Quad core

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Intel's Core 2 Quadro Kentsfield: Four Cores on a Rampage

 

"More important is power consumption: Intel wants to stay within the 130-W power envelope with the quadruple Core 2 Quadro processor. The 130-W figure was almost achieved by the Pentium Extreme Edition 965 and the Core 2 Quadro processor does it again; but it packs a total of four CPU cores on the chip now.

 

The four cores are not located on a single piece of silicon, but the two Core 2 chips are placed next to each other inside the processor package. Consequently, the transistor count doubles to an impressive 582 million."

 

 

Q&A with AMD : AMD's Dr. Gaith Kadir

 

"Next, we spoke about upcoming AMD products and were informed that the K8L is very much on schedule. For those not familiar, the K8L is AMD’s upcoming quad core CPU that will consume no more power than their current dual core solutions at identical speeds."

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What about Quad Core?

 

"Without a doubt Apple will release a quad-core version of the Mac Pro, either by the end of this year or early next year, but are users who buy the Mac Pro today missing out? While we're still a couple of months away from being able to test a retail Clovertown CPU in the Mac Pro, we wanted to see if the current engineering samples of the chip would work."

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AMD Quad Core Discussion & Editorial

 

"AMD’s K8L is a native quad-core die design as shown in this representation. Referring to this as “native” is a strike at some of Intel’s previous dual-core designs and their upcoming “Kentsfield” quad-core processor that is simply two Core 2 Duo processors placed side by side on a single package. “Native” highlights the technology as new, not just two older technologies dropped onto a single piece of silicon."

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AMD to counter Intel QX6700 with three new Athlon 64 FX CPUs in mid-November

 

"Although the major specifications of the FX-70, FX-72 and FX-74 are similar to those of AMD's Athlon 64 FX-60, FX-62 and FX-64, the new Athlon 64 FX CPUs will utilize the Socket 1207 connector being used in AMD's server processors, instead of the Socket AM2 or the Socket 939, the sources noted."

 

Intel quad cores make a showing

 

"IF YOU NEEDED any more proof about Intel's quad cores coming out at 2.66GHz, you only need look at any of the systems they had on display before IDF opened."

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Bob? Are you Quad posting in this tread?

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IDF Fall 2006: From Core 2 Quadro to 80 Cores

 

"Games and multi-core processors were mentioned in almost every tech session that dealt with quad and multi-core CPUs. Game developmer Remedy showed impressively how games can benefit from multi-core processors by sharing workloads across multiple processing units."

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Surprisingly enough, Markus indicated that Alan Wake would pretty much not run on any single core processors, although it may be possible to run on single-core Pentium 4 processors with Hyper Threading enabled, with noticably reduced image quality/experience.

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Kentsfield quad-core performance previewed

 

"3DMark06's CPU test is also widely multithreaded, and the quad-core processor crunches through it with ease, as well. Since the results of that CPU test are a component of the overall 3DMark score, Kentsfield comes out ahead of the Core 2 Extreme X6800 in 3DMark06. However, have a look at the detailed results, and you'll see a bit different story."

 

 

Quad core Kentsfield benchmarked

 

"So, providing your software can leverage all four cores, there will of course be a nice performance boost to be seen with Kentsfield. It's looking good for video editors and content creators. We'll have to wait and see what this means for gamers."

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Intel's quad-core rings in a new era of enthusiast systems

 

"According to Valve, quad-core will be resulting in more performance and some new features for the user immediately and a lot more features down the road. The company mentioned that frame rates will improve to a certain degree. But at some point, better frame rates may not be the only satisfying feature anymore and we will begin to see new and substantially upgraded features that cannot be supported by today's single- and dual-core processors. Those features will include especially particle simulation, which comes very close to what gamers perceive as physics simulation today. Valve explained that a substantial part of particle simulation needs to be supported by the CPU: In fact, the game developer said that quad-cores are capable of running physics - without the real need of SLI physics, Crossfire physics or a discrete board that carries Ageia's physics processor."