The first preview of system on base of bloomfield processor with 2.93 GHz frequency appeared . Motherboard on the base of intel x58 chipset was supplied with six slots DIMM, in three were installed DDR3-1066 memory modules( volume 1 Gb each ). The timing value is 7-7-7-20. The video card radeon HD 4870 from sapphire productions with 512 mb GDDR-5 memory was used.
This system worked under the 64-bit version Windows vista business SP1. As competitor we have the systems on base of Core 2 Extreme QX9770 (3.2 GHz), Core 2 Extreme QX6800 (2.93 GHz) and Phenom X4 9950 Black edition (2.6 GHz) processors. Now let us note the strong sides of nehalem generation processors . First , a noticeable gain from the built-in memory controller -three-channel. In the second place, nehalem architecture shows its advantages in some applications, which are already optimized for multithreaded processors as - rendering, video and audio coding , archive and data storage .
The technology hyper-Threading in this case allow bloomfield processor to process up to eight threads simultaneously. The advantage Of nehalem in such applications can reach 33-50% in comparison with penryn generation processors , which have four core, and which work at a comparable frequencies. But if such optimization at the application level is not provided, increase in the performance from the passage to Bloomfield is much more modest.