redcell Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3326 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108963-new-nehalem-20-to-50-percent-faster-then-penryn/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted June 5, 2008 Share Posted June 5, 2008 Just checked out the article. Really exciting stuff...Most impressive that they can beat the Penryn chip by such a large margin, I mean they're doing to Penryn what they did to AMD in 2006, and Penryn is amazing in itself. The biggest beneficiaries initially are going to be high-end stuff, video editing, 3d rendering, servers and HPC... A Nehalem Mac Pro is going to be awesome! However I can't wait for this technology to filter down to desktop and notebook cpu's... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108963-new-nehalem-20-to-50-percent-faster-then-penryn/#findComment-772578 Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJ Loe Kee Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 Just checked out the article. Really exciting stuff...Most impressive that they can beat the Penryn chip by such a large margin, I mean they're doing to Penryn what they did to AMD in 2006, and Penryn is amazing in itself. The biggest beneficiaries initially are going to be high-end stuff, video editing, 3d rendering, servers and HPC... A Nehalem Mac Pro is going to be awesome! However I can't wait for this technology to filter down to desktop and notebook cpu's... i wanted to get a dual or quad core penryn for music production... i guess i'll wait and get a nahalem instead... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108963-new-nehalem-20-to-50-percent-faster-then-penryn/#findComment-775002 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Puppy Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 The best part is the 8-core Nehalem chip coming out in 2009... Imagine a 16-core, hyperthreaded Mac Pro! 32 threads! It would be like, up to 4 times as fast as the current 8-core Mac Pro in highly threaded applications (3D rendering, etc) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108963-new-nehalem-20-to-50-percent-faster-then-penryn/#findComment-775080 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alessandro17 Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 i wanted to get a dual or quad core penryn for music production... i guess i'll wait and get a nahalem instead... I have had this idea in my mind (waiting for Nehalems before I build a new computer) for quite some time now. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108963-new-nehalem-20-to-50-percent-faster-then-penryn/#findComment-775188 Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbetts Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 I think quad core should be the most on one single chip. Anything else is overkill, it's nice, but not needed. Even more when there are hardly any programs that uses 4 cores. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108963-new-nehalem-20-to-50-percent-faster-then-penryn/#findComment-775224 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 mmm...Logic Pro isn't that well threaded, and a modern Quad-core Penryn isn't exactly slow. But this thing = some serious geek cred Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108963-new-nehalem-20-to-50-percent-faster-then-penryn/#findComment-775250 Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted June 7, 2008 Share Posted June 7, 2008 The processor market is moving WAY too fast from what the software devs can actually keep up with. We barely have dual core support in most apps, I agree with vbetts in the sense that at this time, it shouldn't go over quad core on a single processor. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108963-new-nehalem-20-to-50-percent-faster-then-penryn/#findComment-775263 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Purple Puppy Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 I think quad core should be the most on one single chip. Anything else is overkill, it's nice, but not needed. Even more when there are hardly any programs that uses 4 cores. That's true. However, the 8-core chip, at least according to the Wikipedia article, is only for use in very high-end workstations and servers. And for people who do 3D ray-tracing, there can never be enough cores. Also, as games move towards real-time ray-tracing, gamers would soon find a need for as many processor cores as they can get their hands on. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108963-new-nehalem-20-to-50-percent-faster-then-penryn/#findComment-775410 Share on other sites More sharing options...
CLiDE FTW!!1 Posted June 8, 2008 Share Posted June 8, 2008 Man, I cannot wait to surf the net on those processors!!! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108963-new-nehalem-20-to-50-percent-faster-then-penryn/#findComment-775448 Share on other sites More sharing options...
hackeron Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Anyone tried one of these CPUs with hackintosh yet? - Care to share your experience? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108963-new-nehalem-20-to-50-percent-faster-then-penryn/#findComment-987205 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Synaesthesia Posted December 4, 2008 Share Posted December 4, 2008 Yep. Looks like someone got it working with Kalyway 10.5.2 http://forum.insanelymac.com/index.php?showtopic=132960 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/108963-new-nehalem-20-to-50-percent-faster-then-penryn/#findComment-987276 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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