Intel is confident, with a few benchmark exceptions, that it will still have the fastest x86 processor in the market following today's launch of AMD's Barcelona Opteron processor. "We feel quite good about our performance," Kirk Skaugen, general manager for Intel's server platforms group, told vnunet.com in an interview on 5 September. AMD had claimed that its processor would outpace Intel's by 25 to 30 per cent on certain workloads.
The chipmaker has consistently highlighted Barcelona's performance on the SpecFP_rate2006 benchmark, which shows the performance of floating point calculations common in scientific modelling applications. But Skaugen argued that the benchmark represents only three per cent of the workloads in the enterprise, and that companies depend mostly on a chip's performance for Java, web, transaction and integer applications.
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The chipmaker has consistently highlighted Barcelona's performance on the SpecFP_rate2006 benchmark, which shows the performance of floating point calculations common in scientific modelling applications. But Skaugen argued that the benchmark represents only three per cent of the workloads in the enterprise, and that companies depend mostly on a chip's performance for Java, web, transaction and integer applications.
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Wtf are you mumbling about?
First is idle, second is load.
Dual Opteron 2350 - 188W - 299.9W
Dual Xeon 5345 - 257W - 347.3W
I think he just wants to start an AMD/Intel war....bleh.
What part of "Quad-Core Processor" don't you understand? Don't confuse this with their "Quad-Socket" Projects, which are completely different.
If you slap one of those Phenoms, that are coming out later, onto one of those 4x4 boards, also coming out later, you'll end up with a 16 core system...pretty sweet, considering the NUMA means that such a system will not be choked for internal system bandwidth, as it is designed to increase bandwidth for every core it has.
I think he just wants to start an AMD/Intel war....bleh.
Or the guy is an idiot.
The current Intel Quad core glues together two dual cores. AMD instead decided to take 4 single cores and create what they call a 'native quad core'. Their explanation is that it yields higher performance and reduced power consumption.
The question that needs to be asked, however, is whether the added complication actually benefited their processor design in the long run.
Take Sun's own T2 processor; sure, its got 8 cores but the cores are *very* basic in design, and hence, glueing them together was relatively easy. For some reason, however, if AMD does go the route of 'native 8 core' they're going to end up biting off more than they can chew unless of cource they majorly simplify their core design.
What part of "Quad-Core Processor" don't you understand? Don't confuse this with their "Quad-Socket" Projects, which are completely different.
If you slap one of those Phenoms, that are coming out later, onto one of those 4x4 boards, also coming out later, you'll end up with a 16 core system...pretty sweet, considering the NUMA means that such a system will not be choked for internal system bandwidth, as it is designed to increase bandwidth for every core it has.
Numa numa iei, numa numa numa iei, dragostea din tei?
What part of "Quad-Core Processor" don't you understand? Don't confuse this with their "Quad-Socket" Projects, which are completely different.
If you slap one of those Phenoms, that are coming out later, onto one of those 4x4 boards, also coming out later, you'll end up with a 16 core system...pretty sweet, considering the NUMA means that such a system will not be choked for internal system bandwidth, as it is designed to increase bandwidth for every core it has.
Numa numa iei, numa numa numa iei, dragostea din tei?
haha
Or the guy is an idiot.
The current Intel Quad core glues together two dual cores. AMD instead decided to take 4 single cores and create what they call a 'native quad core'. Their explanation is that it yields higher performance and reduced power consumption.
The question that needs to be asked, however, is whether the added complication actually benefited their processor design in the long run.
Take Sun's own T2 processor; sure, its got 8 cores but the cores are *very* basic in design, and hence, glueing them together was relatively easy. For some reason, however, if AMD does go the route of 'native 8 core' they're going to end up biting off more than they can chew unless of cource they majorly simplify their core design.[/quote]
For 8 core AMD is going to be going to 2 die on one package like Intel does with their quad core. 45nm is too big to make affordable 8 core processors.
Wait a little longer. This isn't quite ready for Desktop systems, great for servers, tho.
Phenom will be out soon, wait for those.
Wait a little longer. This isn't quite ready for Desktop systems, great for servers, tho.
Phenom will be out soon, wait for those.
Sun's AMD workstations are pretty cheap; don't be surprised if you see them in there in the next month once they come into volume.
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