Interesting...12 Cortex A9 Cores benchmarked against Intel Atom, Ivy Bridge & AMD Fusion....

[Spit]

Interesting results:

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=phoronix_effimass_cluster&num=1

Taking the cost out of the equation it destroys the Atom but gets hammered by Ivy Bridge although not as much as I thought.

Going to be interesting when the A15 cores are released and benchmarked. Can certainly see a future for ARM in mainstream computing when you get a few of these cores in parallel.

 

[jeff6475]

Interesting

 

[Gav_881]

nice to see my the 3770k winning out, but it does pose the question why dont we have multi chip motherbords so those with lots of pennies can really kick the arse out of a PC build.

Guess a lack of microsoft support may be an issue

 

[Bacon?]

You can get multi chip motherboards but they are ridiculously expensive. I guess it down to the coding required to run them both at the same time?

 

[Gav_881]

You can get multi chip motherboards but they are ridiculously expensive. I guess it down to the coding required to run them both at the same time?

I've only ever seen them on servers, i guess they would make it harder for intel to sell the next gen of its chips in you can just drop in a second chip.

Could be a way for AMD to compete though

 

[kitch9]

I've only ever seen them on servers, i guess they would make it harder for intel to sell the next gen of its chips in you can just drop in a second chip.

Could be a way for AMD to compete though

It tends to introduce very high latencies so its avoided in the consumer space as the general workload is very different to servers.