Octo core - when? for intel and AMD i mean

[bradeh]

I know its hard to speculate, but what will Neleham do for us gamers? Big boost in FPS?

 

[Sylver123]

I know its hard to speculate, but what will Neleham do for us gamers? Big boost in FPS?

A faster CPU won't give much boost in games, as they are more graphics card dependent nowerdays, but in everything else like decoding, etc, we should see some performance gain.

Question, I take it those people that will be gowing for the same cpu socket as Bloomfield is on, shouldn`t have anything to worry about concerning that socket getting ditched some time after release? mean this socket will be staying on the market for a long time? the reason why I ask is because as far as I know, there will be 3 different sockets getting released by intel for Neleham, and people here seem to think that later on intel mite discard one of them, and therefore we`will have like we have now, one for desktop cpus and one for server cpus.

 

[drak3]

by 2010 the cpu will become the new transistor with cores multiplying so fast!

 

[tomos]

A faster CPU won't give much boost in games, as they are more graphics card dependent nowerdays, but in everything else like decoding, etc, we should see some performance gain.

encoding will be the one for me, as well as (assuming enough ram is available) being able to multitask more easily. e.g having megui encode something in the background, download, repair via par files, extract rar files, watch a movie/tv show or play a game.

i cant do that at the mo with a dual core as encoding makes the system slightly sluggish (not a RAM issue), unless i lower the process priority

what i would like to see, is not just the whole 'set affinity' option for 8 cores (which i expect), but to be able to set the priority for cores also. e.g use cores 1-5 exclusively for encoding (process = higher) , but for 6-8, change it to low so it wouldn't interfere with any gameplay or anything else i want to do.

that make sense?

 

[LizardKing]

oh god what's the point !

Well its definatly the future of CPU's, software makers are going have to play catch up

 

[gazfocus]

Apparently 6 cores in 2010...? No idea

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/di...ore_Microprocessors_for_Desktops_in_2010.html

According to Intel's new announcement, we will be seeing 6 core server CPU's in 4Q of this year which means consumer models should be released Q1 or Q2 2009.

 

[tomos]

in that case, cheap 2nd hand quad core (775) for me at some point to tide me over till 2010 i guess

 

[J0hnb0y]

i only make the point of asking what the point really is (whew..!) because i only use my pc to browse the web, play games and watch films...all of which are quite happy on 2 cores. i suspect a lot of people see advantages in having 4 cores, and may even see further advantages in having 8 cores...but the vast majority of pc users dont utilise 2 cores fully never mind 4 or even 8...

anyways, sorry to go OT, just think it's a bit ridiculous

 

[tomos]

only until software makers realise that multi-core isnt a fad and start writing software that works properly across several cores.

open source software seems to be doing this anyway

 

[hterag]

I could be wrong, but weren't Intel planning to release the octo-core Nehalems the same way as they released the quad core Core 2s initially? By sticking two Nehalem quad cores in the same socket and passing it off as an octo-core?

This might not work though, with the memory controller in the CPU, it wouldn't be able to share one on the northbridge the way Conroe does, so maybe it'll take a lot more work to get an octo-core working with Nehalem architecture...

 

[platinum87]

it's ok having that many cores, but there is no software that can use that many, talk about core wars again

mabye not standard software or games, but server stuff and insane chess programs / scientific simulation software etc.

 

[Robdav]

8 cores would rock especially with esx server or the like... damn shame it's not here now, might have not had to build 48 duel quad core blade servers... lol

 

[xirokx]

octo cores and 32 cores...wtf...whatever next...

why would an average family need quad core let alone octo cores..

 

[Azza]

octo cores and 32 cores...wtf...whatever next...

why would an average family need quad core let alone octo cores..

The octo core is a server based CPU.

 

[Lightnix]

octo cores and 32 cores...wtf...whatever next...

why would an average family need quad core let alone octo cores..

They don't. The average family has a 5 year old Celeron system with Norton antivirus installed on it. >>

 

[Draeconis]

Nehalem is 2-8 cores with Hyper-threading, so that's 4-16 threads. It'll look like up to 16 processors in Windows, in other words. I very much doubt the 8-core (16 thread) version will be released as a Desktop chip, only as a Server one, and even if it was, what would people actually be able to do with 16 threads? Mainstream applications have only just started to consider supporting 4 cores, with some games and programs loosely achieving this, but predominately the market is still stuck at Dual-Core level.

 

[ryder]

What year do Intel plan to release the Icosidodecahedron core?

 

[kchakkar]

oh god what's the point !

Graphics rendering for games. Could mean the end of the gpu.

 

[gurusan]

Could mean the end of the gpu.

not likely at all. GPUs are very, very good at what they do and won't be replaced for a very long time (most likely never actually otherwise nvidia/ati would be gone )

 

[jambus]

if the server ones are due later on this year, then hopefully 1st or 2nd Q next year for consumer ones.

a better question might be, when will 8-core cpu's from either company be affordable?
will AMD release 'straight' 8 core chips or will they all have one GPU core?

there is so much info out there that's contradictory, it would be nice to consolidate the info.

A better question might be, when will programmes be released that even use eight cores. We're still waiting to see really mainstream use of four :S