PREVIEW REVIEW: Intel Penryn Chipset

[Wizno]

Here's a follow up to the Penryn chipset which promises 40% faster processing speeds!

You knew it had to be coming. A year ago Intel previewed its first Core 2 processors ahead of their release, and with Penryn due out before the end of the year the boys in blue are back again.

Penryn is still pretty early, although Intel was able to reach over 3GHz on all of the samples we tested. Not surprisingly, the number of benchmarks we were able to run was quite limited. Intel also provided us with a handful of its own test results demonstrated at IDF Beijing which we have reproduced here as well.

Intel Penryn Performance Preview: The Fastest gets Faster