AMD K10 Engineering Sample in the Wild ( 12 core Processor )

HardOCP ^ | Friday September 04, 2009 | Steve

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

What looks like CPU-Z data on one of AMD’s Magny-Cours 12-core server processors has popped up on the internet today.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Screen Shots at HardOCP link

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[ShadowAce]

[mkjessup]

Now we can receive spam with even greater speed and efficiency, lol

[Bikkuri]

damn... I just upgraded to 4 core... o.O

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Save your pennies...may be a while before this makes it to the desktop.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Blam....what do you suppose a mask for this looks like?

[TChris]

Hmm... Something seems amiss.

Look closely; the left side of the screenshot shows TWO cpus and 12 cores. 12/2 is 6 cores per processor, no?

Isn't this just a dual-cpu system with two 6-core processors?

[rarestia]

Dual hex-core procs at 804 MHz? That seems awful. Apparently the authors don't know what to look for/at. However, the right graphic shows 1 clock @ 12 cores, but something still isn't right.

Still can't beat Nehalem for power. We installed our first HP ProLiant DL380 G6 servers today, and they SCREAM! 96 GB of RAM, dual quad-core @ 3.00 GHz, and our benchmarks had it chewing through SQL IOPS like a hot knife through butter even with a bottleneck of 4 GBps SAN connectivity and 15K RPM 3 GBps SATA disks.

[VeniVidiVici]

Check out the core voltage though. Could be one reason why everything is throttled back. If so I’m impressed.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Yes, I noticed that...and the right screen of the three shows at least one processor running at 1.6 Ghz....not bad if all 12 do that...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

You mean they might do something like Intel did?....

Oh well!!!

[TChris]

You mean they might do something like Intel did?....

No, that's not what I mean.

I mean that what has been captured "in the wild" may not be a 12-core processor, yet.

I have no doubt that AMD will produce an honest-to-goodness 12-core device, but this doesn't appear to be it.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Hmmm....not exactly sure how CPU-Z works.

[Marine_Uncle]

"Blam....what do you suppose a mask for this looks like?"
I haven't a clue.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

The version of CPU-Z is 1.52.2 which according to their website includes support for the AMD Istanbul Opteron processor.

[SunkenCiv]

Okay... a 12 core processor... and it's named K10... okay, never mind, no problem... ;')

Here's an oldie:

• Scientists Invent Transistor Made of a Single Molecule

[SunkenCiv]

AMD Inc. announced Monday an ultra-low power version of its six-core Istanbul Opteron processors, targeted at cloud computing customers. The power-efficient 40-watt AMD Opteron EE is designed for dense server deployments... Customers of Opteron EE will reap up to 30 per cent higher performance and performance per watt compared to quad-core Opteron chips, said Longoria. [Kathleen Lau, AMD releases ultra-low power Istanbul Opteron chip]

[SunkenCiv]

Just found out that the AMD Opteron 8000 Series 2600 MHz sells for $2,650.00, over a buck a mhz.

[Tainan]

darn...I just got my PII 450 working smooth.