Quad Core Battle, Intel Yorkfield vs AMD Altair

Joe writes "Yorkfield Extreme Edition based on the 45nm Penry core architecture will meet heads-on with AMD Altair based on the 65nm K8L core in Q3 2007 as reported by VR-Zone. Due to its advanced 45nm process technology, Yorkfield XE is able to pack a total of 12MB L2 cache (2 x 6MB L2) and still achieving a much smaller die size and higher clock speed of 3.43-3.73Ghz. Yorkfield will feature Penryn New Instructions (PNI) or more officially known as SSE4 with 50 more new instructions. Yorkfield XE will pair up nicely with the Bearlake-X chipset supporting DDR3 1333, PCI Express 2.0 and ICH9x coming in the Q3 '07 timeframe as well."

I for one...

[Demanche]

I for one... Will... wait for those 80 core CPU's intel said they will have in a 'few' years. I'll refuse to upgrade till I get one! :D

Altair?

[gEvil (beta)]

Ooooh. Blinkenlights on a processor!

Competition rocks

[mattnuzum]

I've said it before, I'll say it again: This is exactly why competition rocks. Soon, we'll say Moore was no prophet, he was a pessimist!

Ah Numbers...

[glowingsnowball]

Processer speed as well as cores are just numbers to me. The only thing high processer speed means to me is that I am able to write unefficient code and get away with it. For(int i = 0; i9000;i++){For(int j = 0; j9000;j++){For(int l = 0; l9000;l++){System.out.println("More Cores")}}}

Re:One sided

[LarsWestergren]

Ok, so we have all this neat info about the Intel chip; what about the AMD processor (it gets a whole sentence and a half)? If this is supposed to be a "battle", it seems that most of the comparison has already been done in favor of Intel before the event even takes place, if this article is any reference. :P

Ooh, but dont' count out AMD yet! According to the nifty diagram from TFA, the Windsor has a "HT1.0", and the Altair a "HT3.0", and I can't see anything like that for the Intel processors. I don't know what a HT1.0 is, but I'm TERRIBLY excited about it, let me tell you.

More bullet points or higher numbers in a press release indicates a superior system much more clearly than any real life performance tests.

Re: No more instructions!!

[dp_wiz]

That 80-cored chips definitely would require a desperate bureaucracy to operate.

Re:Ah Numbers...

[bobtheinsanecow]

// May as well use all the cores...
int i,j,l;
fork();
fork();
for(i = 0; i<9000;i++)
  for(j = 0; j<9000;j++)
    for(l = 0; l<9000;l++)
      printf("More Cores");