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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: 1) by nitehawk214 on Wednesday February 20 2019, @09:42PM (2 children)
I can only assume that i3,i5,i7 branding is to intentionally confuse buyers. A new i5 is going to perform a year or two old i7 most of the time. But Intel still wants to make money on old stock, so they are branded so confusingly that consumers don't know what they are buying.
And don't get me started on "lakes". My best guess is to get the cheapest processor with the newest "lake" you can find.
"Don't you ever miss the days when you used to be nostalgic?" -Loiosh
(Score: 2) by bobthecimmerian on Friday February 22 2019, @03:31PM
A Loiosh reference! That's awesome.
It's nitpicking, but I think Intel is consistent with Pentium provided you're considering heavily multithreaded workloads like video editing. An i5 from 2019 won't beat an i7 from 2017 or maybe even from 2015 for that. The thing Intel doesn't call much attention to is that most of consumer computing, even a very good chunk of games, is not heavily multithreaded. And single-threaded advancements between generations are usually pretty modest. They exist, but the seat of the pants, user-detectible difference between an i5 from 2014 and one from today in Chrome or Firefox is probably really close to zero. So an awful lot of people are buying i7s and i5s when they would be fine with i3s and Pentiums.
I buy big batches of used DVDs and Blu Rays, rip them, and then reencode them to high quality H.265 so they take up less space on disk and less bandwidth when streaming through the house. For that my 6 Core/12 Thread Ryzen 5 is good. But like I said my kid is happy gaming with his Pentium 2 core/4 thread and when I upgrade my second desktop I'll probably go for something like that or maybe a next generation Ryzen 3.
(Score: 2) by toddestan on Friday February 22 2019, @11:56PM
I'd say the branding is their attempt to make it easier for non-technical buyers. An i7 is better than an i5, which is better than Pentium, and so on. Generally that's true, but what's endlessly confusing for techies is there is no clear differentiation between what makes a i7, i5, etc., and there's plenty of examples of higher tiered processors lacking features that lower tiered processors have, features added and cut for purely market differentiation reasons, and so on.
I do have to disagree with your performance assessment though. I have an i7 3770K*, and in terms of performance it's faster than just about any i5 until the latest 8th generation chips. And that's really only because you can get 6 core i5's now, whereas my i7 has to make do with only 4. Things may be different over in the mobile world I suppose, since there's a bunch of dual-core i7's over there.
* Yes it's unlocked but I'm talking stock speed here since I don't overclock it, because really there's no reason anymore...