Are you hard core?

[Rakehellion]

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.

 

[Ayah]

I think bulldozer modules should count as one core, personally.

 

[Maximilian]

Guy who voted more than 16... explain!

 

[Rakehellion]

I'm also curious as to how many people are running Xeons and Opterons at home.

 

[inf64]

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.

 

[R0H1T]

Guy who voted more than 16... explain!

As someone said ~ server(s) btw what does "hard core" actually mean ?

 

[Ayah]

I'm also curious as to how many people are running Xeons and Opterons at home.

Probably not so many here. Bunch of people with multisocket systems over at servethehome.

 

[Mixolydian]

I have an i7. I think that's 4-core?

 

[Sunny129]

there are a handful of crunchers/folders here and on [H]ardForum that have 4P builds (48 cores)...

 

[Durvelle27]

8 cores FTW

 

[SPBHM]

I think bulldozer modules should count as one core, personally.

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.

 

[Ayah]

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.

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.

 

[Arkadrel]

Old Phenom II x4 @4ghz.

Meh not really hard core but does well enough still.

 

[SPBHM]

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.

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)

 

[Ayah]

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)

What about multicore ARMs or VIAs?

 

[BrightCandle]

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.

 

[SPBHM]

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.

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),

 

[lagokc]

What about multicore ARMs or VIAs?

Does the exynos 5 octa count as 8 cores?

 

[crashtech]

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.

 

[Ayah]

Does the exynos 5 octa count as 8 cores?

It should!

 

[frozentundra123456]

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.

 

[Markfw]

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.

 

[ShintaiDK]

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.

 

[Ayah]

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.

Yeah, that would be an interesting poll. I'm at like 25 cores.

 

[Sunny129]

Yeah, that would be an interesting poll. I'm at like 25 cores.

if we counted all the CPU cores we have under one roof, then you have me beat by 1 core!

...but 6 is most i have in one machine