Intel Shows Off 8-Core, 128 Thread Nehalem-EX

[Marcus Yam]

This is big daddy Nehalem.

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[Guest]

is it running at 100% all the time of the video? on the threads side i don't see the utilization of the CPU, while it shows 100% on the left side.

 

[hop]

This is just sick.

 

[mlcloud]

Can it bruteforce =D?

 

[Guest]

I could understand if the 8 core has 2HT for each core; that would make 16 threads simultaneously; but 128threads is rather... unbelievable...
128threads are probably not for the average small business anymore

 

[eddieroolz]

But can it....

run CRYSIS? 😀

Someone had to say it.

 

[jacobdrj]

Fractals anyone?

 

[Guest]

Article seems a bit misleading -- isn't the new chip 8-core/16-thread, which in a 8-socket system would provide a 64-core/128-thread environment?

 

[dman3k]

One quantum processor can make 3000 times more calculations in a single second than this load of crap! Too bad, no one is making quantum computers more affordable.

 

[theafricandude]

The dude keeps on pausing but who cares when he brings us somin this HARDCORE

 

[Guest]

[citation][nom]dman3k[/nom]One quantum processor can make 3000 times more calculations in a single second than this load of crap! Too bad, no one is making quantum computers more affordable.[/citation]
They are not even in production yet as far as I am aware, still trying to get them to work so far!

 

[fausto]

[citation][nom]eddieroolz[/nom]But can it....run CRYSIS? Someone had to say it.[/citation]


LOL....yes someone had to say it! LOL

 

[lemonade4]

[citation][nom]theafricandude[/nom]The dude keeps on pausing but who cares when he brings us somin this HARDCORE[/citation]

These guys do their job exceptionally well and bring us news about 8 core, it doesn't matter if their communication skills are lacking. 😀

 

[BT]

[citation][nom]dman3k[/nom]One quantum processor can make 3000 times more calculations in a single second than this load of crap! Too bad, no one is making quantum computers more affordable.[/citation]

Fairly land. It will be long, long, long time, if ever, before quantum computers replace traditional server/desktop/HPC CPU's. Nehalem EX, is awesome, and affordable and attainable this year.

 

[ViPr]

what's so impressive about a computer drawing a grid?

 

[Herbert_HA]

Awesome. Just hope programmers learn how to harvest that much power.

 

[1raflo]

Holy.Shit. O_O

 

[buzznut]

Yeah no doubt, soon as we have a (software) use for all these cores and threads, we'll be in business!

 

[erictaneda2]

I think this is a sloppy headline. The actual processor is 8 cores, 16 threads (double the current generation), and with multiple sockets, can become 128 threads (8 socket x 8 cores x 2 hyperthreads per core).

 

[DjEaZy]

... who can afford it? Do GLOBAL economic crisis ring a bell??? So in a sense EDDIEROOLZ is right by asking:
"But can it....
run CRYSIS? 😀"

 

[skreenname]

[citation][nom]Ronald Demneri[/nom]is it running at 100% all the time of the video? on the threads side i don't see the utilization of the CPU, while it shows 100% on the left side.[/citation]

The usage line on the graphs would have been on the very top edge of the graphs the whole time.
So you'd have to be looking Really hard to see them.

 

[ossie]

Was about time to get in 8S NUMA space - AMD whipped their asses for ages in that segment.
“up to nine times the memory bandwidth of the previous-generation Intel Xeon 7400 platform.”
Even with independent FSBs, the previous platform was heavily BW limited to 4S and just 4Ch DDR2 FBDIMM RAM, with less than spectacular performance.
The jump to 24Ch (8CPUx3Ch) DDR3 RAM is finally eliminating that bottleneck.

Yummy boy, get it straight, even if you're running after catchy headlines. Or 8C/16Th, or 8S/128Th. Too much windblow$ dumb$ down...

 

[jsschneidereit]

I don't really know much about this. But I'm trying to figure out why mac pro uses Xeon, and why "workstations" use server processors. Because my dad is borrowing my baby that i built (computer of course) 'cause his died.. and he needs me to build him a new one. He is an architect and does 3-D rendering and all that jazz and I am aware of the fact that gaming computers don't run so hot doing that stuff... anyways where I was going with the mac, I'm wondering since the mac uses server cores should my build use this?

 

[IronRyan21]

Poor AMD! Is AMD's stock falling today?

 

[blackbyron]

How is the power consumption for 8 core, hope its efficient.
Is it 24 MB of L2 or L3 cache? That is a lot.