Details About Intel i7 Platform Emerge

Intel’s i7 has been causing waves, ever since the first unofficial benchmarks regarding its performance were released. The product was hinted to be incredibly fast and promised a spectacular performance upgrade over the existing Penryn platform. Well the NDA has now fallen off the new platform and benchmarks/scores have begun to appear all over. The new platform reportedly is divided into 3 sections namely the Intel i7 920, 940 and 965 Extreme, which are clocked at 2.66 GHz, 2.93 GHz and 3.2 GHz respectively.

The new platform brings a lot of changes which includes the addition of a new 8 MB L3 cache, marks the departure of the FSB method of connectivity in favor of a new method called QPI and introduces the new X58 motherboard platform. The cost of the processors has been tentatively fixed at $284 for the i7 920, $562 for i7 940 and $999 for the i7 965.

Check out this link for further details, on the new platform and an interesting perspective on its performance.