Intel's 36 Month Plan (through 2008)

[TheBluePill]

Looking at Toms big article on the "grand roadmap" It seems that Single Core all but a niche item in the next 24 Months with 4 and 8 core processors at 45nm taking the lead.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/04/top_secret_intel_processor_plans_uncovered/index.html

I have already subscribed to the dual core doctorine and I know it is good, I can only imagine how 4 and 8 will work out on the mainstream.

And with the 45nm process we might even see cool 5-6ghz cores giving a CPU 40+ ghz effective speed... Very interesting indeed...

 

[Menelmarar]

2 cores at 5Ghz != 10Ghz effective speed....It doesn't work that way in any way you can compute it.

 

[Big Worm]

Doesn't work that way on paper or in person

I think of it more like a dual 5 ghz cpu is a stronger 5 ghz compared to a single 5 gig cpu.

 

[robberbaron]

At least in Cinebench 2003 it doubles your performance to have two cpus

 

[Pongi]

Could be able to run 4 - 8 instances of F@H on 4 - 8 way multicore CPU.

 

[drizzt81]

At least in Cinebench 2003 it doubles your performance to have two cpus

yes, there are some exceptions to the rule, but not everything is parallelizable (not a word, I am sure). For this reason the simple math doesn't work anymore.

 

[darkeen]

F@H needs to make their program multi core aware, better (less setup) than having many instances

 

[empoy]

and only release 600 pointer QMD cores

 

[xonik]

I can only imagine how 4 and 8 will work out on the mainstream.

The law of diminishing returns comes to mind...