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8-Core Intel Nehalem-EX To Launch This Month

Posted by Soulskill on from the double-the-cores-for-only-twice-the-price dept.

MojoKid writes "What could you do with 8 physical cores of CPU processing power? Intel's upcoming 8-core Nehalem-EX is launching later this month, according to Intel Xeon Platform Director Shannon Poulin. The announcement puts to rest rumors that the 8-core part might be delayed, and makes good on a promise Intel made last year when the chip maker said it would release the chip in the first half of 2010. To quickly recap, Nehalem-EX boasts an extensive feature-set, including up to 8 cores per processor, up to 16 threads per processor with Intel Hyper-threading, scalability up to eight sockets via Intel's serial Quick Path Interconnect and more with third-party node controllers, and 24MB of shared cache."

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  1. Re:Balance by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does it have the memory I/O bandwidth to keep up with the CPUs? When will I be able to actually buy a mother board with 8 of these 8 core CPUs, and what kind of a frame rate would Crysis get on that rig?

    Crysis will get the same framerate as before, because FPS is not due to CPU, its due to GPU.

    Go ahead and spend $1000 on a CPU, and i'll spend $1000 on two $500 GPU's with an E8400 or I5. Then we'll see who gets the better framerate

  2. Re:Finally! by aldld · · Score: 0, Redundant

    But can it run Linux?