HP Announces Six Core Istanbul Workstation
HP has announced that starting today, customers purchasing the company’s xw9400 will now have the option to add AMD’s six core Istanbul processors, allowing for 12 cores in one system.
“HP understands the immense pressure its customers are under to deliver more return on investment in a shorter period of time,” said Jeff Wood, director of Worldwide Marketing for workstations at HP. “By providing the most extreme combination of technologies – up to 12 cores in one workstation – HP continues its commitment to bringing customers leading-edge technologies.”
Launched last month at Computex Taiwan, the six core Opterons are said to offer an increase in performance of up to 34 percent, while using a similar amount of power to AMD’s quad core Opterons. Packing an ATI FirePro V7750 GPU, HP’s press release states that the xw9400 has a starting price of $1,899. However, a quick visit to the HP website puts the entry-level version of the xw9400 at $2,599 with a quad core processor. Whether it’s down to human error or HP not updating the site yet, we don’t know but we’ll update as soon as we figure things out.
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Because our current quad core set ups can't handle what there is out there right now.As it is a lot of programs still don't support multithreading
Uhhh, they're not talking about using these machines to play the next gen vid-game. They're talking intense 3d/image processing/video work with professional software that allows as many cores to process as possible.
The point i was trying to get at is program optimization should be a little more focused on than squeezing more cores into a processor....that is handled by the people who make the programs though so meh.
PS:i kinda noticed the 3d objects on the screens in the pic
Aren't GPUs better at this sort of thing?
@rory_20_uk
nah. 99% of the programs haven't been made for GPU yet.
If you know what you are doing you can set up a 3d rendering program to make use of all the cores. So more on one chip is great for that.
This won't be much use for 90% of the games.
Flight sims that have 15 screens with a whole bunch of GPUs will love this I expect.