Intel Core i7-920 (AT80601000741AA / BX80601920 / BXC80601920)

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Specifications

Official launch of the Core i7 microprocessor family in November 2008 included first three members of the family - i7-920, i7-940 and i7-965 Extreme Edition. The slowest from these three processors, and so far the slowest from the whole i7-9xx lineup, is the Core i7-920. Despite of its relatively low core frequency, "just" 2.67 GHz, the i7-920 performs as good of better than Core 2 Quad Q9650, the fastest Core 2 Quad microprocessor running at 3 GHz. Thanks to HyperThreading feature, Core i7-920's advantage is especially impressive in heavy multi-threaded media applications - in some applications the Core i7 processor is up to 35% faster than the Q9650. Performance of the i7-920 in games is less impressive. Depending on the game, the CPU may be faster or slower than the Q9650 by up to 10%, and on average it performs on a par with the Q9650.

General information

Type

CPU / Microprocessor

Market segment

Desktop

Family

Intel Core i7

Model number ?

i7-920

CPU part numbers

AT80601000741AA is an OEM/tray microprocessor
BX80601920 is a boxed processor (English version)
BXC80601920 is a boxed processor (Chinese version)

Frequency ?

2667 MHz

Turbo frequency

2933 MHz (1 core)
2800 MHz (2 cores or more)

Bus speed ?

2400 MHz QPI

Package

1366-land Flip-Chip Land Grid Array (FC-LGA8)

Socket

Socket 1366 (LGA1366)

Weight

1.2oz / 33.2g

Fan/heatsink

E29477-002

Introduction date

Nov 17, 2008

Price at introduction

$284

S-spec numbers

	ES/QS processors		Production processors
Part number	Q1CM	Q1H7	SLBCH	SLBEJ
AT80601000741AA	+	+	+	+
BX80601920			+	+
BXC80601920			+	+

Architecture / Microarchitecture

Microarchitecture

Nehalem (Nehalem)

Platform

X58

Processor core ?

Bloomfield

Core steppings ?

C0 (SLBCH)
D0 (Q1H7, SLBEJ)

CPUIDs

106A4 (SLBCH)
106A5 (Q1H7, SLBEJ)

Manufacturing process

0.045 micron Hi-k metal gate technology
731 million transistors

Die size

263mm²

Data width

64 bit

The number of cores

The number of threads

Floating Point Unit

Integrated

Level 1 cache size ?

4 x 32 KB instruction caches
4 x 32 KB data caches

Level 2 cache size ?

4 x 256 KB

Level 3 cache size

Inclusive shared 8 MB cache

Multiprocessing

Uniprocessor

Features

MMX instruction set
SSE
SSE2
SSE3
Supplemental SSE3
SSE4.1 ?
SSE4.2 ?
EM64T technology ?
Hyper-Threading technology ?
Turbo Boost technology ?
Virtualization technology ?
Execute Disable bit ?

Low power features

Thread C1, C3 and C6 states
Core C1, C3 and C6 states
Package C3 and C6 states
Enhanced SpeedStep technology ?

On-chip peripherals

Integrated triple-channel DDR3 SDRAM Memory controller
Quick Path Interconnect

Electrical/Thermal parameters

V core ?

0.8V - 1.375V

Minimum/Maximum operating temperature ?

5°C - 67.9°C

Minimum/Maximum power dissipation ?

15 Watt (TDP in C6 state) / 230.14 Watt

Thermal Design Power ?

