The first tests of wolfdale processors and Conroe showed an average deference by 5-10% almost in all types of applications (for wolfdale processor). Penryn generation processors do not promise any revolutionary technology or architecture ; therefore the performance boot between the new and old processor is pretty good . In other word wolfdale are only the slightly improved conroe successors , produced on 45 nm technology. In any case, Intel can use the frequency potential, which for sure will be improved in order to fight with phenom processors . According to some forecasts, the default frequencies of wolfdale and Yorkfield processors if necessary can be raised to 4.0 GHz.
Anandtech published a new review of the dual core processor wolfdale stepping A0, working at 2.33 GHz frequency . The results were compared with the 65 nm processor conroe, which works at the frequency 2.33 GHz - for this , they used the processor core 2 Duo e6550.
The average advantage Of wolfdale is equal to five percent. The greatest increase in speed was in video coding , three-dimensional rendering and game.
The energy consumption level at 2.33 GHz frequency was lower by 3% with wolfdale processor , under load , the 45 nm processor is 10% more economical. The processor overclock was made using the motherboard gigabyte GA -P35C-DS3r on base of chipset intel p35 without increase core voltage . The processor succeeded to overclock up to 3220 MHz.