Which theoretical processor would you rather have??

[hannibal]

Theoretical prosessor...
Well ofcource it would be brand new quantum computer that is supposed to be thousand times more powerful than anything we have now...
🙂

 

[mi1ez]

Can I have a quad at 250GHz? I think that'd be a lovely halfway!

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

soy chocolate? hmmm, they make everything in chocolate nowadays, maybe even a 1 Thz cpu......

 

[vijaymanglani]

I prefer 1 T Hz processor but I think this will consume more heat as compare to thousand 1MHz processor.

 

[lolitha]

Dreaming about what would be it like to OC a 1 Thz processor , hmm ... What would be the FSB ? Would I be able to get another 1GHz or 200 Mhz .. hehe

 

[KyleSTL]

Nah, I like waiting, it gives me time to make soy chocolate ( i think that's the reason for me gaining 1kg...)

You crazy veggie. :lol:

 

[Amiga500]

sorry, double post

 

[Amiga500]

Thats easy... you need to scale perfectly to even have a balance between choices there.


Pick the 1 THz CPU everytime....

then you get a 4 socket mobo and yer flying. 😀



A better question would have been a 1 THz CPU, or 1000 10 GHz CPUs...

 

[spud]

Exactly. It's the architecture that really matters. But in this situation we're assuming it's the same architecture, and in that case, I would say that the single core would be better.

And yeah though, people are too caught up with adding more cores and the gigahertz war. But really, I think it'd be fine to keep around the same speed processors as long as they get faster.

Been there done that Pentium 4 anyone?

Word, Playa.

 

[spuddyt]

AH! who are you 😛 you are clearly the reason for the dyt at the end of my name 😛

 

[Reynod]

I am just going to work on the HSF for you guys.

I started with a one ton block of copper and bolted a Helicopter to the top of it ... seems good for a start anyway.

I was going to start machining out the fins for the copper top tomorrow with an industrial chainsaw.

Can you give me the rough dimensions of the IHS for the core so I can start polishing the bottom.

I am going to need a few gallons of Artic Silver and a couple of brooms to coat the bottom evenly ...

I was thinking we need an industrial shed for a case and the power supply isn't going to be pretty ...

 

[daft]

just to go a little green, dual core. core 0 at 1Thz and core 1 at a regular 60Ghz

 

[Amiga500]

just to go a little green, dual core. core 0 at 1Thz and core 1 at a regular 60Ghz

Or dynamic clocking...


If your watching a movie (for instance) - the CPU core runs at 500 MHz or lower, with the GPU clocked right down as far as possible as well

 

[Amiga500]

I am just going to work on the HSF for you guys.

Why do you assume it uses current manufacturing techniques and materials?

 

[n16]

This question is completely irrelevant if we're talking about silicon processors. The processor manufacturers are not making a choice to push multi-core vs upping clockspeed. They are producing multi-core processors because there is not much more mileage left in heat / power / transistor density and switching speed. Sure, processors like power 6 are now running at twice what the top of the line from Intel and AMD are, but intel and amd need to look farther down the road and prepare for the day coming soon where the limits of photolithography are reached. Computers are just going to get wider from here on out with silicon technology. Developing multi-threaded applications is more difficult, but eventually the compilers and runtime environments will come to greatly assist in optimizing for the new paradigm, and hopefully soon production distributed operating systems will come around for the small server and desktop market and provide tremendous acceleration for our OS's. The day is coming where our CPU's will look like today's GPU's. Not far off that our gaming systems will possess thousands of cores between CPU's and GPU's.

 

[Reynod]

IBM spent more time ensuring the thermals are spread evenly across the die. Minimising hot spots.


I agree the current technology for single complex cores is just about at the limit.

Sure the leet overclockers can push 6 or 7 Gigahertz ... for at least 3 minutes ... before the whole thing smokes up.

The problem is programming multi-cores.

You know the old term "smoke and mirrors" ?

Maybe optics and optoelectronics is the way forward?

Orac ?

 

[ainarssems]

Couple of years ago I read that intel have made cpu with 128 cores and that they predict similar products for consumer market in 2011. Don't know about clock speed.

This is what I see in future: Firsly like it went from vertex and pixel shaders to uiniversal shaders in gpu it will move to universal processing units replacing cpu and gpu. It will be build on optoelectronics each unit topping up to 20GHz. You will have 512 or 1024 processing units and each unit will be able to run 1 or more processes. It will also have dynamic clocking ability for each unit individually or group of units and option to switch individual units or groups off when not needed

 

[Amiga500]

Maybe optics and optoelectronics is the way forward?

Graphene (graphite) transistors with optical pathways.

 

[TechnologyCoordinator]

I'd take the Terahertz processor, but only if it overclocks well.





(Please note, I'm joking about the OCing)

 

[TechnologyCoordinator]

VIDEO: Tom's get a Pentium 4 Prescott OCed to 1 Terahertz:


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