130 Watt

Notes on Intel AT80601000741AA

Memory controller supports DDR3-800 and DDR3-1066 memory

CPUs, related to Intel Core i7-920

Model Cores /
Threads Freq. Turbo
freq. L3
cache TDP Features

Intel Core i7 family, Socket 1366

   Intel Core i7-930 4 / 8 2.8 GHz 3.06 GHz 8 MB 130 Watt

   Intel Core i7-940 4 / 8 2.93 GHz 3.2 GHz 8 MB 130 Watt

   Intel Core i7-950 4 / 8 3.06 GHz 3.33 GHz 8 MB 130 Watt

   Intel Core i7-960 4 / 8 3.2 GHz 3.46 GHz 8 MB 130 Watt

   Intel Core i7-970 6 / 12 3.2 GHz 3.46 GHz 12 MB 130 Watt AES

   Intel Core i7-980 6 / 12 3.33 GHz 3.6 GHz 12 MB 130 Watt AES

Intel Core i7 family, Nehalem micro-architecture, Other sockets

   Intel Core i7-860S 4 / 8 2.53 GHz 3.46 GHz 8 MB 82 Watt TXT

   Intel Core i7-860 4 / 8 2.8 GHz 3.46 GHz 8 MB 95 Watt TXT

   Intel Core i7-870S 4 / 8 2.66 GHz 3.6 GHz 8 MB 82 Watt TXT

   Intel Core i7-870 4 / 8 2.93 GHz 3.6 GHz 8 MB 95 Watt TXT

   Intel Core i7-875K 4 / 8 2.93 GHz 3.6 GHz 8 MB 95 Watt Unlock

   Intel Core i7-880 4 / 8 3.06 GHz 3.73 GHz 8 MB 95 Watt TXT

Other families, Nehalem micro-architecture, Socket 1366

   Intel Core i7-965 4 / 8 3.2 GHz 3.46 GHz 8 MB 130 Watt Unlock

   Intel Core i7-975 4 / 8 3.33 GHz 3.6 GHz 8 MB 130 Watt Unlock

   Intel Core i7-980X 6 / 12 3.33 GHz 3.6 GHz 12 MB 130 Watt AES, Unlock

   Intel Core i7-990X 6 / 12 3.46 GHz 3.73 GHz 12 MB 130 Watt AES, Unlock

• Highlighted numbers and features indicate whether specific processor performs better or worse than Core i7-920

• Within each category, the CPUs are sorted from slower (at the top) to faster (at the bottom)

• Features abbreviations:

AES - AES instructions
TXT - Trusted Execution
Unlock - Unlocked multiplier

Pictures (6)


Box - back view
2009-07-28 15:29:57 Posted by: gshv


Side view
2009-07-28 15:33:20 Posted by: gshv


Front view
2009-07-28 15:36:31 Posted by: gshv


Intel Core i7 I7-920 box
2009-07-28 15:42:31 Posted by: gshv
Design of boxed Intel Core i7 is somewhat similar to design of Core 2 Duo E8x00 and Core 2 Quad Q9xxx CPUs - blue-color box with family logo on the front, top and left sides, detailed CPU information on the right side, and see-through windows on the top and back side. The top see-through window is smaller than on Core 2 boxes, and the width and height of Core i7 boxes is bigger than the size of Core 2 boxes - approximately by 1 inch (2.54 cm).

CPU - bottom view
2009-07-28 15:48:54 Posted by: gshv
Not only the size of the contact pads was decreased on Core i7 processors, but the shape of the pads was changed too.

Intel Core i7 I7-920 CPU
2009-07-28 15:54:18 Posted by: gshv

Benchmarks

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Tested processor

S-spec number:

SLBEJ

CPU ID:

06A5h

CPU vendor string:

GenuineIntel

CPU name string:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz

Integer performance

Part number		Result
Intel Core i7-860 ?		104.7%
AMD FX-Series FX-8120 ?		103.9%
AMD Phenom II X6 1035T ?		103.7%
Intel Core i5-760 ?		103.4%
Intel Core i5-2300 ?		101.5%
Intel Core i7-920 ?		100%
AMD Phenom II X4 980 ?		98.5%
Intel Core i5-750 ?		98.1%
AMD Phenom II X4 975 ?		95.8%
AMD Phenom II X4 970 (rev. C3) ?		93.1%
AMD Phenom II X4 970 (rev. E0) ?		93.1%

Floating Point performance

Part number		Result
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T ?		109.2%
Intel Core i7-940 ?		108%
Intel Core i7-2720QM (PGA) ?		106.1%
AMD Phenom II X6 1075T (non-BE) ?		102.4%
Intel Core i7-860 ?		102.1%
Intel Core i7-920 ?		100%
Intel Core i7-2670QM ?		100%
AMD Phenom II X6 1065T ?		98.9%
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (125W) ?		95.6%
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (95W) ?		95.5%
AMD Phenom II X6 1045T ?		92.3%

