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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. Just a little FYI for you guys... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I just crushed up a d20 and smoked it. I'll post in a little bit about where that takes me.

    1. Re:Just a little FYI for you guys... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      Methinks you have misinterpreted the "I roll 20s" t-shirt.

  2. Fun fact: Istanbul was Constantinople by BadAnalogyGuy · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    The Eastern Roman Empire based in Constantinople lasted as long as the Egyptian empire, but its citizens never felt the same feeling of continuity and stability that the ancient Egyptians felt.

    Istanbul is a pretty clever name for a chipmaker who, like the legendary phoenix, dies and then returns from the ashes.

  3. NoKtUrNaL005 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    this crap is fucking crazy how can they do this

  4. dont bullshit by unity100 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    egyptian civilization started well around 4000 BC and lasted until 400 BC. thats around 3600 years.

    eastern roman empire is from ad 250 ish to ad 1453.

    EVEN if you add entire roman empire history unto that, which makes from 500 BC to 1453 AD, it still makes 2000 years. doesnt come anywhere near egypt.

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