Die Lynnfield CPU

With Lynnfield Intel presents Bloomfields smaller brother which should show it's muscles especially in the mainstream market. In direct comparison to Bloomfield, Lynnfield is equipped with a dual-channel instead of a triple-channel memory interface. The i5 models have no hyperthreading but every single Lynnfield CPU comes with an enhanced Turbo-Mode. Intels arguments for a Turbo-Mode which is able to dynamically overclock the CPU by up to 666 MHz or in other word five multiplyer stpes is, that most of the software on the market is still not optimized for multithreaded CPUs and therefore the user mainly profits from higher clock speeds than massive parallelism.

Already with the Bloomfield Intel has been very proud of the scalability of Nehalems architecture, respectively the relative easyness to adapt the architecture to different markets. As a consequence it isn't a surprise that there weren't many changes on the "Die" itself. The only conspicuity is the fact that the Lynnfield CPUs carry about 40 million more transistors than their Bloomfield equivalents.