Intel Nehalem 2.66GHz Processor Benchmarked - PCMark Vantage

[Apoptosis]

The crew over at VRZone were able to grab some Futuremark PCMark Vantage CPU Scores from an Intel Nehalem running 2.66GHz.

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Another interesting hunt over at Computex is definitely the Intel Nehalem and we managed to get our hands on a 2.66GHz Bloomfield running on a X58 Tylersburg board. Its 3DMark Vantage CPU score is pretty remarkable at 16334 which is about 45% faster than a similarly clocked Yorkfield.

The score was 16,334 like their screenshot shows. If you remember the article I did on PC Mark Vantage - http://www.legitreviews.com/article/703/1/ I was able to reach a CPU Score of 12,413 on the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 at stock speeds of 2.5GHz. That is a 32% performance difference, but keep in mind Nehalem is 160MHz (6.4%) faster and our test system was using an AGEIA PhysX card. Without the PhysX card our CPU score was 10173, so that would make Nehalem 6,161 points faster or 60.5% faster... It depends on if they were running a PhysX card or a GPU with PhysX!

Either way you do the math -- Nehalem is looking impressive!

[The gonz]

That is simply amazing! The crew over at Anandtech did a bit of benchmarking on Nehalem and it came out fast.

Fast like Conroe vs. 486 fast. The battle between NVIDIA and Intel should be monumental. Sorry AMD, you have a long road to recovery.

[werty316]

HOLY COW!!!! The Nehalem is looking sweeter with every news bit about it

[DMB2000uk]

man, Waiting for the kinks in Nehalem to be worked out is going to be tough if the performance is as good as we are seeing.

Dan

[skier]

so i guess intel is starting to continue to pack a ton of punch at lower frequencies, at this rate, AMD'll have to provide 4GHz Phenom variations just to keep up the PERFORMANCE though

[bobletman]

Wow that is amazing, Intel is also claiming that there new procs will have INSANE over clocking abilities

[DMB2000uk]

I hope they are bragging about it, as if they are, it should put the rumour that they are locking down overclocking out of the window
*i just hope it's not insane overclocking on the XE's only*

Dan

[aircommando13]

sweet looking perfromance, will probably cause the 9770 to drop down to a more reasonable price when it comes out

[Methious]

Insanely sweet performance. Might have to look into one when the kinks get worked out.

[GI-JOE]

Insane performance indeed, but until it comes down to my price range, there will be newer and faster technology out.

[bobletman]

WOW that is some amazing performace. Cant wait to buy one of these.

[kappage]

it doesnt even use 1 !!!