By Nik SimpsonPosted Tuesday 21st July 2009 19:10 GMT
"Joining the 750s will be as-yet-unnumbered 3.2GHz, 3.33GHz and 3.46GHz i5s which contain only two cores, though HyperThreading technology - absent from the first i5 - will present eight cores to the host OS. All three will contain 4MB of L3 cache."
Unless Intel is doing 4 hyperthreads/core, I think that's going to be four cores (or threads) not eight.
By Lennart SorensenPosted Tuesday 21st July 2009 21:08 GMT
The Alpha was supposed to get 4 threads on a core when they designed the SMT system intel later took over (after getting hold of alpha from compaq in a settlement). It would be about time intel managed to fully implement it. If you look up the alpha 21464 you will find some info on the use of SMT they were planning.
Intel Core i7 I7-920 Quad Core Processor (2.66GHz, 4x256kB, 4.8GT/s QPI, LGA 1336 Socket B)
AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Quad Core Processor (3.4GHz, 6MB L3 Cache, 4x512KB L2 Cache, 2000 MHz Bus, Socket AM3)
Asus P7P55D Motherboard (Intel Socket H LGA1156, P55 Express, ATX, 16GB DDR3)
Intel Core i5 750 Qaud Core Processor (2.66GHz, 8MB L3 Cache, 2.5 GT/s Bus, Socket H LGA1156)
Asus M4A785TD-V EVO AMD 785G/SB710 Socket AM3 ATX Motherboard
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An 82W "Low Power" chip? #
By Sorry that handle is already taken. Posted Tuesday 21st July 2009 10:56 GMT
8 threads from 2 cores? #
By Nik Simpson Posted Tuesday 21st July 2009 19:10 GMT
COuld be 8 threads on 2 cores #
By Lennart Sorensen Posted Tuesday 21st July 2009 21:08 GMT
Re: 8 threads from 2 cores? #
By Sorry that handle is already taken. Posted Wednesday 22nd July 2009 00:17 GMT