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Intel Demos 48-Core Microprocessor (PICS)

Cyber-Mav said:
bit shocking to believe that im the only one wondering about how this thing will handle single threaded performance. i seriously doubt it will be even as good as a core2duo's single core.
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It's built to be a massively parallel processor, who cares about single core performance?
 
Just think, if your main CPU was a 48core beast, capable of performing in games as well as say an Nvidia 7800GT, but it was hardware comparible with Larrabee as well, then you could slot in a 48 core larrabee card, and double your gaming performance (more or less).
 
Definitely not a chip for entertainment then.

Reminds me of that Atom based supercomputer, idea for that is up to 10,000 Atoms in a single rack.
 
Corasik said:
Just think, if your main CPU was a 48core beast, capable of performing in games as well as say an Nvidia 7800GT, but it was hardware comparible with Larrabee as well, then you could slot in a 48 core larrabee card, and double your gaming performance (more or less).
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Twice as fast as a 7800GT... wow 4850 speed for 10 times the price :p
 
Owenb said:
Twice as fast as a 7800GT... wow 4850 speed for 10 times the price :p
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Well we dont know the price, and what if I had said a 1000 core larrabee :P. Point I was making was you could start off with a system with just a CPU and no GPU at all, and then upgrade to get more graphics processing with a plugin card. But the plugin card wouldnt need any memory, it would need any connections as the monitor/s would still be plugged into the motherboards output, and the CPU would still be assisting. No special drivers, just plug in and you got a bunch more cores.
 
After a while you stop seeing real performance gains by splitting a task up into multiple threads right? Despite the fact I can't imagine anyone programming a game to run with anywhere near that many cores with current understanding...?
 
as insane as that is... isnt this more cores more cores approach, abit... well, old hat??


Its akin to nasa replacing the shuttle with what is basically an updated Saturn-V rocket. *sighs*


I want thinking outside the box,

give me spintronics, give me quantum computing, but don't give me a vision of "more of the same for the next decade" and expect me to go all googly eyed. :(
 
thats pretty cool....of course seeing the heatsink and fan being used and the power usages they proberbly run at a very low clockspeed. but of course this is just to prove it can be done. things will improve and it will give the software producers a chance to start to take advantage of lots of cores.

the future is looking good.
 
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