8-core Mac!

[Peter Korsten]

Andy Tarpinian schreef:

> On Jan 9, 2008, at 2:23 PM, Peter Korsten wrote:
> 
>> Sun have a CPU with eight cores, where each core can run eight  
>> hardware
>> threads. That means, 64 hardware threads. Yea! But they are only good
>> for integer stuff, so no luck for rendering.

Actually, it *does* have one FPU per core, up from one FPU per CPU:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UltraSPARC_T2

Which is still not one FPU per thread, but hey, beggars can't be choosers.

>> Which brings me to the question: how many floating point units does  
>> the
>> Xeon have per CPU?
> 
> on the apple site it shows a AfterEffects benchmark as being 2.3x  
> greater than a Quad 2.66Ghz
> 
> so it's not just faster it makes my work greater! wow 

That's Apple for you. :)

- Peter