AMD Pushing out the 6 Core “Istanbul” In June

admin — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 21:29:29 +0000

This is very interesting, do note that the Opteron family of processors are built for servers and not so much desktops. (That still doesn’t stop people from using them on desktops, I used an Opteron on my desktop for quite some time ) This processor, however will most likely only be really usable in the server environment or distributed computing projects to be honest. I have a Q6600 in my desktop computer, and I rarely see it go above 25% utilization. (1 core)

This processor could be very useful for virtualized servers, like what I use on this website. We’re of course speaking of VPS technology. Everyone knows that I love VPS’s. It’s reported that this processor uses 30% less power than the current quad cores AMD is offering. The six core processor is set to launch in June.

Seems to me that as these processors add on more and more cores, virtualized servers will get cheaper and cheaper as far as processing power is concerned. However, I don’t really think that’s where the price for these servers is really at right now anyway. My main cost is for the RAM and disk space, not so much processing power. I seem to have plenty of that available.

Still, I’d like to see AMD come out on top for something soon, Intel has had a lead for too long.

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AMD Pushing out the 6 Core “Istanbul” In June