Thursday, April 26th 2007
8-Core Intel Xeon 'V8" Sneak Peek
In respond to AMD's Quad FX, Intel announced in January at this year's Consumer Electronics Show, new platform dubbed "V8". The guys at HotHardware.com have managed to take a good look at it and run some benchmarks. The "V8" consists of Intel workstation-class S5000XVN dual-socket motherboard, coupled to a pair of Xeon X5365 processors, 4GB of Samsung DDR2-667 FBDIMMs, and a GeForce 8800 GTX. The motherboard is based on Intel's 5000X chipset and the processors are clocked at 3.0GHz a piece(1333MHz FSB). Click here, to see some preliminary testing on this rig.
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HotHardware
24 Comments on 8-Core Intel Xeon 'V8" Sneak Peek
Oh and as for designed for four... well no ones got an octa yet to test that, so we'll wait and see :D
EDIT: Although multi tasking would improve greatly. Say playing SupCom while running a SupCom server.
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Unless you're thinking of a multiple threaded chip (such as SPARC). But the programming works the same way, anyway.
So they cap it down to a certain level.
While say, sup com, COULD benefit from 8 cores, its probably only a tiny amount over 4, so they may have capped it there.
Its kinda hard to learn on this, as most 'dual core' games are simply a single core engine with a hacked-on method for using another core (the same way CoH uses a second core, but its only for physics - which are purely graphical, and dont affect gameplay at all)
Dont get me wrong, id love a dual quad core platform for my own uses, but for the kinda money this platform will cost, it should at least match the feature set of the $150 motherboards that we use with our core 2s...
AMDs quadfx aint perfect, but its got what people want (aside from the performance advantage over intel) :rolleyes: