The New Intel® i7™ Processor is here !

Intel® has gifted all it users their personal bullet trains in terms of computation by unveiling the new Nehalem/core i7 procesor. The i7 processor is the latest entrant to join Intel`s high speed & performance oriented family.

With the i7 you can multi-task applications faster and stream high quality content like Blu-ray movies or heavy applications easily, thanks to the combination of Intel® Turbo boost technology and Intel® Hyper-Threading technology.

I7 information :

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• 3.06 GHz, 2.93 GHz, and 2.66 GHz core speed


• 8 processing threads with Intel® HT technology


• 8 MB of Intel® Smart Cache


• 3 Channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory

So let's have look at what the Intel® core i7 processor has to offer :

Processor Number	Clock Speed	Intel® virtualization Technology	Cache
i7-960	3.2 Ghz	✔	8 Mb SmartCache
i7-950	3.06 Ghz	✔	8 Mb SmartCache
i7-940	2.93 Ghz	✔	8 Mb SmartCache
i7-920	2.66 Ghz	✔	8 Mb SmartCache
i7-870	2.93 Ghz	✔	8 Mb SmartCache
i7-860s	2.53 Ghz	✔	8 Mb SmartCache
i7-860	2.8 Ghz	✔	8 Mb SmartCache

Benefits :

Intel Core i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in quad-core performance and feature the latest innovations in processor technologies:

Intel® Turbo Boost technology maximizes speed for demanding applications, dynamically accelerating performance to match your workload—more performance when you need it the most.

Intel® Hyper-Threading technology enables highly threaded applications to get more work done in parallel. With 8 threads available to the operating system, multi-tasking becomes even easier.

Intel® Smart Cache provides a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem. Optimized for industry leading multi-threaded games.

Intel® QuickPath Interconnect is designed for increased bandwidth and low latency. It can achieve data transfer speeds as high as 25.6 GB/sec with the Extreme Edition processor.

Integrated memory controller enables three channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory, resulting in up to 25.6 GB/sec memory bandwidth. This memory controller's lower latency and higher memory bandwidth delivers amazing performance for data-intensive applications.

Intel® HD Boost significantly improves a broad range of multimedia and compute-intensive applications. The 128-bit SSE instructions are issued at a throughput rate of one per clock cycle, allowing a new level of processing efficiency with SSE4 optimized applications.

Availibilty:

Intel will be launching three new Core i7 products in the next couple of weeks, at 2.66GHz, 2.9Ghz , 3GHz, and 3.20GHz, at prices ranging from $285 to $999 (qty. 1,000).Intel has announced that the official unveiling of the i7 processor will take place on the 17th of November 2008 in San Francisco.

Conclusion :

We batched 100 photos to be compressed using the Adobe photoshop CS4 with a variety of processors to compare which gives us maximum output.The results found are are :

Recommendation

Based on these comparisons, we would recommend the Intel® i7™ Processor. It performed well in all of the tests and had good standard features for the price.