Deneidez on 16 November 2008
| Soleron said: May I refer you to my own opinion on AMD's roadmap? http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?id=49026 12-core sounds good but, seeing as most applications barely take advantage of two cores, twelve is not going to be much better. Each core will probably lose to Core 2, definitely lose to Core i7 (Nehalem) and be decimated by 32nm Nehalem in 2009 and Sandy Bridge in 2010. |
Applications don't take advantage more than two cores, because there weren't that many cores when they were made/designed. However its not trivial to use more cores than there are different kind of tasks, but its possible. For example my current simulation program takes as many cores as you have. There are no limits.(Ok, theres actually one limit. If theres more cores than work, but that would make it run real time with only few clock cycles.)
As for AMD's roadmap... Those processors have way too small cache. Using stuff from ram instead of cache is way too 'slow'. :/
