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AMD's Dual-core Athlon 64 X2 reviewed
ChocolateJesus writes "Weeks after formally announcing its dual-core Athlon X2 desktop processor, reviews are finally trickling out. The Tech Report's coverage tests two flavors of the Athlon 64 X2 against a whopping 17 competitors, including AMD and Intel's fastest single- and dual-core offerings. They've even thrown in a handful of dual-processor systems (and dual-core, dual-processor systems) for good measure. Testing focuses on multi-threaded applications, and the X2s deliver remarkable performance. Perhaps even more impressive is the fact that unlike Intel's dual-core Pentiums, AMD's X2s consume no more power than single-core chips." Looks like this story has come out of embargo - if you've find more reviews, post them in comments.
While the AMD 64 X2 Dualcore is impressive, I am still waiting for the AMD 69 XXX Hardcore myself.
Sorry, it just had to be said.
forget longer pipelines, it's girth that really counts
$ strings FTP.EXE | grep Copyright
@(#) Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
That a lot of applications are not multithreaded. Thus wont get the speed advantage of the Duel-Core processor.
Thats because the two cores are too busy fighting.
Easy. Multi-threaded electricity.
What a lot of people dont realize (Including a lot of programmers). That a lot of applications are not multithreaded. Thus wont get the speed advantage of the Duel-Core processor.
Correct. Instead of executing the code in parallel, both cores will fight to the death for the privilege. Since only one core survives, you don't really get much benefit from duel-core processors.
Nothing sexier than a 16slot Blade server running Dual-Core Opterons. Equivelent of 32 cpus in 5u of space.
MMMmmm...mmm...mmm...mmm...SEXY!
DAMN YOU OCTODOG! DAMN YOU TO HELL!
Even 16 slot blade servers running octo dualcore Opterons systems?
"The way we can tell it's C# instead of Haskell is because it's nine lines instead of two." -- wadler
An 32-bit comparison of an 64-bit processor. This is exactly what I look for when I need to know which cpu to buy...
There can only be one core!
Have you seen the specs required for Longhorn!
Let me guess, if one gets hurt, is it only a flash wound?
Dogma - "let's just say we'd like to avoid any empirical entanglements."
Close, it's the quantum nature of the electrons; each core shares all it's electons. In core 0 a quantum filter is applied so computations are done on spin up electrons; core 1 uses spin down. In order to move larger numbers of cores you have to use something with more than two states -- QCD confinment makes it tricky to get the necessary free quarks. That, however, is just an engineering issue and we'll soon be able get cpu's in any color you want.
I knew there was something to that whole super-string theory business...
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
It'd be like trying to mate an orange tree to a potato plant.
or maybe a tomato plant with a tobacco plant?
Does it run on the other core? ;)
Analogies don't equal equalities, they are merely somewhat analogous.
Apparently it does, as it too is slashdotted. :)