VR-Zone has posted
a screenshot of a CPU-Z window and a 3DMark Vantage score allegedly taken
from a "Bloomfield" desktop machine with an X58 chipset. The CPU-Z shot reveals
a clock speed of 2.64GHz, a bus speed of 133MHz, and a core voltage of just
0.856V. The cache readings look a little wonky, since they report 32KB of L2
cache per core, whereas Intel has clearly stated that Nehalem packs 256KB L2 of
cache per core. Nevertheless, the machine apparently managed to hit a CPU score
of 16,334 in 3DMark Vantage. VR-Zone comments that the score is "about 45%
faster than a similarly clocked [45nm Core 2 Quad]." 3DMark Vantage's CPU tests
cover physics and artificial intelligence simulations, and a look at
Futuremark's results database indeed suggests 2.66GHz Core 2 Quad Q9450 CPUs
typically score around 11,000 points in the Vantage CPU test. (thanks
TechReport)
Ed.note: Do you remember? Intel released their first 2.66GHz (0.13 µm Northwood A?) clocked CPU in 2003. I don't think anyone here would have predicted 5 years later there's be a front page article about intel's shiny new 2.66GHz clocked CPU :-P
