Posted on 03/29/2010 12:06:58 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
AMD's 12-core "Magny-Cours" Opteron 6174 vs. Intel's 6-core Xeon
If the Westmere Xeon EP were a car engine, it would've been made by Porsche. With "only" six cores, each core in the new Xeon offers almost twice the performance of the competition. A 32nm CPU that only occupies 248 mm2 the Westmere Xeon EP embodies pure refinement and intelligent performance, both Porsche traits. It's just made in Portland, not Zuffenhausen.
AMD's offering today is very different. Magny-cours is the CPU version of the American muscle car. It's a brutally large 12-core CPU: two dies, each measuring 346mm2 connected by a massive 24 link Hyper Transport pipe. AMD's Magny-cours Opteron has almost two billion transistors and 19.6MB of cache on-die.
ESX farms across the country are going to eat this thing up!
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Magny-Cours
You probably heard by now that the new Opteron 6100 is in fact two 6-core Istanbul CPUs bolted together. That is not too far from the truth if you look at the micro architecture: little has changed inside the core. It is the “uncore” that has changed significantly: the memory controller now supports DDR-1333, and a lot of time has been invested in keeping cache coherency traffic under control. The 1944-pin (!) organic Land Grid Array (LGA) Multi Chip Module (MCM) is pictured below.
The red lines are memory channels, blue lines internal HT cache coherent connects. The gray lines are external cache HT connections, while the green line is a simple non coherent I/O HT connect.
x86?
My initial reaction at first as well.
I wonder exactly how tight Apple’s deal with Intel is. At what point can they switch to AMD?
At the time of the switch AMD was the winner, but Jobs had access to information that showed Intel would be the winner for years with the upcoming Core architecture. Well, it’s years later now, and AMD is looking good again.
I will - when I find a job;-{)
Does this mean that we’ll finally be able to play Crysis at max settings?
Just wondering if VMware will run on these puppies.
Core 2 Quad Extreme Launch and QX6700 Review - PAGE 1
William Henning - Wednesday, November 1st, 2006
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Finally we get to publish the "straight scoop" on Intel's new Kentsfield Core 2 Quad processor. We spent the last few weeks with Intel's QX6700 and today we're reporting on our findings. But first, let's talk a little about Core 2 Quad in general.
If you're not already familiar with Kentsfield, it is Intel's newest processor sporting 4 cores, aka "Core 2 Quad". The outstanding Core 2 Duo, codenamed Conroe, of course is a 2 core part, and Kentsfield is its Quad core sibbling.
As you know, the Core 2 Duo is a true dual 
Now why would Intel do this?
X86_64 .... with all the Virtualization goodies I think.
>”Man that is old stuff”
Man, that’s what I said!
Sweet.
The Desktop Thuban is a few months away from announcement,...it will be an AM3 socket chip from the Istanbul server chip which has been out for awhile and which form the chips packaged into the Magny-cours .
Do you do that stuff on your home page?
Thought that was doable right now with processors currently available...but I am not a gamer.
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