8-core Mac!

[Andy Tarpinian]

On Jan 9, 2008, at 12:54 PM, Andy Tarpinian wrote:

>
> On Jan 9, 2008, at 12:24 PM, Jay Vaughan wrote:
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>>> The cool thing about this is that the price went down, I can buy  
>>> an 8
>>> core for a base of $2,799. With improved graphics cards as well.
>>>
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>> We got an 8-way Penryn machine today at work (woot!) and it is, quite
>> frankly, damn fast.
>>
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>
> I think I see one in my near freelancing future. I'm curious to see
> what happens with the combo of these machines, Leopard, and Adobe CS3
> in multiprocessor/core support. As far as with in 1 application, like
> say after effects using 700% of processing power for a task, like a
> render. Right now on my Quad with tiger CS3 Aftereffects tops out at
> about 260% processor use in a render(that takes about 2 hours to
> complete.) I'm curious if the program is limited to something like
> that, or with a 8 core machine i would see a huge increase processing
> power for a task like this.
>

p.s. the render shows it using 45 threads and 1.50 GB of real memory

this machine is a 2x 3 Ghz dual core Xeon w/ a NVIDIA Quadro FX 4500  
(512)