server is actuated on another system. While waiting, at the same time, a database can be worked above.

Another important device is the platform of safety that the pieces of duet of core 2 provide. Before the release of the processors of duet of core 2, only GCV of businesses made confidence with the protection of the module of platform (TPM) incorporated in the system. Now, with the duet of core 2, all the GCV have TPM. In the material, all the passwords, openings and personal data are protected from the intruders, the spyware and the robbers of identity.

Allendale, a code name for versions purified of the processors of Conroe with 2MB of the L2 hiding-place, and Merom, with mainly the same configurations as Conroe with a emphase on the low consumption of power to increase the life of a battery of book.

In short, Intel 'release of S of the processor of duet of core 2 comes as announced, fast and of ideal efficiency. With more improvements of core 2 on the manner - and AMD preparing to launch its answer to Conroe with has 4x4 piece (the systems can employ a pair of pieces at end high of duel-core) - what is considered fast now are slow in the future.

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