By: Ricardo B (ricardo.b.delete@this.xxxxx.xx), May 15, 2013 4:15 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Doug S (foo.delete@this.bar.bar) on May 14, 2013 5:51 pm wrote:
> How much more die area does adding another core add these days? More than 5%, but not a whole lot
An Ivy Bridge core is 12mm², or 8% of the area of a 4C/GT2/8MB L3 chip.
> cases, along with SMT, which addresses the "niche" of servers. It is nice that it helps in certain cases
> on desktops as well, but desktops were not the target for SMT. Even if it never helped on desktops and
Well, Atom was not aimed for servers and it had SMT.
And trust me, it helps!
> actually cost a few percentage points it would still be in the desktop core - it would just be fused off.
Which it is, for quite a lot of models.
The mainstream Sandy/Ivy Bridge models are 2C/4T and 4C/4T.
There are a few 1C/1T and 2C/2T models and the very expensive 4C/8T (and 6C/12T) models.
> How much more die area does adding another core add these days? More than 5%, but not a whole lot
An Ivy Bridge core is 12mm², or 8% of the area of a 4C/GT2/8MB L3 chip.
> cases, along with SMT, which addresses the "niche" of servers. It is nice that it helps in certain cases
> on desktops as well, but desktops were not the target for SMT. Even if it never helped on desktops and
Well, Atom was not aimed for servers and it had SMT.
And trust me, it helps!
> actually cost a few percentage points it would still be in the desktop core - it would just be fused off.
Which it is, for quite a lot of models.
The mainstream Sandy/Ivy Bridge models are 2C/4T and 4C/4T.
There are a few 1C/1T and 2C/2T models and the very expensive 4C/8T (and 6C/12T) models.