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Dude- did you get an Intel Mac, or are you just "coveting"?HCMarkus wrote:You might also consider the 3.33 6 core Mac... my fave.
Alas. Need I say more?Frodo wrote:Dude- did you get an Intel Mac, or are you just "coveting"?HCMarkus wrote:You might also consider the 3.33 6 core Mac... my fave.
Interesting. Verrry Interesting.At the heart of Sandy Bridge is an essentially new processor microarchitecture, the most sweeping architectural transition from Intel since the introduction of the star-crossed Pentium 4. Nearly everything has changed, from the branch predictors through the out-of-order execution engine and into the memory subsystem. The goal: to achieve higher performance and power efficiency, even on single-threaded tasks, where the integration of multiple CPU cores hasn't been much help. Additionally, each of those cores holds a revamped floating-point unit that supports a new instruction set called AVX. These instructions allow the processing of vectors up to 256 bits in width, and the hardware supports them quite fully. The result should be much higher sustained rates of throughput for floating-point math, giving new life to media processing applications and other sorts of data-parallel computation.