Digital Photography and Lynnfield

By now, the Lynnfield reviews are in. Here are just a few.

Certainly any new processor and platform, like the new P55 chipset, is benchmarked to death. If you take a sort of metacritic approach to the reviews, you can get a pretty good picture of how the new platform behaves in a wide array of performance metrics.

However, I took a narrower view of Lynnfield testing: digital photography processing. How does the new platform compare to the older, but more powerful X58 platform? I ran a number of different benchmarks of actual photographic applications. Let’s see how Intel’s new mainstream quad core CPU shapes up for digital photographers. Read More »

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