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Intel's First 4.0 GHz Pentium: Pentium Gold G5620 Listed At Retail
A number of European retailers have started listing new Celeron and the Pentium Gold-branded processors, which indicates that the world's largest CPU supplier is about to formally announce the products. Topping the list of new processors is the Pentium G5620, which happens to be Intel's first Pentium-branded CPU clocked at 4 GHz.
[...] According to Germany-based ISO Datentechnik and Finland-based Futureport online stores, the new CPUs from Intel will be available starting from early March. But since that information does not come directly from Intel, it may not be completely accurate.
Intel originally planned to release its Pentium 4 processors based on the NetBurst microarchitecture and clocked at 4 GHz sometime in the middle of the previous decade. At some point, Intel stopped development of its Tejas generation of NetBurst processors cancelling all the products in the lineup, then the company cancelled release of Pentium 4 4.0 GHz CPUs featuring the Prescott, and the Prescott 2M designs due in 2005 – 2006. Later on the company released numerous Core-branded processors clocked at 4.0 GHz and higher, but frequencies of Pentiums topped at 3.8 GHz.
A hollow achievement, but interesting nonetheless.
Also at Tom's Hardware.
See also: Et Tu, Pentiums? GPU-Disabled Pentium Gold G5600F Appears
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Wednesday February 20 2019, @08:49PM
I saw that a long time ago. 350 MHz Pentium II with 1st generation GEForce was way better than a 1 GHz Pentium III with the Intel graphics. Even when it was new, Intel graphics from those days had a bad reputation. Barely able to run a GUI, it was so slow.
Out of morbid curiosity, I checked some benchmarks. These days, low end graphics scores around 500. That 20 year old graphics card scores about a 20, and the Intel embedded garbage scores a 1, LOL. To be fair, Intel finally upped their embedded graphics game when they rolled out their HD Graphics stuff starting about a decade ago. Today, their very bottom end is a little too cut down, but one step above that is adequate for gaming. And watch out for cooling issues. Got to have good cooling if you're going to game on Intel graphics, and some systems, such as those Intel NUCs, aren't quite up to the job.