AMD's Six-Core Istanbul Opterons

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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Speaking for Intel, spokesperson Nigel Tufnel said

[Phizzle]

Intels next processor will go to Eleven!
When asked by the reporters, as to why Eleven was chosen as the target number of cores, Nigel said
It's six louder than AMD! I mean faster...