We reported yesterday about the engineering model bloomfield processor with 2.93 GHz frequency witch did not show a very successfull result in games. Associates referred to the limitation of performance from the side of video card and he test platform.
According to Associates , nehalem architecture is optimized for calculations acceleration , processing of data bases and multithreaded applications. In this case contemporary games will obtain an increase in speed from the fulfillment of integral operations and from the capacious second cache level - After transfer from NetBurst to Core 2 Duo the improvement occurred, which affected the speed in games in an obvious manner.
Now, after transfer from Core 2 Duo to Nehalem, a notable strengthening of integral block did not occur, delays at the first cache level grew from three to four cycles, but the second cache level volume was decreased from 6 mb to 256 KB. The Imposing 8 mb cache in the third level in Bloomfield has a delay of 40 cycles, which is sufficiently slow.
Some games show a speed boost after transfer from penryn to Nehalem, but in these cases it is reached due to the more effective multhreading in core i7 generation processors .