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Are you hard core?

How many CPU cores are you running in your main rig? (Round down)

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Rakehellion

Rakehellion

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Seems like there's a spurious demand all of a sudden for more cores when people are barely using the ones they have now. Also once you get to a certain number, you're better off running your software on the GPU.

So how hard core are you?

Poll.
 
4 PD cores (2 modules) @ 4.3Ghz. It offers peanuts power draw with great (burst) processing speed. More than I could use for what I need my PC. It costs ~77 dollars btw. All games and apps that I use work just great.
 
Ayah said:
I think bulldozer modules should count as one core, personally.
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not really, AMD calls a module 2 cores, and that's how they advertise their CPUs, and that's how people buy them,
also much of a core is duplicated and useless for single thread, a module to me looks like 2 cores sharing some resources, and the penalty to this sharing of resources is not that high.
 
SPBHM said:
not really, AMD calls a module 2 cores, and that's how they advertise their CPUs, and that's how people buy them,
also much of a core is duplicated and useless for single thread, a module to me looks like 2 cores sharing some resources, and the penalty to this sharing of resources is not that high.
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It's basically a bad comparison, since people with AMD dual cores are running antiquated systems and almost all people running 8 cores will be using AMD with the few exceptions who have deep wallets.
 
Ayah said:
It's basically a bad comparison, since people with AMD dual cores are running antiquated systems and almost all people running 8 cores will be using AMD with the few exceptions who have deep wallets.
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it's irrelevant, dual core can be some 1GHz AMD C-60 or the i3 3240 the difference is bigger than 8350 vs 8 core sandy bridge-e (like the 2687w)
 
I too am of the opinion the AMD 4 module chips should count as 4 core. Many reasons why but having an 8350 isn't exactly hardcore, its basically quad core levels of performance.
 
BrightCandle said:
I too am of the opinion the AMD 4 module chips should count as 4 core. Many reasons why but having an 8350 isn't exactly hardcore, its basically quad core levels of performance.
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it doesn't perform like a quad core, it's not sold as a quad core.

simple example

Cinebench 11.5 with one core
8350 = 1.1
Phenom II X4 980 = 1.1

from a quad core you would expect 4 times (4.4) as much but, using all the available cores we get

8350 = 6.85
X4 980 = 4.37

it's around 80% of a core with no shared resources (in terms of performance), for HT it's probably more like 15-20%, but HT is hardly another core, it adds what? 5% of die space? (I don't really know),
 
My old twin Harpertown LGA771 E5472 Xeons beat the E3-1230 i borrowed in many different benchmarks, even gaming ones, oddly enough (they suck at single thread, of course). I think I need an overclocked 3770K to produce a decisive victory. So I'm staying with the old HP xw8600 for now.
 
A very legitimate and interesting question, but I guarantee you this thread will turn ugly in a hurry. I answered the poll, I am using a quad core, but I am going to try to control myself and not post further.
 
What about how many total cores in your house ? I have 68 cores in desktops in my house. Actually if you count threads, I have 42 more than that.
 
12 cores, 20 threads in this household in 4 devices if only counting PC.

Will go down to 12 cores, 16 threads when Haswell arrives.
 
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