REVERSE Hyperthreading for AM2!

[Nitestick]

i'm pretty sure that it wasn't really a chip IBM was testing rather than just a bunch of transistors. i'm not sure it was actually processing anything. a chip would be considerably slower than what IBM has shown these transistors are capable of but still i would guess impressive. also keep in mind this experiment was said to have been conducted at 3 degrees above absolute zero and the home overclocker won't be able to pull that off

 

[Apokalipse]

true, though it did get 350GHZ at room temperature.

anyway, let's get back to reverse hyperthreading

 

[Infomatic]

Not much to get back to, IMO. Some people are saying that its good enough even if its not official (I'm in those), others are saying that they want it to be official or its a no-go. Either way, we still get to wait for Conroe to see if the option in the BIOS works. And the day after Conroe is released, AMD is supposed to make a statement on it. So its still Conroe, lol.

Either way, since both companies have the technology, it doesn't really give anyone the upper hand. Its great for us though, since our performance increases dramatically in most of our applications.

I guess some of us could talk about how this was a slap in the fact, Gaara and myself included. He might still stick to having it be official, but I was speechless to see this avaliable in AM2, lol. AMD kept it under some pretty d*mn good wraps to make us think that it wouldn't be here for a long long time.

<3 surprises.

 

[Nitestick]

i still think it is very doubtful. from virtually any standpoint it doesn't seem to be the best course of action to hide the technology on the chips nor does it seem as if AMD could have figured it out this quickly. the closest to official reports from AMD suggested something around 2009 in the way of RHT and AMD's R&D department aren't normally optimistic or pessisimistic withe their estimates. generally when they say something will be ready it will be ready. well if AMD have got it down "more power to them". i don't think it's impossible the rumour is true i'm just not going to hold my breath on it.....i might die

 

[Apokalipse]

AMD works together with IBM on a lot of things. SiGe transistors is one of them

 

[Infomatic]

Not that again...*groan*

 

[dario03]

So do you guys think if RHT and Multiplexing works out maybe Amd and Intel will develop more advanced versions and start makeing cpus with a lot of cores running at slower speeds? Like say 10 cores at 500mhz but if you needed 2ghz for a program it would combine 4 and have the others run other smaller programs.

Thats what I always thought they should do. I figured that would work out well because I assume they could make 10-500mhz cores run cooler than 2-2.5ghz cores, especially since then you could have the processors that are generating the most heat be spaced out more.

 

[Infomatic]

The improvement in performance won't be twice what it is of one of them. So 10 x .5Ghz cores won't make a 5Ghz Single Core. 2 x .5Ghz might get you a .8Ghz. Also, for now, you can only make 2 cores act like 1, or 4 cores act like 2, or 8 cores act like 4. You can't make 8 cores act like 1, atleast not yet.

Also, it would be impractical. What WILL happen is that you can get Quad Cores that will become Supercharged Dual Cores. And so on.

 

[Lord AnthraX]

Also, it would be impractical. What WILL happen is that you can get Quad Cores that will become Supercharged Dual Cores. And so on.

would that introduce Reverse reverse HT?


Take a quad core, make it into a Supercharged Dual core, but then into a Mega Supercharged Single core??


wow.....

I wish they would do this for GPU's or somthing...

 

[Infomatic]

No. Reverse HT is what would make a Quad Core into a supercharged Dual Core. Anything more than that is not possible. There is no way, currently, to make a Quad Core into a really fast Single Core.