AMD quad-core 4 sockets demo: twice as fast!

This morning AMD held a press briefing at the unassuming Clift hotel in San Francisco (cheaper than the "W" hotel where the company used to held such meetings... cost cuttings I guess) about its upcoming Barcelona processor. Despite rumours, AMD says that the quad core chip is still scheduled to ship this summer.


The demo part of the event was really noisy, and you'll experience that on the video. Sparking a remark from AMD's server and workstation division VP Randy Allen, on the feasibility of having such demos in the future, as servers get more and more powerful/noisy!

Anyway, the demo compared two AMD 4-sockets systems: one with the Barcelona quad core chip and the other with a shipping dual core processor. Both systems were equally configured with the processors at equal clock frequency and running the POV-Ray benchmark. Without surprise, the quad core system finished first, running almost twice as fast as the dual core one.

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[Nimise08]

Are you an idiot?

[vojkostar]

AMD is at least 10 tmes smaller than intel so it is not easy to fight chipzilla

[Tensorskills]

are that delta fans in the background? xD

[niels2029]

crap urself vedal... 790gx rocks have it for 2 yrs nw sonce first release... and still really fast

[Vedalkenwow]

1) MSI is CRAP!

2) the 790GX Chipset is CRAP!

3)Go for the DFI LP DK790FXB-M2RSH motherboard

4)Go for the New Phenom II X4 940 BE

5) I am NOT buying you anything.

6) Are you an idiot?

[2point8GHz]

My Wish List:

hey Can Someone Buy Me a AMD Gaming PC, here are the PC parts you can get me at newegg,com

1-MSI DKA790GX Platinum AM2+/AM2 AMD 790GX motherboard.

1-AMD Phenom Black Edition 2.6-GHz Quad Core Processor.

1-HIS ATI Radeon 4870 or 4870X2 video card.

4GB's of 240pin G.Skill DDR2 800 of RAM.

1-Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid

Computer Case.

1-PC Power&Cooling S75QB 750W ATX12V PS.

if you like to donate me one PC Part let me know. my email: rw_ilike@hotmail com

[GnosticDjinn]

JTMarlin8 is right. I render some pretty heavy shit, 24 million verts plus render effects. On 4 cores one frame would take an insulting amount of time. I use an 8 core right now, but I'm also buying a couple of 4 socket quad-core mobos to set up to work with this PC as my interface. That will literally open the door for blazing fast renders that *don't require much of anything to be written to disk except the final output.* I'll drop you a 24 mil count frame and let you render it.

[8309400]

if processor companies tha make desktops can tame their love for dumbness, we should then

be able to have energy efficient pcs that run blazing fast monster games without the power drain and consequent high cost of ownership for vide cards and uselessly over watting processors, Hopefully soon, we will be able to play games like crysis in panavision scripting, at under 15 watts, Maybe video card companies will have pico itx video cards

with the same performance at a fraction of the power drain?

[8309400]

beleive me im very coding aware and pretty soon when (one microsecond write speed) ssds become affordable, game companies will probably start wirting games in Ultra Panavision (2.76:1)but it wont matter because ati video cards wont need much map compression like 3Dc, when sorage drives are blazing fast compression isnt needed much.

[8309400]

ill tell you a little secret about coding games and java apps dude, a processor CANT FETCH data faster than the storage can give it and the speed at which storage gives a cpu data is measured by its random access reads and writes speed. A 4 ms random write/seek provides only 250 requests (fetches) per second, wich means your 3GHZ quad core isn't working faster than 250 HZ, most drives do 12ms read write, so a pc runs around 100HZ the cpus GHZ is overkill unless you have a ramsan300

[JTMarlin8]

Unless you compile large amounts of code or render lots of video or graphics, you simply won't understand.