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Performance Monsters from AMD: Dual-Core CPUs in a Dual-Processor Workstation

Started by: Jizzler | Date 09/17/05 08:45:23 AM
Comments: 44 | Last Comment:  04/21/07 02:08:07 PM

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I guess it was alright from a purely 'workstation benchmark' view. But a lot of us don't sit around while we're waiting for our video or animation to render.

When I'm in After Effects and I set a comp to render out, I usually switch back to Photoshop to work on some graphics and whatnot for the next scene or whatever. And every now then I got to break to UT or Battlefield :)

Trust me, those cores will not go to waste.

I know this isn't in the scope of the article, but a market I hope will grow is multi-user systems. Our boxes are so powerful today that we don't need a seperate HTPC or a box for mom to check her email, just pop a terminal off the main and there you go. As chipsets allow more PCI-E lanes, more and more high-end graphics cards can be added. Jimmy and his three friends can frag off the same box!
[Posted by: Jizzler  | Date: 09/17/05 08:45:23 AM]
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You hit the nail! Thanks!
[Posted by: Flemming J. Tang - DK  | Date: 09/17/05 09:13:19 AM]
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Rather amazing that with all the man years software developers have had to date, they cannot yet universally design data structures to keep up with the hardware potentials.

If we can get rid of these proprietary barriers that consist of Non Disclosure Agreements, forbidden reverse engineering, lack of docuementation of pure hardware registers and bit patterrns that directly cause them to funtion. Imagine if a light switch with only two positions, one for on, the other for off, was hidden deep inside a so called Operating System, and Application Programmer Interface with proprietary lexical parses. And had no clue what the underlying switch mechanism was, but instead had to type things case sensitve (no space allowed!!) strings like "Please_turn_the light_on", or "Pretty_please_blink_my light".

End of rant.
[Posted by: iq100  | Date: 09/17/05 09:35:56 AM]
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You folks should've done benchmarking with something like Fluent (Engineering CFD app).

This supports multi-CPU/cores, 64bit (increase accuracy of result) and clustering of multiple PCs.

Using an application like that, you could've demonstrated the effect of scaling the number of cores from 1 to 4.
[Posted by: 432  | Date: 09/17/05 11:00:40 AM]
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Maya Zoo Render - X2 4800 results seem "off". I did the very same benchmark on my X2 4200, and i get 55 seconds.
[Posted by: Henshu  | Date: 09/17/05 03:34:48 PM]
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It would have been interesting to see how two Opteron 254 chips (at 2.8 Ghz each) would have stacked up in this test.

The 254 chip seems to have been introduced under the radar screen. The only place I find that sells them on the web is Monarchcomputer.com
[Posted by: JK  | Date: 09/17/05 06:05:12 PM]
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Could you give us some server-oriented test? For exsample, database performance or running several vitrul machines. I think that is the real stage of multi-core precessors.

But from this article, had given us a concept what application is using multi-core wll. Thank you, Xbit labs.
[Posted by: Holst  | Date: 09/17/05 06:16:28 PM]
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Certainly some multi-tasking tests would have been beneficial to a workstation review. Anandtech has started doing this, and whilst it needs refinement the concept is quite sensible, and should be taken up by other sites.
[Posted by: Graham  | Date: 09/18/05 05:12:16 AM]
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Would a dual Processor/Dual Core system help with gameplay (If not today how about down the road) And are there any motherboards out there that will allow dual proccessors and SLI for dual graphics cards?
[Posted by: Natedawg  | Date: 09/18/05 10:01:45 AM]
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What about running multiple video encoding sessions, how much of a hit is there in performance?
[Posted by: The Moo  | Date: 09/18/05 11:09:28 AM]
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Today, AMD mark the step...
[Posted by: CastleD  | Date: 09/18/05 07:44:59 PM]
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(coming from a non CAD user)
I was actually happy to see amongst such esteemed tested cpu combos as were in this article, just how nicely the X2 4800 showed. If the price of it isn't a worry, it does appear to be the 'swiss army knife' of cpu's, handling a wide variety of things with ease.

I did enjoy, however watching the # of things that scale and how well they scale. I expect this to grow over the next year to a much wider category of software :)

kudos.
[Posted by: Anemone  | Date: 09/19/05 02:20:34 AM]
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It would have been nice to see results of mpeg encoding as a background task whilst also doing a foreground task.
[Posted by: Isinor  | Date: 09/19/05 04:44:06 AM]
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"AutoCAD doesn’t support multi-threading"???

From the help in acad 2006:
The WHIPTHREAD System Variable in acad 2006 is normally ´1´ wich means ´Regeneration multithreaded processing only; regeneration processing is distributed across two processors on a multiprocessor machine.´
[Posted by: hannukjan  | Date: 09/19/05 07:46:23 AM]
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Interesting review/test, but perhaps in view of the fact that you're already shelled out for expensive opteron 275's, you could have gone that extra mile and used a Tyan K8WE with SLI too!
[Posted by: tiresias  | Date: 09/19/05 10:44:01 AM]
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the multi hreaded benefit is answered by the latest compilers and the applications compiled with them - no reprogramming is necessary
[Posted by: Dan  | Date: 09/20/05 04:08:26 AM]
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This board looks like a pece of shit compared to Supermicro H8DCE and Tyan K8WE.

Why use the worst SATA chip ever produced (Sil 311*) on a workstation product? 4+2 menory slots _one_ PCE-e 16, what a joke!
[Posted by: Dual Opteron  | Date: 09/23/05 01:02:20 AM]
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ohhfick mich
[Posted by: fud  | Date: 10/10/05 12:52:48 AM]
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Yes, yes, but will it allow me to play half-life 2 while burn a dvd at 16x and streaming hd video to my media center?
[Posted by: BrianY2K  | Date: 10/12/05 10:18:45 PM]
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interesting facts
[Posted by: nizamkhir  | Date: 06/04/06 11:29:09 AM]
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