Fastest CPU

[clarkey01]

I was just thinking which is the:


A) Highest Clocked CPU in Existence ?

B) Most Powerful CPU In Existence ?

Doesn?t have to be commercial either.

 

[bradams]

The highest overclockers are the celeron 300a and the 2.4a prescott


EDIT: I see now that you mean not best at overclocking but the highest speeds..


My local university just purchased a 5 million dollar computer for research... I'm sure that would O/C nicely

 

[Stormgiant]

a) Fastest single cpu i've seen is a 2.8A @ 5.xx Ghz. That is one hell of a fast cpu...

 

[clarkey01]

Most Powerful CPU In Existence ?

Itanium 2 ?

 

[bcoupland]

I'd say one of the IBM/Motorola dual core PowerPC processors (G5 family, but not in macs...yet) or maybe a Sun UltraSparc III+

 

[Dman877]

Has the Itanium surpassed the alpha yet? I was told by an engineer who dealt with both that the itanium wasn't projected to be as fast as an alpha until itanium 3...

 

[Zebo]

FX

 

[MegaWorks]

Originally posted by: Zebo
FX

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AMD Athlon XP T-Bred B DLT3C 1700+ @ 2.3GHZ (1.775v) 400FSB = 3200+
Abit NF7-S V.2 (nForce2-U400)
Corsair TwinX XMS 3200LL 512MB @ 2-3-2-6 (2.6v)
Sapphire Radeon 9800 Platinum Edition 128MB (380/600)
Antec TrueBlue 480W
Thermalright SLK-947U with 92mm Vantec Tornado @2800RPM
Antec PlusView 1000AMG
Cambridge SoundWorks MegaWorks THX 550 5.1

 

[RussianSensation]

Originally posted by: clarkey01
I was just thinking which is the:


A) Highest Clocked CPU in Existence ?

B) Most Powerful CPU In Existence ?

Doesn?t have to be commercial either.

A) Are we including the use of Liquid Nitrogen? or something that IBM/Apple/Intel/AMD have; because Intel showcased a 10ghz cpu sometime ago.

B) Again, we dont really know how powerful the cpus are for those companies behind closed doors. Besides it is difficult to tell what the most powerful cpu is because each cpu excels at different things.

Maybe you should do some research into the topic online or read some current technology magazines if you interested about the topic because it seems your question doesnt' really deal with common commercial cpus. In fact, maybe you'd be much more interested in knowing what the fastest computer on the planet is (like a cluster of CPUs or a supercomputer).

You should download THIS video as it's pretty cool to watch.

 

[clarkey01]

"Maybe you should do some research into the topic online or read some current technology magazines if you interested about the topic because it seems your question doesnt' really deal with common commercial cpus. In fact, maybe you'd be much more interested in knowing what the fastest computer on the planet is (like a cluster of CPUs or a supercomputer)."


Its just a bit of fun so chill.

 

[Ethex]

AMD - K5 - PR75ABR



It was made for windows 95 yaknow

 

[DragonFire]

Originally posted by: clarkey01
"Maybe you should do some research into the topic online or read some current technology magazines if you interested about the topic because it seems your question doesnt' really deal with common commercial cpus. In fact, maybe you'd be much more interested in knowing what the fastest computer on the planet is (like a cluster of CPUs or a supercomputer)."


Its just a bit of fun so chill.

That would be the Earth Simulator:

* 5,120 (640 8-way nodes) 500 MHz NEC CPUs
* 8 GFLOPS per CPU (41 TFLOPS total)
* 2 GB (4 512 MB FPLRAM modules) per CPU (10 TB total)
* shared memory inside the node
* 640 × 640 crossbar switch between the nodes
* 16 GB/s inter-node bandwidth
* 20 kVA power consumption per node

 

[RussianSensation]

Originally posted by: clarkey01
"Maybe you should do some research into the topic online or read some current technology magazines if you interested about the topic because it seems your question doesnt' really deal with common commercial cpus. In fact, maybe you'd be much more interested in knowing what the fastest computer on the planet is (like a cluster of CPUs or a supercomputer)."


Its just a bit of fun so chill.

I wasnt sounding mean or rude or anything. This sentence was supposed to inspire you to research for yourself. Sorry if you took it the wrong way.

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: DragonFire

Originally posted by: clarkey01
"Maybe you should do some research into the topic online or read some current technology magazines if you interested about the topic because it seems your question doesnt' really deal with common commercial cpus. In fact, maybe you'd be much more interested in knowing what the fastest computer on the planet is (like a cluster of CPUs or a supercomputer)."


Its just a bit of fun so chill.

That would be the Earth Simulator:

* 5,120 (640 8-way nodes) 500 MHz NEC CPUs
* 8 GFLOPS per CPU (41 TFLOPS total)
* 2 GB (4 512 MB FPLRAM modules) per CPU (10 TB total)
* shared memory inside the node
* 640 × 640 crossbar switch between the nodes
* 16 GB/s inter-node bandwidth
* 20 kVA power consumption per node

Ya ya that's nice, but can it play doom?

Did'nt think so

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

most powerful CPU? probably Power 5.

eight way POWER5 MCM with 144MB of cache
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[jhu]

Originally posted by: Dman877
Has the Itanium surpassed the alpha yet? I was told by an engineer who dealt with both that the itanium wasn't projected to be as fast as an alpha until itanium 3...

itanium2 is faster than alpha only because alpha isn't being updated anymore.

as for most powerful cpu, well that depends on your definition of power. currently, for fpu it's power5, for integer it's opteron.

 

[ScrewFace]

The best overclocker wasn't the 300a Celeron but, rather, the 566Mhz Coppermine Celeron (.18m). I had one and I overclocked it to 876MHz running on a 103 MHz bus. Some people got them past 900MHz. I was only using a ThermalTake Golden Orb for cooling.

 

[Stormgiant]

I think it's just your opinion...

Most of the 300A would do 112fsb...

A quick search on overclockers.com database show's :

- 300A PPGA = 74 entrys with average 538Mhz = 79% average overclock
- 300A Slot1 = 148 entrys with average 536Mhz = 78% average overclock
- 566 = 774 entrys with average 884Mhz = 56% average overclok

The next golden one should be the Prescott 2.4A....

 

[DragonFire]

Originally posted by: Zebo

Originally posted by: DragonFire

Originally posted by: clarkey01
"Maybe you should do some research into the topic online or read some current technology magazines if you interested about the topic because it seems your question doesnt' really deal with common commercial cpus. In fact, maybe you'd be much more interested in knowing what the fastest computer on the planet is (like a cluster of CPUs or a supercomputer)."


Its just a bit of fun so chill.

That would be the Earth Simulator:

* 5,120 (640 8-way nodes) 500 MHz NEC CPUs
* 8 GFLOPS per CPU (41 TFLOPS total)
* 2 GB (4 512 MB FPLRAM modules) per CPU (10 TB total)
* shared memory inside the node
* 640 × 640 crossbar switch between the nodes
* 16 GB/s inter-node bandwidth
* 20 kVA power consumption per node

Ya ya that's nice, but can it play doom?

Did'nt think so

It has a total of 2,256,000Mhz and a total of 10TB of ram. The dam thing would use half the cpus for gfx rendering, the whole game would be loaded in ram. Im sure it could play it at 1600x1200 on ultra setting and do well over 100fps.

 

[clarkey01]

"It has a total of 2,256,000Mhz and a total of 10TB of ram"

So it can play doom III ?> lol