http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=8400We already know that Intel has a working 80-core 'tiled' processor that can provide a sustained Teraflop of performance from a design that, in its latest incarnation, chews through just 45W. Now, to put that into some kind of context, the Teraflop compute barrier was broken in 1996 by a supercomputer housing 10,000 Pentium Pro CPUs.
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80 Cores!
No doubt that'll be another chipset and socket type then lol...
Well they aren't even x86 cores so I wouldn't get too excited just yet.Originally Posted by [GSV]Trig
The real exciting part of the Polaris chip is the interconnect system between the cores, and the provisions for memory stacking on the CPU package itself.
Also interesting to hear them say 1 teraflop requires just 45w now, and looking at the display 199w for 2 teraflop.
Previous demonstrations such as the one presented in the ISSCC '07 technical paper needed 98w to deliver 1 teraflop, and 181w was consumed to reach 1.28 teraflops at 4GHz.
I really do need to work on my sarcasm dont i
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