8-Core Dual Xeon "V8" Test Rig Performance

MojoKid writes "Back in January at this year's CES show, Intel was giving the press glimpses of a rig in their booth dubbed the V8. It was essentially a dual-socket workstation platform outfitted with a pair of quad-core Xeon processors for a total of eight cores — hence the "V8". The enterprise platform that this box was built around is based on Intel's 5000X chipset, aka Blackford, and it supports up to 32GB of FBDIMM serial memory. HotHardware has a component build-up of a more current Intel V8 machine here, with preliminary benchmarks, pictures and more details on this 8-core dual Xeon powerhouse."

Re:FB-DIMMS suck for gameing

[drrck]

This machine is obviously not designed for gaming. 8 Cores sound to me like a big number crunching machine for simulations and the like.

So it's a Mac Pro?

[ZachPruckowski]

Sounds a lot like a high-end Mac Pro [apple.com] (shipping for months) with a nicer graphics card. Dell Precision 690s are a bit pricier, but they do the same thing (admittedly, I envy the SAS built-in). I assume HP has a similar model, but I didn't check.

How is this news? Intel attached a marketing name to a product that has existed for months and is the logical extension of having dual-socket boards and quad-core chips. I mean, it's basically (2*2)*2 - dual-core processors (2) on MCM (*2) in a two-socket (*2) board. There's exactly no advancement going on here.

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[ArchieBunker]

Fubar already. Anyone have a coral cache link?

Re:FB-DIMMS suck for gameing

[Mockylock]

Well, who really takes a "wait for barcelona" quote from a guy who uses the word GamEing"? The idea that he compared it to a gaming machine shows exactly how much he really knows about server processors in general.

This will be a pretty decent step for servers, not just because of speed, but the drop in heat compared to it's predecessors with the same amount of running processors. I'm sure that AMD will have something to throw in soon, but it really doesn't matter considering quite a few companies are bias to what manufacturer they use. Most stick with a brand, regardless of price, when they know it is reliable. It's also not a surprise that this was released. I'm sure that a V16 isn't too far down the line within a year or two.

Re:So what're they gonna price 'em at?

[jellomizer]

I bet apple could give they systems away for free and you PC Nicks will still find a way to show that macs are more expensive then PCs

Re:FB-DIMMS suck for gameing

[GundamFan]

I don't dispute that... I'm sure now that ATi is owned by AMD we will see nVidia and Intel getting much friendlier than they have been.

Over all it is an exiting time to be a tech head... competition is great.

Re:I am sure it's a gas guzzler too

[linuxdoctor]

Someone said that cars would never catch on because they were too noisy and smelly. Someone said that television would never catch on because movies were so much better. Someone even said that nobody needs more than 640K in a personal computer. Just look where we are now.

All you need to do is give someone a fun today to play with and they'll find a way of doing something interesting, perhaps even useful, with it.

Re:Is it Itanic officially dead?

[LWATCDR]

Actually it doesn't seem to scale all that well at all. Take a look at the memory bandwidth scores.
Two sockets with Intel Quad core chips looks to be at the saturation point for the FSB. I have heard that the Xeon uses slower memory than the Duo but I think that 8 cores on the Intel FSB is about all your going to get for now.
The Itantium and Opteron both will scale to more CPUs than the current Xeon.