Next-Gen Intel Chip Brings Big Gains For Floating-Point Apps

Posted by timothy on Monday March 18, 2013 @08:50AM from the code-slower dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Tom's Hardware has published a lengthy article and a set of benchmarks on the new "Haswell" CPUs from Intel. It's just a performance preview, but it isn't just more of the same. While it's got the expected 10-15% faster for the same clock speed for integer applications, floating point applications are almost twice as a fast which might be important for digital imaging applications and scientific computing." The serious performance increase has a few caveats: you have to use either AVX2 or FMA3, and then only in code that takes advantage of vectorization. Floating point operations using AVX or plain old SSE3 see more modest increases in performance (in line with integer performance increases).

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Re:Hope it's going in the new Mac Pro by Anonymous Coward · 2013-03-18 09:28 · Score: -1, Troll

He buys the special edition that comes with a dildo molded after Steve Jobs' cock that you mount into your seat. That way whenever he sits at his desk he can have Steve's cock fucking his ass like a good little iTard.