Well you might have just got your head around Quad core systems, and be very proud of your Core 2 Duo, but at the CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas, Intel has been upping the ante again by producing a 8-core system that runs around 61% faster than AMD's Quad-FX project.
It's a prototype PC, using a 2 processor workstation board linked with a 8800 and 4GB of RAM. Benchmarking using 3D Mark06, it scored 6065, compared to the 3764 points scored by the AMD (FX-74) Quad Core system developed by AMD. Credit must go to Francois Piednoel, an engineer who works on benchmarking for Intel for the inspiration and design of the system.
Read the entire article here on THG who are reporting live from CES 2007:
http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/01/09/ces20 … ight_core/
It's a prototype PC, using a 2 processor workstation board linked with a 8800 and 4GB of RAM. Benchmarking using 3D Mark06, it scored 6065, compared to the 3764 points scored by the AMD (FX-74) Quad Core system developed by AMD. Credit must go to Francois Piednoel, an engineer who works on benchmarking for Intel for the inspiration and design of the system.
Read the entire article here on THG who are reporting live from CES 2007:
http://www.tgdaily.com/2007/01/09/ces20 … ight_core/
