Penryn is the code name for Intel’s Next Generation Intel® Core™ 2 Family processor microarchitecture. It is also the name of the industry’s first 45 nm microprocessor. It is an improvement on the Core Microarchitecture introduced last year. It delivers more performance at the same clock speed compared to our Core 2 Duo processors. It is a dual core product with a shared 6 MB L2 cache.
Intel’s 45 nm High-K Metal Gate Silicon Technology allows Penryn to run at higher clock frequency than its predecessor. It features 47 new Intel SSE instructions designed to enhance Media, Graphic and Gaming. We have measured >20% perf improvement on existing games compared to today’s fastest dual core processors, and more than 40 percent for gaming and video encoding with Intel SSE4 optimized video encoders. But of course, as with any performance claims “Your Mileage May Vary”.
