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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No. by Timothy+Brownawell · 2009-06-02 00:54 · Score: 4, Insightful

Harnessing muli-cpu machines with these installed is going to be.... Interesting.
No more interesting than existing many-core machines.
Seriously, having a couple dozen or more cores is nothing new.