Discussions are appearing as to whether Intel’s decision to use old memory controllers with Havendale and Clarkdale will cripple memory performance. According to a source at a major motherboard company, the memory performance of both Havendale and Clarkdale is anything but impressive at this stage. The bandwidth of the tested engineering samples was substantially less than that of Lynnfield, or any Core i7 for that matter.
On a sidenote it looks like the number of transistors used by the IGP has almost doubled from the GMA X4500. The integrated 45nm chip is about the same size as the old chip used with the G45 chipset, which was 65nm. No performance estimate was given, but one can only guess, and of course hope, that performance will be significantly improved over the former Intel graphics chip.
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