AT Benches Nehalem

[Nemesis 1]

Nehalem/ larrabbee should be intersting. I haven't the time at the moment . But didn't intel say that Larrabbee will be a 150 watt unit? Which is still high but its inline with ATI and NV. The way intel has talked in public over the last 3 years I have vary little reason not to take them at their word.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: Idontcare
Those reports on Fudzilla of Larrabee being a 300W monster just doesn't sound right to me, I just don't see Intel's marketing group ever allowing the engineers to create products that can be attacked by the competition for power consumption attributes again.

Well, I can't imagine anyone fabbibg a 300 watt part, but I can see a quad-core + a GPU easily being 150-200 watts. Knock off a few watts because of it being 32nm, and I can see 150 watts being hard to attain, unless the GPU is extremely slow, which it very well may be.

Originally posted by: hooflung
AM3 will also be backwards compatible with AM2 so you can buy a phenom now and get a shanghai later, or so the speculation goes.

I think that's extremely unlikely, since very few AM2 motherboards even support Phenom. Or did you mean AM2+?

 

[Sureshot324]

I'm 90% certain that SLI will be working on Nehalem. Nvidia will make a deal with Intel allowing Intel to make SLI chipsets, and in return Intel will let Nvidia make chipsets for Nehalem. Even if Intel doesn't allow Nvidia to make Nehalem chipsets, Nvidia will still let Intel make SLI chipsets because if ATI is the only way to go Multi GPU on Nehalem, then that's very bad for Nvidia.