Intel shows off quad core chips:
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New Intel PowerMacs quad-core? 2x4...or 8 cores total?
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Imagine the performance of a 100 core chip.
It's inevitable that quad cores will become common but I think it will be a little while before we see them in Powermacs. I think the cost would be to high considering most apps aren't ready for 4 processors yet.
It's inevitable that quad cores will become common but I think it will be a little while before we see them in Powermacs. I think the cost would be to high considering most apps aren't ready for 4 processors yet.Josh396 said:Imagine the performance of a 100 core chip.
Better yet, a beowolf cluster of quad 100 core chip machines
The quad, dual-core system I'm using now (I call it "Eight is Enough") is so fast I'm surfing Sunday's MacRumor's page. I don't want to give anything away, but it's is going to be a big day.
Quad PowerPC G5 with 8 cores.........
I got lost there bigtime! What were you trying to say ?
a.) Powermac Quad has 8 cores ? - wrong
b.) 8 cores per system is enough ? - ?
Hope at least that if you really spent so much money on a Quad that you filled it up with Ram and a Ati X850 XT or nVidia 7800 GT... your browser loads even faster!
Quad with 1 Gb & nVidia 6600 can't be enough!
verb said:
I got lost there bigtime! What were you trying to say ?
a.) Powermac Quad has 8 cores ? - wrong
b.) 8 cores per system is enough ? - ?
Hope at least that if you really spent so much money on a Quad that you filled it up with Ram and a Ati X850 XT or nVidia 7800 GT...
your browser loads even faster!Quad with 1 Gb & nVidia 6600 can't be enough!
p:ro said:I got lost there bigtime! What were you trying to say ?
a.) Powermac Quad has 8 cores ? - wrong
b.) 8 cores per system is enough ? - ?
Hope at least that if you really spent so much money on a Quad that you filled it up with Ram and a Ati X850 XT or nVidia 7800 GT...
Quad with 1 Gb & nVidia 6600 can't be enough!
It's a joke Joyce.
sarcasm
I know that he was sarcastic, but I was sarcastic too.
The Sony PS3 will have 8 cores...
A fast Intel Quad
Quad 64-bit Intel® Xeon® Processor 7040 at 3.0 GHz | 2x2MB L2 cache | 667FSB | Dual-Core
Price for Processors upgrade ONLY!!! at Dell +CHF 31'470.00 (swissFrancs)
Can't be much more expensive || I hope someone runs X-Bench on those systems...
I know that he was sarcastic, but I was sarcastic too.
hh83917 said:
The Sony PS3 will have 8 cores...
A fast Intel Quad
Quad 64-bit Intel® Xeon® Processor 7040 at 3.0 GHz | 2x2MB L2 cache | 667FSB | Dual-Core
Price for Processors upgrade ONLY!!! at Dell +CHF 31'470.00 (swissFrancs)
Can't be much more expensive
|| I hope someone runs X-Bench on those systems...
p:ro said:I know that he was sarcastic, but I was sarcastic too.
The Sony PS3 will have 8 cores...
A fast Intel Quad
Quad 64-bit Intel® Xeon® Processor 7040 at 3.0 GHz | 2x2MB L2 cache | 667FSB | Dual-Core
Price for Processors upgrade ONLY!!! at Dell +CHF 31'470.00 (swissFrancs)
Can't be much more expensive
the ps3 has one in order crummy ass powerpc core and 7 SPE's (one redundant) which are basically really wide altivec units, to say it's an 8 core cpu is akin to calling the G4 a tri core cpu (powerpc+ 2x altivec units)
Core
Yeah "8 Cores" is maybe the wrong term for 1 PowerPC Processing Element (PPE) and 7 The Synergistic Processing Element (SPE)... Nevertheless "Crummy Ass PowerPC with a bunch of altivecs ?"
"the result is a processing core that operates at a high frequency with relatively low power consumption, and perhaps relatively poorer scalar performance compared to the beefy POWER5 processor core"
CELL
http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT021005084318&p=1
dual quadcore & CELL |||||| 2 different philosophies
quadcore chip - still don't know what price that chip will target ... holy cow
Yeah "8 Cores" is maybe the wrong term for 1 PowerPC Processing Element (PPE) and 7 The Synergistic Processing Element (SPE)... Nevertheless "Crummy Ass PowerPC with a bunch of altivecs ?"
"the result is a processing core that operates at a high frequency with relatively low power consumption, and perhaps relatively poorer scalar performance compared to the beefy POWER5 processor core"
CELL
http://www.realworldtech.com/page.cfm?ArticleID=RWT021005084318&p=1
dual quadcore & CELL |||||| 2 different philosophies
quadcore chip - still don't know what price that chip will target ... holy cow
jacobj said:
Um, Windows 2000 already supports multicore just fine. IIRC Win2k server supports up to 32 processors...