News - Intel Clarkdale 32nm CPU-and-GPU chip benchmarked (again)

[HEXUS]

Intel spills the beans on performance of its next-generation CPU/GPU chip known as Clarkdale.

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[simonw]

Clarkdale paired with the Intel H57 mini-ITX board is looking to be a good combination, with the cpu having decent power consumption and the IGP on par with the 785G.

[Methanoid]

Any ideas on costs and if the system drew 20W in idle and 60W load then whats the TDP of the chip.. got to be this side of bugger all

[Platinum]

mmm, that board, Clarkedale chip, SG05 and a GTS250 and I have the perfect lan machine

[simonw]

Any ideas on costs and if the system drew 20W in idle and 60W load then whats the TDP of the chip.. got to be this side of bugger all

This is from an article from Xbit:

[marshalex]

looking forward to seeing these when they come out. hopefully if priced right will make a fantastic HTPC for a reasonable price. just need blu-ray drives to drop that bit further and it will be a cracker

[Methanoid]

This is from an article from Xbit:

That kinda looks a tad different from claims of 60W loaded system when TDP is 73W for CPU/GPU alone.... maybe that TDP is rather generous.... if 60W is a real load system thats pretty good. My C2D integrated VGA system is loaded at 75W and thats pretty good IMHO.

[simonw]

That kinda looks a tad different from claims of 60W loaded system when TDP is 73W for CPU/GPU alone.... maybe that TDP is rather generous.... if 60W is a real load system thats pretty good. My C2D integrated VGA system is loaded at 75W and thats pretty good IMHO.

The results from the Hexus preview may be off a little. There are a few previews from other tech sites and they report it as 30W idle and 70W full load, and this is with evidence of those watt meters.

[sparta]

It's nice to see that Nehalem chips albeit in their second iteration are going down in TDp. Probaby cause Intel need to sold out all those 45nm chips based on Penryn (just as they show i3 right agains c2q chips)

But still even with 4 virtual threads in 2 core these chips came out at the 50% more price than old Athlon X4 chips capable of real 4 threads or almost twice the price of aii x3 that comes into functional egal with 50% max HT boost on Nehalem cores.

And as far BluRay estimated consumption goes nobody seems to mention that 1080p on sse4a (or even sse4.1) chips is possible as low as 1500MHz w/o hitting max limits and new 45nm athlons can do that with chip hitting 20W max TDP w/o even need for external graphic support or so much amd praised uvd (that in fact hurt in more cases than help). So if we put some SS DC ddr2 (lot more consume than similar ddr3, but still under 5W as manufacturers claims in case when ds sc use also below claimed 5W) and with some of fully capable GreenHDD with 5-6W in read mode we see that 35W is viable for some old am2+ system based on chipset w/ integrated graphic, not necessary w/ PureVideo or UVD in fact players sholdn't be capable recognise that to go to that TDP and avoid overhyped GPU post processing.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Whether or not the IGP has the performance of the ATI and Nvidia ones in reality is another question and so is driver support for the IGP which has not been an Intel strong point in the past AFAIK.