Intel Skulltrail Benchmark and Analysis

Tom's Hardware has a detailed benchmark and analysis of Intel's new Skulltrail offering, taking a look at 8 vs 4 cores. The comparison uses games, A/V applications, office applications, and 3D rendering tools to help demonstrate benchmarks. "We were disappointed by the Skulltrail platform. Although we have tested and reviewed numerous Intel products, we have never had such a half-baked system such as this in our labs. If this sounds harsh, bear in mind that all we have to base this conclusion on is the Skulltrail system itself in its current state, which Intel provided as an official review platform. We do not know whether Intel plans to revise and improve the platform before the final versions ship to retail."

Missing from the review:

[Stanistani]

"Although disappointing in performance, bikers and goths will probably be enthusiatic about the 'Skulltrail' name, and get new, annoying tattoos."

Re:Missing from the review:

[liquidf]

yeah the name turns me off too. now if it was skullfucking, however...

Re:A question

[UID30]

No no ... you're doing it wrong. The REAL benefit of 8 cores is that you can get some work done while the Storm Worm is busily taking over the world.

Page 1 of 25

[Anonymous Coward]

At the bottom of the linked page I saw "Page 1 of 25" and I gave up. Bad submitter! Bad! Bad!

Someone at intel likes DETHKLOK

[bmajik]

"Nathan Explosion, front man of Dethklok, sums up the new processors performance:"

Skulltrail is FUCKING BRUTAL

Re:A question

[gandhi_2]

That's what you think. I'm working on a scalable multi-thread port of Storm Worm. Check out our site at http://sourceforge.net/ [sourceforge.net]

Where this processor excels...

[tyler_larson]

Where this processor truly shines, and this was unfortunately not reflected in their report, is in running 8 concurrent instances of the benchmark suite.

Re:Page 1 of 25

[poot_rootbeer]

At the bottom of the linked page I saw "Page 1 of 25" and I gave up.

I used an 8-core CPU to read the article and was able to get through it in just a little more time than a 3-page article would take.