AMD's Dual-Core x75 Opterons

[Steve]

The release today of AMD's dual-core workstation and server parts is a significant landmark in the world of x86 computing for the enterprise and professional users. The ability to pack twice the processing power into the same space opens up new doors for clustering, research, data processing, data mining, webserving, content creation, digital media production, video editing, games development and much more. While the cost is high for the time being, economies of scale and a pervasive range of processors to choose from will only bring the price down, and significantly so.

http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews...lld19JRD0xMTI5

[Stoo]

That.. is.. a.. MONSTER!

[Rys]

There's so much I wish I had time to do with that article, that I just had to chop out for time reasons (and I still missed NDA expiry by half a day).

The major one is the feel a multi-processor system gives you while using a modern OS, and the benefits to be gained in single threaded apps that aren't apparent from the 'straight' benchmarking that I only had time for.

Anand has gotten it mostly right recently with his look at dual-core Intel and AMD, and the approach I'll use to show off what I mean will be somewhat similar.

There's also some peripheral work to be done with the graphics cards supplied, which I'll get to at a later date.

Sorry we had to miss a bunch of stuff out and just give you a basic CPU analysis. We'll get another dual-core box back in for the rest of the testing and commentary.

And yes, the Gravistar XR is a beast