Rumor: Xeon E7-v3 CPUs To Carry Up To 18 Cores

[mapesdhs]

... Just can judge a processor by clock speed

Wow... didn't expect you to reach new heights of astonishing wrongness in my brief absence.

Proof by negation: I can provide and & have personally observed numerous examples where clock
speed isn't remotely any useful metric of performance. This goes all the way back to old mbds
like the 440BX, when Intel started using crossbar designs for the first time; I tested a PIII/600
on such a board, it was faster than a PIII/1GHz on an older board. Clock speeds mean squat
unless everything else is the same, and even then there are factors which can impose
diminishing returns, which is why the ever higher clocked P4 was still so bad even when
approaching 4GHz. The same issues underline why Nehalem was such a jump forward, just
as AMD found when switching to onchip memory controllers.

Assuming you still believe what you've posted despite mountains of data/proof to the
contrary, I can only conclude you're trolling.

Ian.

 

[RedJaron]

This goes all the way back to old mbds like the 440BX, when Intel started using crossbar designs for the first time; I tested a PIII/600 on such a board, it was faster than a PIII/1GHz on an older board.

Mmmm, the 440BX. That was a legendary chipset in my book. Still have my old PIII machine ( Asus P2B board since I couldn't find an Abit board at the time, ) for whenever I get the old Win98 gaming bug.