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AMD's Six-Core Istanbul Opterons

Posted by kdawson on 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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  1. Istanbul runs your shells by smittyoneeach · · Score: 4, Funny

    Istanbul runs your shells
    Through shaves as tight as Dardanelles.
    Use Opteron and the gallant foamy,
    And thus avoid Gallipoli.
    Burma Shave

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    1. Re:Istanbul runs your shells by drinkypoo · · Score: 5, Funny

      Istanbul was Constantinople
      Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
      So if you were waiting for a core called Constantinople
      It's been released as Istanbul.

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    2. Re:Istanbul runs your shells by smittyoneeach · · Score: 2, Funny

      The Turks are casual, until you name a chip "Armenian" or "Kurd".
      Then, not so much.

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  2. Wasn't it called Constantinople? by OzPeter · · Score: 5, Funny

    Or isn't that anyones business but the Turks?

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    1. Re:Wasn't it called Constantinople? by underqualified · · Score: 5, Funny

      no no no. that was the beta version.

  3. I won't be impressed until it is... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    Over 9000!!!!1

  4. Fuck Everything, We're Doing Six Cores by iamdrscience · · Score: 5, Funny

    You think it's crazy? It is crazy. But I don't give a shit. From now on, we're the ones who have the edge in the multi-core game. What part of this don't you understand? If two cores is good, and four cores is better, obviously six cores would make us the best fucking processor that ever existed. Comprende? We didn't claw our way to the top of the CPU game by clinging to the two-core industry standard. We got here by taking chances. Well, six cores is the biggest chance of all.

    Here's the report from Engineering. Someone put it in the bathroom: I want to wipe my ass with it. They don't tell me what to inventI tell them. And I'm telling them to stick two more cores in there. I don't care how. Make the cores so thin they're invisible. I don't care if they have to cram the sixth blade in perpendicular to the other five, just do it!

  5. Finally by rodrigoandrade · · Score: 1, Funny

    I'll be finally able to run Crysis at a decent framerate.

  6. Yeah, but... by evil_aar0n · · Score: 1, Funny

    Yeah, but will it run a hackintosh?

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