Server processors tend to go for all out performance, which you do want, but that need for speed leads to nasty things like heat output and energy consumption that you have to manage one way or another. Of course processor manufacturers will gladly sell you some finely tuned CPUs that claim to pull less energy […]
Read more Energy Saving Server CPUs tested, may be full of hype
The inevitable future for the computer processor is the addition of more and more cores to improve performance for those tasks that are highly parallelizable or just enjoy warming up a datacenter as quickly as possible. AMD’s Opteron 6174 “Magny-Cours” processor is a parallelized application’s dream with 12 cores to play with and some tweaks […]
Read more AMD Opteron 6174 Processor packs 12 cores of crunching power
In the server sector you’ll find computing density is much more important than clock rates, although that does help things move along quicker, so you’re likely to find many more cores on the CPUs in the multi-processor environment they so richly deserve. Intel’s Xeon 5670 Westmere processor runs along at 2.93GHz sports 6 cores and […]
Intel’s Nehalem architecture, commonly found in the company’s Core i7 desktop chips, has been tearing up benchmarks for a few months now completely outclassing the competition, and its own previous generation, by a wide margin.The company has been working to…
Read more Intel Xeon W5580, Nehalem Goes Upmarket
