Intel Nehalem system demonstrated at Computex

It doesn't look as if much has changed with Nehalem since Intel showed the thing off at IDF, but rather than staring at still images and imagining just how fast said processor can churn through data, TweakTown hosted up a video to really get the point across. According to them, the demo setup was wicked fast at everything it did, and while representatives wouldn't divulge the clock speed, whispers have it right around 3.2GHz. Check out the vid just after the cut, and be sure to peep the full writeup in the read link below.

[Thanks, Lin Mei]

[Anthony @ Jun 3rd 2008 6:12PM]

Looking good... I look forward to having a Nehalem-powered computer when it comes out.

[Darren @ Jun 3rd 2008 6:18PM]

Multi-touch anyone?!?

[srue @ Jun 3rd 2008 6:23PM]

I rather like the look of the monitor with the bezel removed.

[srue @ Jun 3rd 2008 6:28PM]

(even if it is just a modification to make the monitor touchscreen)

[Christian A. Stroemmen @ Jun 4th 2008 7:00AM]

Couldn't agree more. It looks awesome.

[LC @ Jun 3rd 2008 6:29PM]

The GPU should be doing that. Not the CPU.

[Adam @ Jun 3rd 2008 6:42PM]

Exactly! If you take an E6600 (2.4 C2D if you don't know) and say a 9600GT or likely even less, I'm confident you would be running this faster than the Newhocares can. Intel keeps "showing off" the power of the CPU yet were major software companies (Adobe mainly) are looking towards the Power of GPU's. Take FASTRA for example.

[BrokenMonkey @ Jun 3rd 2008 6:30PM]

is this technology supposed to be multi-touch or not? It looks like he's only using one finger to zoom, but I can't see what he's doing with the keyboard (i.e. ctrl+drag or something)

[Adam @ Jun 3rd 2008 6:35PM]

Wouldn't a GPU do all that a whole lot faster?
Hmmmnnn... infact... this isn't very impressive at all.

[retro77 @ Jun 3rd 2008 6:36PM]

Problem: 8 cores, means your gonna need a beefier version of Windows to run this. Your 1-4 core copy floating around wont do it.

[JerkfacedFed @ Jun 3rd 2008 6:45PM]

actually, you're wrong.

"There's been some confusion about the difference between multiple processors and multiple processor cores (for example, both Intel and AMD are currently selling dual-core CPUs, and quad-core chips are on the way). While all of the Vista product editions support only one or two physical processors, none are limited to the number of processor cores they will support."

You can have 1 physical CPU on Home editions and 2 physical CPUs on Business / Ultimate editions with an unlimited number of cores per CPU.

I'm assuming Windows 7 will license the same way.

[retro77 @ Jun 3rd 2008 6:48PM]

Cool, thanks for setting it straight.

[JerkfacedFed @ Jun 3rd 2008 6:52PM]

no problem, thanks for responding maturely and being cool about it. most people on engadget flip out when corrected

[Chris2 @ Jun 3rd 2008 6:58PM]

Man, you guys suck, don't you know Engadget only exists for the petty squabbles in the comment sections...

[retro77 @ Jun 3rd 2008 7:01PM]

@JerkfacedFed: Well when your wrong your wrong. I must be thinking of the old NT4.0/early XP days where the CD said 1-4 processors and there were no dual core CPUs around.

@Chris2: /agree! lol.

[marcin @ Jun 3rd 2008 6:36PM]

i got no idea what he said nor how that demod the processor.

[octoberasian @ Jun 3rd 2008 7:48PM]

The processor, according to the article in TweakTown, was demoing a new software called DeepView.

What is impressive is how the processor's eight cores barely flinches while he used the multi-touch monitor to zoom in on each date of the month and brought them into view. This in turn seamlessly opened up all the pictures taken on that date with NO SLOWDOWNS or SLUGGISHNESS. And then, he zoomed out and scrolled over to the world map. From there he zoomed in on a particular location in Europe. This location then revealed a small area on the monitor of all pictures taken in that location.

That is one mighty impressive piece of software. It makes Windows Explorers and other photo gallery softwares look very dated. This makes the experience of looking at old photos more interactive and organized.

I am completely impressed by it. It seems that the software will require a multi-core processor for it to receive smooth performance.

[Michael @ Jun 3rd 2008 7:36PM]

where do i find a touch setup like that? (I mean the bezel)

[Obvious @ Jun 3rd 2008 8:17PM]

Though the software may be doing fundamentally different things under the surface, the interaction shown is very similar to the recent Silverlight-powered Hard Rock Memorabilia application, and that can be viewed without crazy processor specs on a normal x86 Mac/PC. It uses Microsoft's new Deep Zoom technology to allow for nested/sparse imagery.

All that aside, it's a cool demo of fast resource access and display anyway.

[Chris @ Jun 3rd 2008 8:30PM]

I'm more impressed by the program than the performance itself, I think the current mid-high end quad core cpu's should be able to run it that smooth.

[Armoured @ Jun 3rd 2008 9:53PM]

I love the monitor!!

[viral tarpara @ Jun 4th 2008 6:54AM]

dude...this demo has nothing to do with Nehalem...this is showing a feature called DeepZoom in Microsoft Silverlight. I can do the same thing on my core 2 duo laptop minus the multitouch. Processing power is not the limiter its teh bandwidth.

if you want to see a demo similar to this, goto http://memorabilia.hardrock.com which uses Silverlight DeepZoom.

[Raymin @ Jun 6th 2008 4:43PM]

SCREW THAT 8-CORE CPU! I WANT THAT SWEET 30-INCH MULTI-TOUCH MONITOR THEY'VE GOT!