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AMD new FX CPU a huge hornswoggle
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Anne Onime
Aug 10, 2011, 7:02:15 AM8/10/11
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Those shams say it has N cores, but there are only
N/2 FPU!
So who is gunna build a "high-performance" engineering
workstation with them? Can't be must good for number
cruching?
N/2 FPU!
So who is gunna build a "high-performance" engineering
workstation with them? Can't be must good for number
cruching?
Yousuf Khan
Aug 10, 2011, 3:23:53 PM8/10/11
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It's a shared 256-bit FPU that can be independently split into two
128-bit FPUs for use by each integer core. 128-bit FPU is the vast
majority of FPU usage (such as x87, and SSE), 256-bit FPU is only
available through the new AVX instruction set, which is rarely used.
Yousuf Khan
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