Posted on Monday, March 14 2011 @ 19:13 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
Intel is planning to release at least four new Pentium processors based on the Sandy Bridge architecture:
The Sandy Bridge-powered Pentium family will apparently be crowned by the Pentium G850, a dual-core, dual-thread design with a 2.9GHz clock speed, 3MB of L3 cache, and a 65W thermal envelope. Word is that there will also be a 2.8GHz Pentium G840, a 2.6GHz G620, and a 2.2GHz G620T with a 35W TDP. For reference, the Core i3-2100 runs at a peppier 3.1GHz and sports Hyper-Threading capabilities.
Inpai ran some simulated Pentium G840 benchmarks using a tweaked Core i3-2100, and the results are interesting. Apparently, the G840's performance would lie somewhere in between that of the i3-2100 and the existing Pentium G6950, which is based on the older Clarkdale design.
Source: The Tech Report
