Intel Nehalem CPU running at 3.20GHz, right now

[Funkstar]

Well, Nehalem brings HyperThreading back into the Intel chips. So in theory you could see up to twice the performace in certain circumstances. By no means will that be across the board. I forget which operations benefited from Hyperthreading.

Clock for clock, betweeen 10% and 25% increase in performace is expected. With a 30% drop in power requirments.

[badass]

It was more a comment about allegedly inaccurate info in the article than a comment on performance. I was interested in which was true.
Does anyone remember what clock speeds the A1 Core2 Duo silicon ran at 6 months before release. 1.6 GHz is a figure I had in mind - this may be rubbish. They were released over 1 Ghz faster at launch. If Nehalem is running at 3.2 Ghz on A1 silicon and intel's performance claims are not grossly exaggerated, then we are talking about some serious performance increase even over Penryn. Even so, Past performance is not a guide to the future etc etc

[Tarinder]

Nehalems may not be running at 3.2GHz right now, but that figure won't be far off what Intel can achieve.

Nehalem was shown working months and months ago, and, looking at the past, HEXUS managed to snag some quality time with the Core 2 (Conroe), running at 2.67GHz, over four months before its launch.

HEXUS.net - Headline :: Intel finally set to smash AMD in performance stakes : Page - 1/5

Nehalem will be out in six months or so, and we can't wait.