24 Core Dunnington System Tested
24 Core Dunnington System Tested PDF Print E-mail
Written by Chris Tom   
Wednesday, 01 October 2008 08:13
The Inquirer benchmarked a 4 way Dunnington system from Intel which means 24 cores were in use.

Well, OK, still better than going through FSB or memory, as you can see from the further four-fold latency jump when doing that. And that memory bandwidth number looks a bit low compared to the Opterons, but then the humongous caches cover quite a bit of that data traffic here. For some reason, the multi-core traffic as measured by Sandra 2009 is somewhat slower than on the old 65nm Clovertown Xeon with the four-core, dual-die shared FSB. The graph curve stays in the similar shape though, which is notable.