a friend of mine told me that the amd tri cores were quads with one core disbaled?
On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Greg Lindahl <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 06:10:43PM +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote: > > > someone brought this up in another post and instead of hyjacking that > post i > > started a new one. what are the advantages of having processors that defy > > the normal development and progressions of cores. > > > > 2 4 8 etc like intel follows but amd seems to have done 2 3 4 6 ? > > Intel has done 6 core processors in the recent past, and there are > currently 3 memory controllers on Nehalem cpus. > > The point of a 6 core processor is that's all that fits, plus there isn't > enough memory bandwidth to support 8 cores with many workloads. > > The point of 3 core processors was selling at a lower price point, and > being able to sell defective chips as good. > > -- greg > > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > -- Jonathan Aquilina
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