Just last week Intel announced the release of its brand new line of processors the Intel Core 2 Duo “Conroe”, the processors will reach the market in late July and cover the whole range of low voltage powerful processors as well as some more high specced versions.
Benchmarks of the new processors are beginning to reach the Internet, they were produced within an Intel controlled environment but should be a fair indication of final performance, it should be noted that none of the benchmarks have been performed on Macs.
The Register has written up an article, they were genuinely impressed writing;
“It’s too early to comment on shipping product, but early tests suggest Conroe will fly…”
The Register writes that it was unable to do any testing on “Merom” the Core 2 Duo for mobile machines but says that we should expect 25 percent increased performance over “Yonah” with the same power efficiency. They also write slightly about the “Kentsfield” the quad-core processor from Intel.
Bit-tech has also taken a look at the Core 2 Duo, comparing it with the Intel Pentium EE 965.
In Bit-techs closing notes they wrote;
“Core 2 Duo is clearly a very capable processor, but there are some areas where it could be faster. It’s not often that we’re spoiled by something that completely blows us out of the water, but this could be it - if anything, it leaves us wanting more. However, we have some worries about its multi-tasking performance, which doesn’t appear to be quite as good as the chip that Conroe will be replacing later this year.”
