Intel finally brings its Nehalem architecture to its mainstream desktop PC line with today's Core i5/i7 and P55 chipset launch. In contrast to most previous launches, the chipset is actually a big deal this time around, marking as it does Intel's most radical overhaul of basic PC system architecture since the introduction of AGP.
Pre-Nehalm Era
Nehalm Core i5/i7
If you may have noticed, no more “North” and “South” bridges, only one ship called the “Platform Chipset” P55 and is now the only chipset besides the BIOS ship making Intel kind of analogues with AMD.
The GPU is now inside the CPU die .
Now the Question is, does that bring an added value in terms of performance?
In terms of Windows 7 and Gaming it is surprisingly worse according to the benchmarks !
Read on the details here on the Ars Technica article.
However the prior 5500 generation of Nehalm is bringing a performance boost of 500 times on the previous generation according to a white-paper from Intel, and 1000 times! in terms of virtualization performance if used in a special platform announced by an alliance of computing vendors including HP and Intel.
Waiting for other benchmarks for the Desktop platform specifically on Linux to see how it adds value and perform.
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