intel dualcore

[sonoma1993]

Im just curious, what core does the intel dual core processors use? i know it core name is smithfield. But is it just 2 of the 500 series or 2 of 600 series processor stuck on there or what?

i know like the amd x2 are just 2 venice/san diego cores connected together.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Unfortunately, 2 500 series cpus.

 

[sonoma1993]

thanks, did they add 64 bit support to 500 series for dual core? i heard intel was planning on addin 64bit support to the 500 series sometime sooner or later.

 

[TuxDave]

Originally posted by: sonoma1993
thanks, did they add 64 bit support to 500 series for dual core? i heard intel was planning on addin 64bit support to the 500 series sometime sooner or later.

I believe all their current offerings in the desktop space from Pentiums to Celerons are 64-bit supported.

 

[sonoma1993]

thanks for the help

 

[MBrown]

Are you going to get one?

 

[sonoma1993]

no im not going to get a intel dualcore system, i got an amd system planning on going amd dualcore. I was just curious which cores the intel dualcore were using.

 

[Viditor]

Originally posted by: sonoma1993
Im just curious, what core does the intel dual core processors use? i know it core name is smithfield. But is it just 2 of the 500 series or 2 of 600 series processor stuck on there or what?

i know like the amd x2 are just 2 venice/san diego cores connected together.

1. There is a difference...the X2 cores have 2 Venice or San diego cores, that's true. But they are integrated as opposed to being just stuck together. What that entails is that they have an internal "router" and can talk to each other...the Smithfield must go all the way to the FSB and back to talk to the second core...

2. Smithfields:
64 bit = yes
HT = no
NXbit = yes
EIST = no

 

[Bona Fide]

Originally posted by: Viditor

Originally posted by: sonoma1993
Im just curious, what core does the intel dual core processors use? i know it core name is smithfield. But is it just 2 of the 500 series or 2 of 600 series processor stuck on there or what?

i know like the amd x2 are just 2 venice/san diego cores connected together.

1. There is a difference...the X2 cores have 2 Venice or San diego cores, that's true. But they are integrated as opposed to being just stuck together. What that entails is that they have an internal "router" and can talk to each other...the Smithfield must go all the way to the FSB and back to talk to the second core...

2. Smithfields:
64 bit = yes
HT = no
NXbit = yes
EIST = no

To make a long story short...

AMD > Intel

😛

 

[Hard Ball]

Yeah, it seems that intel dual core chips are really hurting on FSB bandwidth, with no SRQ or cross-bar switch, everything goes through only 800MHz FSB, including traffic between the two cores.

That's one of the reason why intel is having trouble with Paxville / dual core dual socket Xeons, since dual Xeons share FSB to begins with; unlike Opterons which each has NUMA and three HTT links to other CPUs and the chipset.

Imagine all memory/ graphics/ IO / and CPU internal traffic on four cores going through 800MHz FSB. Now that's a gridlock, on a NYC scale.