On the other hand, it's main competitor is quite confident in the possibilities of Penryn. Should it be necessary, it looks like they can raise the working frequency of the CPU to 4 Ghz, some leaks indicate.

The sheer notion of Intel getting behind in the clock-for-clock battle doesn't seem very realistic, though. Just take a look at these benchmarks:

- a 115.63% increment in DivX encoding speed (thanks to SSE4)

- a 31.12% fps gain under Half Life 2 (thanks to the bigger cache?)

- a huge reduction in power consumption (thanks to the die shrink)

If you forgot about all the innovations the new processor will bring along, Daily Tech has an updated summary of all those changes, as well as a recap on different versions and the road ahead after Penryn.

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