Original 45nm Intel® Core™ Microarchitecture

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Original 45nm Intel® Core™2 Processor Performance

INTRODUCTION

Performance is an integral part of product definition and success. Intel sets very aggressive performance targets to deliver products with compelling performance to the end user. While considerable effort is placed on functional validation of Intel® processors, Intel also employs significant time and effort to ensure that the processor performance meets expectations at every stage of the product development cycle from concept to silicon arrival to product launch. All design decisions are weighed against performance impact, and appropriate tradeoffs are made. As a result of this extensive effort, Intel delivered a product with record-breaking performance on a wide range of client and server applications.

In this paper, we present information on performance delivered by products based on the 45nm Intel® Core™2 family of processors, codename PenrynΔ. Please see[1] for a detailed architectural description of some of the new microarchitectural features. We begin with an overview of major performance features and then provide an in-depth discussion of measured performance improvements on a wide range of mobile and desktop products. We conclude by presenting performance and energy efficiency improvements achieved on server platforms built with Penryn processors.

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