Tom’s Hardware benchmark confirms i5 660, i5 661, i7 870 faster than i7 980x.

This benchmark was for Lame and the results indicate that the i5 660, i5 661, and the i7 870 all tied for first when encoding audio from wav format to mp3 format. They all outperformed the i7 980x. Lame is obviously not SMP for more than 2 cores. I said something to this effect back… Continue reading Tom’s Hardware benchmark confirms i5 660, i5 661, i7 870 faster than i7 980x.

Benchmarks

Phoronix Global benchmark Top of the World. Why yes, Virginia, that is a 16 Core Dell R900 that I just out performed by Thirty-Three PERCENT, with a dual core system that was not overclocked.

High Performance Computing. Part 2 of 2. Multiple Core advantages and disadvantages.

There are numerous myths even in the technical community related to the advantage of multiple cores and multi-threading. In part 1 of this article I used my car/highway analogies for simplification. I will use some of that same analogy in this article. Most current applications are written for 32 bit application and only use one… Continue reading High Performance Computing. Part 2 of 2. Multiple Core advantages and disadvantages.