AMD Announces Triple-Core Phenom Processors

Posted by Zonk on Monday September 17, 2007 @03:26PM from the chips-that-don't-require-dipping dept.

MojoKid writes "AMD has officially announced their triple-core Phenom multi-core processor offering, suggesting a triple-threat of processors, from dual-cores to triple-cores and native quad-cores coming to market this year. While the term symmetric multi-processing (or SMP) suggests a balanced approach of multiple cores in an even number of engines working together on a single workload, AMD offers that an odd number of processors can slice at that workload just as efficiently. Time will tell how this architecture will scale amongst various multi-threaded applications and real-world usage models. AMD is definitely moving to make use of these quad-cores that don't quite make the cut by testing them fully as triple-cores and realizing some revenue, rather than throwing them away."

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Re:I wonder how many GHz these can crank out by Anonymous Coward · 2007-09-17 17:53 · Score: -1, Troll

My experience with dual core has been that it either offers *no* benefit to games, or causes it to crash unless you make the game run on a single processor. Oh and btw the scumbags who use driver level protection won't let you use a utility to modify the binary to run single processor - you have to manually set it up every time.
Really, I don't get what dual processors have bought us. Since the only cpu intensive thing I use my computer for is games I've been seriously disappointed at having gone that route. Maybe software needs to start working correctly with 2 cores before they worry about packing in more.