New Intel PowerMacs quad-core? 2x4...or 8 cores total?

[hh83917]

Intel shows off quad core chips:
http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-6038148.html?part=rss&tag=6038148&subj=news

 

[Josh396]

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.

 

[verb]

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.

 

[p:ro]

Quad PowerPC G5 with 8 cores.........

(I call it "Eight is Enough")

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!

 

[Chundles]

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!

It's a joke Joyce.

 

[p:ro]

sarcasm

I know that he was sarcastic, but I was sarcastic too.

Intel shows off quad core chips:
http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-6038148.html?part=rss&tag=6038148&subj=news

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...

 

[Mord]

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...

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)

 

[p:ro]

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

 

[jacobj]

Intel are pushing multi-core processors a lot at the moment and I believe Vista will support multi-cores, so the drive from these two big guys may well push developers down the same route... let's hope so...

 

[Catfish_Man]

Intel are pushing multi-core processors a lot at the moment and I believe Vista will support multi-cores, so the drive from these two big guys may well push developers down the same route... let's hope so...

Um, Windows 2000 already supports multicore just fine. IIRC Win2k server supports up to 32 processors...