Intel shows "Sandy Bridge" CPU at 4.9GHz

Dan Warne
16 September 2010, 8:49 AM

Intel has demonstrated one of its new Sandy Bridge enthusiast desktop CPUs overclocked to 4.9GHz, with air-cooling only.

During a benchmarking session for media today in San Francisco, Intel demonstrated a Sandy Bridge CPU (which will be released in about three months, officially named "Second generation Intel Core processor" but still following the current i3/i5/i7 naming scheme) running at an incredible 4.9GHz.

Even more impressively, the system was air-cooled only -- no liquid cooling in sight.

Intel requested that we not disclose the original speed of the CPU before overclocking, as it is yet to announce the speeds that Sandy Bridge CPUs will ship at.

During the demo, which you can see below, an Intel spokesman observes that the benchmark result in Cinebench is faster than a 12 core AMD Opteron.

_{Dan Warne is attending IDF San Francisco as a guest of Intel.}

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Tin (User):

The unspecified number of cores 4.9GHz CPU beats a competitors unspecified speed 12 core CPU... Can we get the speed on that Opteron so we're comparing oranges, please?

16 September 2010, 10:14 AM (2 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend

agami (New user):

Second generation Core processors. So all of the ones up until now (Core, Core 2, and Core i) have been first gen?
So I'm guessing Core 2 i, or Core i Gen 2.
Way to go intel. I see you're going with the "The more confused the consumer is about the various choices the lesser the rate of ICT demystification" approach. After all, consumers who know exactly what they want are bad for business.

16 September 2010, 3:07 PM (2 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend

Seronx (New user):

The AMD opteron is a 6-core Dual-cpu setup

They are BS'ing

17 September 2010, 7:25 AM (2 years ago)report abuse Send to a friend

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