Kicking AMD’s Dead Carcass
May 29, 2009 · Posted in SQL Server
I wrote about the Nehalems a while back. I was about to write about AMD’s come back but they are due in 2010 while Intel will one ups them again before the end of this year. This is after, it is rumored, that they are delaying the Nehalem-EX just because they can. How is that for innovation? However, what are you going to do? An eight core four socket box with DDR3, and 96MB of cache will smoke an eight socket AMD HP dl785 box. Things will get fun in the database area.
The Nehalem-EX Advantage
- Intel Nehalem Architecture built on Intel’s unique 45nm high-k metal gate technology process
- Up to 8 cores per processor
- Up to 16 threads per processor with Intel® Hyper-threading
- Scalability up to eight sockets via Quick Path Interconnects and greater with third-party node controllers
- QuickPath Architecture with four high-bandwidth links
- 24MB of shared cache
- Integrated memory controllers
- Intel Turbo Boost Technology
- Intel scalable memory buffer and scalable memory interconnects
- Up to 9x the memory bandwidth of previous generation
- Support for up to 16 memory slots per processor socket
- Advanced RAS capabilities including MCA Recovery
- 2.3 billion transistors
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