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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. i'm pretty sure it'll be able to run crysis, but.. by underqualified · · Score: -1, Redundant

    can it run crysis 2?

  2. Re:Fuck Everything, We're Doing Six Cores by RazzleDazzle · · Score: -1, Redundant

    Sounds exactly like Gillette saying "Fuck Everything, We're Doing Five Blades"

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  3. Speaking for Intel, spokesperson Nigel Tufnel said by Phizzle · · Score: 1, Redundant

    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...

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