AMD's Six-Core Istanbul Opterons

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday June 2, 2009 @12:16AM from the nothing-outruns-my-v8-ford dept.

EconolineCrush writes "AMD's latest 'Istanbul' Opterons add two cores per socket, for a grand total of six. Despite the extra cores, these new chips reside within the same power envelope as existing quad-core Opterons, and they're drop-in compatible with current systems. The Tech Report has an in-depth review of the new chips, comparing their performance and power efficiency with that of Intel's Nehalem-based Xeons. Istanbul fares surprisingly well, particularly when one considers its performance-power ratio with highly parallelized workloads."

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Re:Wasn't it called Constantinople? by Anonymous Coward · 2009-06-02 00:43 · Score: 0, Flamebait

It *was* Constantinople; now it's Istanbul. NOT Constantinople. So, if you have a date in Constantinople, she'll be waiting in Istanbul.
Business of the Turks relates primarily to the reasons behind the decision to give Constantinople "The Works."
Re: by chrispitude · 2009-06-02 01:24 · Score: 0, Flamebait

And nothing of value was posted.