Intel Launches Eight Core, 16 Thread Nehalem-EX
Yes, it can play it.
In the enthusiast space for Intel fans, Gulftown may have just arrived with its hexacore power, but the world's largest chipmaker has a special new product for the server space.
Intel today launched the Xeon 7500 processor series, which offers up to eight cores packed in a single chip that's able to handle 16 threads at once. Systems can include up to 256 chips per server to combine for 2,048 cores and 4,098 threads.
"The Xeon 7500 brings mission critical capabilities to the mainstream by delivering the most significant leap in performance, scalability and reliability ever seen from Intel," said Kirk Skaugen, vice president of the Intel architecture group and general manager of Intel's data center group. "This combination will help users push to new levels of productivity, and accelerate the industry's migration away from proprietary architectures. We are democratizing high-end computing."
This Xeon series is the first of the family to possess Machine Check Architecture (MCA) Recovery, a feature that allows the silicon to work with the operating system and virtual machine manager to recover from otherwise fatal system errors, a mechanism until now found only in the company's Itanium processor family and RISC processors.
The new Nehalem-EX chips won't be cheap though; the hexacore X7542 model starts at $1,980 and the octacore X7560 is $3,692.
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I wonder how these are up against AMD's 12 Core Chips?
A just emptied my sack at the prospect of dropping two of the 7500s into EVGA's Classified SR-2
"Yes, it can play it."
lol
You guys may find this interesting. Not the octa core, but still...
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/c [...] 0-review/1
In the first video "Intel Xeon Processor 7500 Series" look carefully at the eyes of each representative from each of the different firms, notice how they move left to right...atleast we all know they can read a script =o)
In the first video look at the eyes of each representative of each firm...notice how they move left to right...atleast we know they can read a script =o)
I wonder how these are up against AMD's 12 Core Chips?
In short, I don't know but I would presume the Intel one's offer more IPC and that the AMD's would be a lot cheaper and friendlier in terms of system longevity. This Intel beast isn't exactly cheap and I wonder just how much power it sucks under full load.
What did shock me about AMD was their ability to build a 6-core Phenom on a 45nm die and make it drop-in compatible with pre-existing AM3/AM2+ boards. I think that when AMD does get round to producing smaller parts with even faster cores, the market share they already have in super-computing will grow even bigger.