Intel Kensfield quad-core CPUs - another broadside against AMD

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Scalability indeed

Considering that desktop applications are almost exclusively dominated by a single process at any given time, I have rather severe reservations over the benefit of even dual CPUs.

Please note that this is from someone who has spent a good bit of the last ten years with dual-CPU boxes doing compute-intensive applications [1]. Even then, the benefit is marginal.

Servers are another matter, of course. However, with servers (and especially servers that handle lots of tasks) the performance bottleneck tends to shift to memory response. In cases like that, the limits Intel has on both quantity and latency of DRAM put it at an architectural disadvantage. They seem to have a plan in the roadmap for 2008 and beyond, but that's not going to do them much good this year.

[1] Try running Monte Carlo simulations in the background on a single-CPU box and see what it does to your HMI responses.

Posted by: Yagotta B. Kidding   Posted on: 06/21/06 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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