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OT: Tilera
OT: https://www.tilera.com/products/TILE-Gx.php
This processor has anywhere in between 16 to 100 cores, and promises to lower build costs, but only operates at 1.0 to 1.5 GHz.
If Sony offers support for this cpu, would it still be able to edit tightly compacted files such as AVCHD (or whatever they have out when it hits the market and becomes affordable), because the increased number of cores lowers the frequency need?
Just checking my understanding. Thanks.
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The thing about multiple cores is that you need to have multiple things for them to do simultaneously to take advantage of all the compute power that they have to offer. When rendering a format that uses full frames (like DV AVI) you can give each core a frame to render and then join them all back together. When you use a format like MPEG2 where 14 B & P frames depend on a single I frame (in a 15 frame GOP) now you have interdependencies and it becomes harder to coordinate. (one possible solution is to give each core 15 frames, but I digress…)
At any rate, all of this is moot. You will never see this technology taken advantage of in anything you or I will ever get to use. I should never say never, but the CORE processor has been around for quite a while (it’s used in the Playstation 3) and it has 9 processors and is optimized for multi-media and would make be an awesome inexpensive render farm for personal use and no one has done anything about it. 🙁 (but we can dream can’t we)
I’m just waiting for a motherboard that will let me mount 2 Intel Core i7’s for 8 cores and I’d be happy. (The Xeon’s are just too expensive)
~jr
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Thank you for that.
>>I’m just waiting for a motherboard that will let me mount 2 Intel Core i7’s for 8 cores and I’d be happy. (The Xeon’s are just too expensive)
Yeah.
I forget where I read it, but someone said they are not going to make a ‘skulltrail’ (twin processor) motherboard for the Core i7. I forget if it was because of the architecture, or not.
Anyhow, the upcoming Core i9 is supposed to have six cores, and an even smaller (32 nm) process. So that should be as fast as twin i7’s. I think it is supposed to use the same socket as the 2.66 i7.
Norman Willis
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>>Anyhow, the upcoming Core i9 is supposed to have six cores, and an even smaller (32 nm) process. So that should be as fast as twin i7’s. I think it is supposed to use the same socket as the 2.66 i7.
To be complete, I should expound.
They are supposed to release the new 32nm hexacore Core i9 in a month or two. It is supposed to drop right in to the LGA 1366 socket. So some guys are purchasing the Core i7 in 2.66 GHz now, and putting a really good radiator/dual fan combo on it:
and then they are overclocking it up to 3.whatever GHz (like maybe 3.4 GHz, since it overclocks really, really well, and is supposed to be very stable, even with just a good air cooler).
Then when the price drops on the Core i9 they will upgrade to that chip, without having to replace either their mobo or their DIMMs.
So this is supposed to be a great time to upgrade, because you can get an immediate 40% speed bump right now (before overclocking, and before hyperthreading); and then when the Core i9 comes down you can upgrade to six cores without having to replace your mobo or RAM (and maybe even without having to reload Windows).
Just to be sure to get the LGA1366 socket.
I hope this helps.
Norman Willis
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Wow, thanks for all that info. You may be right that now is a good time to upgrade if the i9 uses the same socket. (Hmmm…. more to contemplate) 😉
~jr
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