Yes. Amd tri-cores were quad cores with a defective core, so they disable the defective core<br>And amd isn't alone. Nvidia Geforce GTX 260s were GTX 280s with disabled stream processors.<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
2009/8/20 Jonathan Aquilina <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:eagles051387@gmail.com">eagles051387@gmail.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
a friend of mine told me that the amd tri cores were quads with one core disbaled?<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 8:26 PM, Greg Lindahl <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lindahl@pbm.com" target="_blank">lindahl@pbm.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div>On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 06:10:43PM +0200, Jonathan Aquilina wrote:<br><br>> someone brought this up in another post and instead of hyjacking that post i<br>> started a new one. what are the advantages of having processors that defy<br>
> the normal development and progressions of cores.<br>><br>> 2 4 8 etc like intel follows but amd seems to have done 2 3 4 6 ?<br><br></div>Intel has done 6 core processors in the recent past, and there are<br>
currently 3 memory controllers on Nehalem cpus.<br>
<br>The point of a 6 core processor is that's all that fits, plus there isn't<br>enough memory bandwidth to support 8 cores with many workloads.<br><br>The point of 3 core processors was selling at a lower price point, and<br>
being able to sell defective chips as good.<br><br>-- greg<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>Beowulf mailing list, <a href="mailto:Beowulf@beowulf.org" target="_blank">Beowulf@beowulf.org</a> sponsored by Penguin Computing<br>
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