Official 16-core mac pro waiting club - now open

[williedigital]

I prefer to think

of cpu's in terms of combined computing power. a 2.5 Xeon * 8 cores should be 20 ghz of cpu power. I'll jump when the cpu power is in the 50-60 range, regardless of how many cores that is.

 

[gojaromeiginla]

Interesting way of looking at it. It still doesn't hurt to look at it in real terms, but I agree that 50-60 in your measuring system should be when we see a big jump.

 

[Lord Nerdos]

Perhaps Apple is going to skip the all 8-core lineup and go straight for a combined 8-core and 16-core mac pro lineup???

 

[triotary]

With 16 cores you could edit several video-projects simultaneously!

If only the human brain had 16 cores.

And you would need 32 hands.
That´s 320 fingers.

I guess that you don't know that your brain not only has a processing capacity of 100 trillion instructions per second, but it is massively parallel and interwoven, and it is simultaneously regulating the heartbeat, monitoring oxygen levels, hunger and thirst requirements, breathing patterns and hundreds of other essential factors throughout the body. It is simultaneously comparing data from the eyes and the sensory cells in the arms and hands to keep track of the position of the pen and paper as the calculation is being performed. It quickly traverses a vast, interconnected network of cells for relevant information on how to solve the problem it is presented, what symbols to write and what their functions are, as it graphs their shape and communicates to the hand how to make accurate and controlled strokes to draw recognizable shapes and numbers onto a page.

Not in a billions of years that a computer with 35759806704958679048576890456 cores could perform and behave like your brain sitting inside your skull now.

 

[Tallest Skil]

Not in a billions of years that a computer with 35759806704958679048576890456 cores could perform and behave like your brain sitting inside your skull now.

Tell that to the scientists who say they'll have an artificial intelligence equal to that of a human by 2050. Or the guys who plan to beat the human World Cup champions with a robot team in the same year...

 

[takao]

Not in a billions of years that a computer with 35759806704958679048576890456 cores could perform and behave like your brain sitting inside your skull now.

too bad that the brain has a notorious bad memory system: unreliable and slow writing speeds

 

[Nightfall]

Was That MM a few posts back?? Welcome back MULTIMEDIA> Glad you're no longer banned!!

 

[72930]

Was That MM a few posts back?? Welcome back MULTIMEDIA> Glad you're no longer banned!!

That was from before the ban

 

[eXan]

That was from before the ban

What was he banned for?

 

[Nightfall]

Thanks Psychofreak -- doesn't take much to confuse me. I don't know about 16 core but plan now to wait for Nahalen. Quickpath -- no FSB sounds veeery interesting.

 

[Lesser Evets]

F' the cores. Lets talk CHORES. When is this thing going to do the laundry and clean my house, dammit.

 

[rsmcool]

I think that the upcoming 2009 Mac Pros will remain at 8.

I'm holding of til 2010.

Meanwhile, I've got to cope with a $2000 NEW computer (Early 2008 MBP), that is SOMEHOW underpowered.

 

[dr. shdw]

I think that the upcoming 2009 Mac Pros will remain at 8.

I'm holding of til 2010.

Meanwhile, I've got to cope with a $2000 NEW computer (Early 2008 MBP), that is SOMEHOW underpowered.

This thread is a year and a half old..

Really?

 

[Mackilroy]

This thread is a year and a half old..

Really?

Note the 'newbie' tag underneath the name.

It's almost ALWAYS a newbie dragging up old threads.

 

[Umbongo]

Note the 'newbie' tag underneath the name.

It's almost ALWAYS a newbie dragging up old threads.

I think it is due to google. For example this thread is the first link on a google search of "16 core mac pro".

 

[Zyniker]

I think it is due to google. For example this thread is the first link on a google search of "16 core mac pro".

Proof that Google is evil: it practices necromancy.

 

[Umbongo]

Proof that Google is evil: it practices necromancy.

 

[DoFoT9]

im waiting, i cant afford it though

 

[OrangeSVTguy]

No it's proof that n00bz actually uses a search engine .

 

[nanofrog]

No it's proof that n00bz actually uses a search engine .

Which is a wonderful thing to see.

 

[barkmonster]

Why would anyone want such poor memory bandwidth?

There would be 32 threads per clock cycle too because of Out of Order execution.

this article on the 8 core Mac Pro shows only 350Mb/s per core. DDR3 will obviously offer far more bandwidth but with twice as many cores, it might end up being roughly the same bandwidth per core, maybe even less.

 

[Mackilroy]

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Note the 'newbie' tag underneath the name.

It's almost ALWAYS a newbie dragging up old threads.

I think it is due to google. For example this thread is the first link on a google search of "16 core mac pro".

Still, if you find a post via Google and then register just to reply, are you never going to look at the last post date?

 

[Umbongo]

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Still, if you find a post via Google and then register just to reply, are you never going to look at the last post date?

Well I've found myself not doing it on certain sites before, and I'm sure there are many who aren't familiar with forum software so...

 

[Firefly2002]

For all those who bought the current, and soon to be replaced, mac pro, a thread to focus on our next mac pros...

What would you guys like to see in the 3rd incarnation of the mac pro?

Sh nerd ~~

 

[Tallest Skil]

Sh nerd ~~

You'll notice the date on his post. The Penryn Xeon wasn't even out yet.