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Right now, the 16 cores and triple-channel DDR 3 memory support of the Xeon W5500 look like an expensive luxury but we predict it will become the de facto workstation hardware for 2010. ® More CPU Reviews... Intel Nehalem Xeon 5500 series AMD...
The words impressive, awesome, market-leading and best in class are all too often used by IT journalists to describe a new CPU or GPU. However, the Xeon W5580’s speed is such that it does make you want to reel off those tired, overused phrases.For...
I truly wish I had some older Xeon 5400-class hardware here to add to the mix. There’s a clear jump from the Xeon 5500s to the 5600s—and that’s just an evolutionary step up. Older Harpertown chips would have illustrated the gains...
The new Nehalem Xeons deliver a level of multi-threaded performance that is breathtaking. And that pretty much describes the price too. ® More CPU Reviews... Intel Core i7 AMD Phenom II Socket AM3 VIA Nano AMD Phenom II Socket...
The Nehalem Xeons truly astounding leap in performance over prior generations, in a range of applications, speaks for itself. The largest gains came in our scientific computing/HPC tests, where the Xeon W5580 proved to be between 50% and 100% faster...
Dopo aver analizzato, con questo articolo, quali siano le principali caratteristiche architetturali introdotte da Intel con i nuovi processori Xeon 5500, è il momento di passare ad un'analisi prestazionale delle potenzialità che queste nuove cpu...