Quad Core Battle, Intel Yorkfield vs AMD Altair

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Quad Core Battle, Intel Yorkfield vs AMD Altair

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Wednesday October 4, 2006 @02:36AM from the four-is-way-more-than-three dept.

Joe writes "Yorkfield Extreme Edition based on the 45nm Penry core architecture will meet heads-on with AMD Altair based on the 65nm K8L core in Q3 2007 as reported by VR-Zone. Due to its advanced 45nm process technology, Yorkfield XE is able to pack a total of 12MB L2 cache (2 x 6MB L2) and still achieving a much smaller die size and higher clock speed of 3.43-3.73Ghz. Yorkfield will feature Penryn New Instructions (PNI) or more officially known as SSE4 with 50 more new instructions. Yorkfield XE will pair up nicely with the Bearlake-X chipset supporting DDR3 1333, PCI Express 2.0 and ICH9x coming in the Q3 '07 timeframe as well."

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I for one... by Demanche · 2006-10-04 02:39 · Score: 5, Funny

I for one... Will... wait for those 80 core CPU's intel said they will have in a 'few' years. I'll refuse to upgrade till I get one! :D

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Altair? by gEvil+(beta) · 2006-10-04 02:43 · Score: 2, Funny

Ooooh. Blinkenlights on a processor!

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Competition rocks by mattnuzum · 2006-10-04 02:45 · Score: 4, Funny

I've said it before, I'll say it again: This is exactly why competition rocks. Soon, we'll say Moore was no prophet, he was a pessimist!
Ah Numbers... by glowingsnowball · 2006-10-04 02:48 · Score: 2, Funny

Processer speed as well as cores are just numbers to me. The only thing high processer speed means to me is that I am able to write unefficient code and get away with it. For(int i = 0; i9000;i++){For(int j = 0; j9000;j++){For(int l = 0; l9000;l++){System.out.println("More Cores")}}}

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1. Re:Ah Numbers... by bobtheinsanecow · 2006-10-04 03:14 · Score: 2, Funny
  
  // May as well use all the cores... int i,j,l; fork(); fork(); for(i = 0; i<9000;i++) for(j = 0; j<9000;j++) for(l = 0; l<9000;l++) printf("More Cores");
  
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Re:One sided by LarsWestergren · 2006-10-04 02:54 · Score: 4, Funny

Ok, so we have all this neat info about the Intel chip; what about the AMD processor (it gets a whole sentence and a half)? If this is supposed to be a "battle", it seems that most of the comparison has already been done in favor of Intel before the event even takes place, if this article is any reference. :P

Ooh, but dont' count out AMD yet! According to the nifty diagram from TFA, the Windsor has a "HT1.0", and the Altair a "HT3.0", and I can't see anything like that for the Intel processors. I don't know what a HT1.0 is, but I'm TERRIBLY excited about it, let me tell you.

More bullet points or higher numbers in a press release indicates a superior system much more clearly than any real life performance tests.

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Re: No more instructions!! by dp_wiz · 2006-10-04 03:13 · Score: 2, Funny

That 80-cored chips definitely would require a desperate bureaucracy to operate.