Montecito Itanium 2

[plenkor]

Holy crap! Did anyone else notice the huge die used for the new Montecito core Itanium 2 processors? It makes my Athlon XP 2800+ look like a SMT capacitor.

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[Stimpy]

Not really that impressive. Performance wise.

To Quote from the article
"Santa Clara (CA) - Intel today said that a 4-way server system based on the upcoming Montecito dual-core processor outran a 4-way RISC-based system by about 60 percent in a benchmark test."

They do not state what RISC based system it was.
Given that the CPU is dual core and it was a 4 way system I would have thought that 60% performance improvement was a little on the low side..., especially givent the die size.
Would need to know about heat output as well

 

[Guest]

Im impressed by the transistor count tough! Whats the yield on these chips?? heh

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[AiloveHaibara]

yeah,it's super strong and expensive,
it's used for server and science compute,not related to us

 

[HansGruber]

yeah,<b>it's super strong</b> and expensive,
it's used for server and science compute,not related to us

What the hell that means ?
Are you trying to say that Itanium is a good performer ?

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It's the worst CPU ever made.

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[AiloveHaibara]

i agree
i said it strong just because it's used for science compute
as far as i know,itanium is not able to process x86 instructions,intel gives itanium IA-64 instructions for server service
o,in the market ,xeon and operton are easy to buy,at least i can find them in the market
now i'm interested in AMD Athlon64 FX,i want it!!

 

[HansGruber]

Montecito Itanium 2 <b>4 way <b>45 Gflops</b> in Linpack.

<A HREF="http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_8796_8800~96867,00.html" target="_new">ROFL !</A>

<font color=red>"We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."
- Albert Einstein</font color=red>

 

[plenkor]

I didn't mean to imply it was a good performer; I'm not a fan of the IA64 ISA at all.

But man that's a <b>huge</b> chunk of silicon. I wouldn't want to be the engineering guy that the execs talk to when they see the yield numbers.

 

[P4Man]

Yields wouldnt be that horrible I think, most of the die is cache which has built in redundancy.

If you look at the size of the cores, while not having any numbers, i doubt they are each much bigger than a P4 core.

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[Xeon]

Your lack of understanding of the Itainium series is sadening.

-Jeremy Dach

 

[AiloveHaibara]

upstairs,your user is Xeon??
cool name!itanium is not related to us ,don't mention it
i heard that intel has publiced a processor called P4 506,
it has 2.66ghz and 533 fsb and surport EM64T,maybe it will
be cheap.it's reported that P4 506 can easily oc to 4ghz!!
i wish intel to offer more hing perfermance/$ products
^_^

 

[Xeon]

Well I am completely lost as to what you are trying to say I can't see any sentence structure punctuation or correct grammar.

Now I am not mocking you or anything I simply can’t make sense of the point you are trying to make.

-Jeremy Dach

 

[Xeon]

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by Xeon on 07/11/05 02:51 PM.</EM></FONT></P>