More Dual PowerPC 970 Info...

[jared_kipe]

Dual G5 with one CPUs, or Quad G5 with two CPUs.

 

[macsrus]

Though with the G5 being a new technology the recommendation was to wait for Rev. B. It seems that there is possibility dual core is due to be released at MWSF '05. If so that means that the Rev. B, would mean waiting a least another year. 😱

I can only hope to see a quad processor in the xserve running at 3 GHZ or better by the end of 2 Quarter next year....
If so I can see us buying between 2000 to 2500 of em...

 

[macsrus]

Note that IBM/Apple needs to double the amount of memory bandwidth per chip in order to maintain performance.

If the dual-core chips shares one memory bus (for example, if the dual-core chip (or 2) are dropped into the current G5 architecture) then the memory bandwidth *per CPU* will be halved.

That's gotta hurt.

They'll need to double the speed of the bus, double the number of busses, or double the width of the bus to maintain the current balance of memory bandwidth per CPU.

There is a very good chance that the dual core will get a memory controller on die with it

 

[wdlove]

I can only hope to see a quad processor in the xserve running at 3 GHZ or better by the end of 2 Quarter next year....
If so I can see us buying between 2000 to 2500 of em...

You must be working for a rather large business. So you think that the dual core technology will come out on the Xserve first?