Article: Parallelism at HotPar 2010
By: IntelUser2000 (Intel_user2000.delete@this.yahoo.ca), August 4, 2010 7:26 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
Richard Cownie (tich@pobox.com) on 8/4/10 wrote:
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>Gabriele Svelto (gabriele.svelto@gmail.com) on 8/4/10 wrote:
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>>That's debatable, Nehalem doesn't seem to offer much improvement in per-core performance
>>over Core 2 (in my experience at least)
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The advancement over Core 2 Penryn based core was in average 10%. The part that made it look artificially worse Conroe was against Prescott.
It's true that the advancement was smaller than Yonah to Merom(Merom to Nehalem was half that), but the other changes make up for it.
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>Gabriele Svelto (gabriele.svelto@gmail.com) on 8/4/10 wrote:
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>>That's debatable, Nehalem doesn't seem to offer much improvement in per-core performance
>>over Core 2 (in my experience at least)
>
The advancement over Core 2 Penryn based core was in average 10%. The part that made it look artificially worse Conroe was against Prescott.
It's true that the advancement was smaller than Yonah to Merom(Merom to Nehalem was half that), but the other changes make up for it.
