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Eight-Core Xeon Out Next Month

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Reported here, here and here..

 

Intel look to be prepping the launch of a new eight (8!) core Xeon processor at the International Solid State Circuits Conference in SF next month. Reported to be the Nehalem EP processor and manufactured with the cool 45-nanometer process. Likely to be known as Xeon X5560.

 

TechRadar did some benchmarking of a dual processor EP-based rig back in November 2008. Samples used then ran at 2.8GHz, with launch models expected to run at 3.2GHz.

 

All this makes for a very interesting prospect of a 16-core 3.2GHz Mac Pro - given more credence by this report on HardMac via Aquamac of a new design MacPro with new specs.

 

Exciting!!!

 

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Synaesthesia

Not really dissapointing. They're not any more expensive than the previous Mac Pros, or any Apple product.

 

That said, Long live the hack-scene! Viva!

 

edit: mmm, I see they are slightly more expensive, my bad.

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THEHAWKs
The New MacPro's would be Based Around Intel Nehalem Gainestown DP server 4 Cores Per CPU Dual Socket 8 Cores 16 with Hyperthreading

 

6 Core CPU with 12 cores with Hyperthreading will be the Nehalem Successor Westmere

 

I think we will see a New Mac Pro by the end of March just in time for the 1Q or Q2 April

 

and if the New MacPro is A dual Socket i think the Price Will be Over 3,000$ i dont think apple can do anything about the Price

I told you Guys it was going to be More Expensive its around the same Price when the 5400 Chipset MacPros

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The new macpro´s ARE more expensive...For more bucks you only get a quad core and even though it is a Nehalem CPU you can´t say it will beat an 8 core Harpertown in CPU demanding applications as Logic Pro.

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The new macpro´s ARE more expensive...For more bucks you only get a quad core and even though it is a Nehalem CPU you can´t say it will beat an 8 core Harpertown in CPU demanding applications as Logic Pro.

 

I think we can say that there is very little applications which are effectively multi threaded. On video field the most threaded part of work is rendering but even there, you must enable qmaster or greed computing to use all processors (and you need a lot of ram). For the most part of the work, the bottleneck of the process are hard disks. If you have a decent dual core, you have a lot of possibilities, that for everything - except rendering - you will be first stopped by hard disks.

 

I told you Guys it was going to be More Expensive its around the same Price when the 5400 Chipset MacPros

 

Under this temporary conditions when octocore is very expensive, I think It's logical for Apple to have actually two platforms in mac pro range. Scientific "custom" applications, with appropriate task, can use effectively all cores and for them price differences are negligible. But you are right this is adaptation on Intel move. We will see with comparison to HP and Dell in next weeks if Apple also take his share and raise his margins.

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The new macpro´s ARE more expensive...For more bucks you only get a quad core and even though it is a Nehalem CPU you can´t say it will beat an 8 core Harpertown in CPU demanding applications as Logic Pro.
Actually, it will, as Logic can only use 2 cores, so single threaded performance is more important, so the new one is faster.
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