MMX / SSE / SSE2 performance

Part number		Result
AMD Phenom II X6 1075T (non-BE) ?		104%
Intel Core i7-860 ?		101.9%
AMD Phenom II X6 1065T ?		100.7%
Intel Core i5-2500 ?		100.2%
Intel Core i5-2500K ?		100.1%
Intel Core i7-920 ?		100%
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (125W) ?		97.4%
AMD Phenom II X6 1055T (95W) ?		97.3%
AMD FX-Series FX-8120 ?		95.6%
AMD Phenom II X6 1045T ?		93.9%
Intel Core i5-2400 ?		93.6%

Memory-intensive program performance

Part number		Result
AMD Phenom II X4 965 (140W, BE) ?		102.1%
AMD Phenom II X6 1090T ?		102%
Intel Core i5-670 ?		101.1%
AMD Phenom II X4 955 (95W, rev. C2, BE) ?		100.5%
Intel Core i5-2540M (PGA) ?		100.3%
Intel Core i7-920 ?		100%
AMD Phenom II X4 955 (125W, rev. C2) ?		99.5%
AMD Phenom II X4 B97 ?		99.3%
AMD Phenom II X4 955 (95W, rev. C3, BE) ?		99%
AMD Phenom II X4 960T ?		98.8%
AMD Phenom II X6 1075T (non-BE) ?		98.7%

CPU ID (5)

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Manufacturer:	Intel
CPU Family:	Core i7
Processor Number:	i7-920
Frequency:	2673 MHz

Part number:	AT80601000741AA
S-Spec Number:
Comment:
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General information
Vendor:	GenuineIntel
Processor name (BIOS):	Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU 920 @ 2.67GHz
Cores:	4
Logical processors:	8
Processor type:	Original OEM Processor
CPUID signature:	106A5
Family:	6 (06h)
Model:	26 (01Ah)
Stepping:	5 (05h)
TLB/Cache details:	64-byte Prefetching Data TLB0: 2-MB or 4-MB pages, 4-way associative, 32 entries Data TLB: 4-KB Pages, 4-way set associative, 64 entries Instruction TLB: 2-MB or 4-MB pages, fully associative, 7 entries Instruction TLB: 4-KB pages, 4-way set associative, 64 entries Shared 2nd-level TLB: 4 KB pages, 4-way set associative, 512 entries

Cache: L1 data L1 instruction L2 L3

Size: 4 x 32 KB 4 x 32 KB 4 x 256 KB 8 MB

Associativity: 8-way set
associative 4-way set
associative 8-way set
associative 16-way set
associative

Line size: 64 bytes 64 bytes 64 bytes 64 bytes

Comments: Shared between all cores

Instruction set extensions Additional instructions

MMX CLFLUSH

SSE CMOV

SSE2 CMPXCHG16B

SSE3 CMPXCHG8B

SSSE3 FXSAVE/FXRSTORE

SSE4.1 MONITOR/MWAIT

SSE4.2 POPCNT

SYSENTER/SYSEXIT

Major features Other features

On-chip Floating Point Unit 36-bit page-size extensions

64-bit / Intel 64 64-bit debug store

NX bit/XD-bit Advanced programmable interrupt controller

Hyper-Threading Technology CPL qualified debug store

Intel Virtualization Debug store

Turbo Boost Debugging extensions

Enhanced SpeedStep Digital Thermal Sensor capability

LAHF/SAHF support in 64-bit mode

Machine check architecture

Machine check exception

Memory-type range registers

Model-specific registers

Page attribute table

Page global extension

Page-size extensions (4MB pages)

Pending break enable

Perfmon and Debug capability

Physical address extensions

RDTSCP

Self-snoop

TSC rate is ensured to be invariant across all states

Thermal monitor

Thermal monitor 2

Thermal monitor and software controlled clock facilities

Time stamp counter

Virtual 8086-mode enhancements

xTPR Update Control

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Comments (1)

Nehalem Architecture, Bloomfield Core

2009-03-11 02:58:10

Posted by: Leland

Just thought i should mention this, You have Nehalem as the processor core, the actual core name of the current core i7 9xx series processors is Bloomfield. Nehalem is just the name of the 45nm architecture that the current i7 and the upcoming mainstream core i5 processors are produced under. Just thought i'd give you the heads up.

Last modified: 13 Feb 2012