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Geek Culture / 80 Core Intel Processor Circa 2012?

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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2011 04:42
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Check it out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97uSsjjoSNM&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Perhaps more realistic gaming when these things come out!

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Posted: 2nd Mar 2011 05:03
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Would be cool if it WOULD come out. Been 4 years since that announcement.

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Posted: 2nd Mar 2011 05:21
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i like the comment '80 cores!!?? I can play mario brothers while surfing the web!

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Posted: 2nd Mar 2011 17:20
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The most likely reason why this hasn't been released publicly yet is because companies have to step-up technology little by little in order to maximize profit.

Think about it, an 80 core processor, where do you go from there and what would a consumer do with 80 cores?
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Posted: 2nd Mar 2011 18:13
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Think of the heat generation, you'd need a huge fan for that thing!

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Benjamin
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As of yet there's no point since there are few major applications that make use of more than 2 cores, let alone require such power. It's nice to have additional cores to help multitasking, but at the moment there's no use for as many as 80.



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Posted: 2nd Mar 2011 20:43 Edited at: 2nd Mar 2011 20:44
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having 80 cores isn't a matter of how software uses them, its about creating cooler, more efficient processing

if they made, lets say a 64-core processor with as much power as the 980X, it would likely be much more power efficient.

PS, you reckon they sold a few?

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I'm guessing things like this won't be useful or even available until we have programming languages (or libraries) that totally abstract away the concept of threads / concurrency.

Otherwise it's just too insane to expect hand coding of something that could potentially be spread over 80 cores (or rather, it's insane to expect anyone to make decent/efficient use of all 80 cores if manually threading etc.)

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Posted: 3rd Mar 2011 02:48
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All of the above are good points!

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Posted: 3rd Mar 2011 14:34
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Don't GPU's already have +300 cores? What's different about CPU's and GPU's?

Green Gandalf makes an excellent point : profit. Every 18 months or so they can release a new version, and slowly move up to this 80 core processor. By the time we get there, we'll probably be swarming about the new 5000-core processor @ 1 THz!

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Posted: 3rd Mar 2011 14:47 Edited at: 3rd Mar 2011 15:05
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Quote: "What's different about CPU's and GPU's?"


The type of problems they're designed to solve, although in the recent years they're slowly evolving into each other.


Hmm, I wonder what's coming in 2011?
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Quote: "Green Gandalf makes an excellent point"


Except that he hasn't posted in this thread. But yes, I have made the same mistake before.

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Quote: "Except that he hasn't posted in this thread"


Yeah, you're thinking of That Guy John. He and Green Gandalf share an avatar. It's most confusing.


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Dark Java Dude 64
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Posted: 3rd Mar 2011 23:57
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300 cores? I didnt know that

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The GTX 580 has 512 Cores.

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See: Nvidia Tesla computers

I plan on getting one of these when my coding is up to snuff. Enough to make use of all these cores. (also, $$).

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I think the only thing I see for an 80 core CPU. Is for a server, 80 O\S(s) tide to 1 PC for a cyber cafe. At least that's the only thing I could think of...

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Posted: 4th Mar 2011 10:20
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There won't be an 80 core processor, because we are all going to die in 2012.

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Posted: 4th Mar 2011 17:25
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If you believed that, you wouldnt be wasting this precious time posting on the forums. So, anyone that posts that or takes the time to say it is lying.

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Ahhh i dont want to get religious but my beliefs tell me that we will NOT dye in 2012. But yes, if you are so worried, dont waste your time here

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Posted: 4th Mar 2011 23:20
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Quote: "Yeah, you're thinking of That Guy John. He and Green Gandalf share an avatar. It's most confusing. "


Ha, and I am not changing it either. Fraggle Rock was an awesome show when I was growing up.

Anyhow, yeah. Companies register, hold patents then release them on a timeline all the time. The products, not the patents of course.
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Heat should not be a problem, there may be more cores for heat to be transferred through, but you don’t get something from nothing, the chip apparently runs at 62 watts, that’s less than my Phenom x4 955 which runs at 110 watts. Worst case, the chip makes about the sane heat as my Phenom. Presuming a 100% efficiency rate of energy to heat transformation (which is impossible) we can work out:

C(water) = 4200j/kg
E(processor created heat) = 62w
4200j/62w=67.7s

So from that simple science we can say it would take 1 minute 7 seconds for this processor on full load to heat up a kilogram of water by 1 degree. Any decent cooler should be able to take care of that


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Posted: 5th Mar 2011 11:52
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Quote: "If you believed that, you wouldnt be wasting this precious time posting on the forums. So, anyone that posts that or takes the time to say it is lying."


Quote: "Ahhh i dont want to get religious but my beliefs tell me that we will NOT dye in 2012. But yes, if you are so worried, dont waste your time here"


I suppose my sarcasm didn't quite reach you

Quote: "Yeah, you're thinking of That Guy John. He and Green Gandalf share an avatar. It's most confusing."


Ah yeah... Thanks for pointing that out, and sorry That Guy John

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Posted: 6th Mar 2011 05:26
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Quote: "I suppose my sarcasm didn't quite reach you"
I guess not, sorry 'bout that

But yes, i dont think the 80 core would make too much heat...

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Posted: 9th Mar 2011 00:10
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Now thats what ya call a fast computer

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i dont think we will see this kind of CPU any time soon , since something like this would be counter profit. prices for the current top of the line $1000 CPUs will plummet and intel would loose money. I think what they will do is gradually release CPUs with more cores milking as much money out of them as possible. Kindof like the QX9650 cost $1000 for about 4 years intill the new gen i7 line came up with an equivalent cpu

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