Penryn: First Tests and Benchmarks

Lucky guys from Hardspell.com could get a Penryn CPU, and immediately tested it versus its current Conroe CPU equivalent (clock frequency).
As announced by Intel, the Penryn is slightly faster than its equivalent Conroe, but performance gain for specific tasks can reach 30%. This is particularly true for multimedia applications, as it was expected from Intel reports. When making intensive use of SSE instructions, the Penryn can really be much faster and fully unveil its true power, the DivX beta 6 simply runs 115% faster. This is a good point, and the iApps should benefit of such improvements, as SSE are often compared to the Altivec for PPC.