Intel to ship 15-core Ivytown chip

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Tripkebab

2013-12-09 11:23

Like a town full of cores. Will they make an IvyCity?

Yes but it will require an always on internet connection and allow far less cores than it should.

#4720345

AvengerUK

2013-12-09 13:43

Yes but it will require an always on internet connection and allow far less cores than it should.

I see what you did there :roll:

#4720365

RPGgamesplayer

2013-12-09 14:16

:eek2:

#4720411

VolkNasty

2013-12-09 15:29

Weird, last night I had a dream that I infiltrated Intel and took a new 18 core server processor. I dream bigger than Intel! I wonder what new tech I'll dream of tonight? Any requests...?

#4720468

schmidtbag

2013-12-09 16:43

Is Ivytown going to be hyperthreaded? Because if so, that's actually a pretty hefty CPU right there. It probably has some outrageous price too. Makes me wonder if it'd actually be cheaper with more performance to get 4 quad core i7 CPUs than it would be to get a single one of these Ivytowns, including the motherboard. Note that 4 quad core i7s could be faster due to the additional memory channels.

#4720469

PNeV

2013-12-09 16:46

Yes but it will require an always on internet connection and allow far less cores than it should.

IvyCity: Rush Hour and other expansion packs available soon!

#4720482

-Tj-

2013-12-09 17:07

Is Ivytown going to be hyperthreaded? Because if so, that's actually a pretty hefty CPU right there. It probably has some outrageous price too. Makes me wonder if it'd actually be cheaper with more performance to get 4 quad core i7 CPUs than it would be to get a single one of these Ivytowns, including the motherboard. Note that 4 quad core i7s could be faster due to the additional memory channels.

I think it will, those 12 cores already are (24threads). But its funny it would be slower then Haswell clock vs clock in single threaded games/apps, Unless that big 30mb? L3 cache saves it 😀

#4720495

schmidtbag

2013-12-09 17:23

I think it will, those 12 cores already are (24threads). This mofo 30threads, but its still funny it could be slower then lets say a Haswell clock vs clock in single threaded games/apps 😀

The performance difference would be negligible - Haswell (IIRC) wasn't much of a performance gain. One of the selling points of the Xeon series is proven reliability, which is probably why they based it off Ivy Bridge. I'm sure you're well aware of this but it would be asinine to use a CPU like this for gaming or single-threaded tasks. On the other hand, in today's world, CPUs make relatively poor parallel processors. I feel like Intel this CPU is catering to people who don't like to move on to GPGPUs and/or lazy developers for server workloads. The stupid thing is such people also wouldn't be able to take advantage of all the instruction sets this CPU comes with. I'd say the only GOOD use for this CPU would be virtualization.

#4720584

LesserHellspawn

2013-12-09 19:33

Or serious multithreading. Those E7 CPUs are even meant for 4-way SMP. As gamers we will benefit from gameservers running on single machines, that required an entire serverfarm a few years ago. On the desktop side I'd rather have them raise to clocks past 4 GHz as default, rather that bring more cores.

#4720596

schmidtbag

2013-12-09 19:44

Or serious multithreading. Those E7 CPUs are even meant for 4-way SMP. As gamers we will benefit from gameservers running on single machines, that required an entire serverfarm a few years ago. On the desktop side I'd rather have them raise to clocks past 4 GHz as default, rather that bring more cores.

If you're into serious multithreading, GPGPU is the way to go. As of today, CPUs are really only good at crunching difficult equations and not ideal for massively parallel tasks. I agree that I'd rather see higher frequencies than more cores. What I'd be really interested in is a system that boots off and runs entirely from a GPU core, preferably nvidia since they can handle more complex equations (AMD just simply handles more questions). Obviously this isn't ever going to fly in the Windows world, but as a linux user, this is very doable.

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