when will intell make 8 / 10 / 12 core cpu's (16/20/24 threads)
we've been stuck on 4 cores for quite a while, and we barely made it to 6
any chance next year they might actually jump into 8~12 cores since we are going 22nm or so?
what are your thoughts about sandy bridge-E and broadwell/haswell
( i was thinking of buying a pc next month but i've been holding back wondering if it's not the best time to be buying since we might get 8 cores or higher sooner than i thought we would so i'm hesitating ( i need more cores for what i'm doing since i'm leaving a lot of cpu intense tasks open in the background 24/7)
nope. most applications don't even fully use 6 threads, so adding more cores is useless.
server processors are already at 8c/16t for intel, but that is a whole different story. servers usually run alot of VM's, so having alot of threads is advantageous. hence the 12core amd opteron
Sandy Bridge-E is a strong processor. Even the 3820 is quite a beast. Haswell, will be slightly better power consumption and better graphics. Probably mildly faster. If you really feel underpowered just get a 3930K overclock it and destroy almost anything. Its more then enough for consumer grade proccessing.
Its 6 physical cores, and 12 logical cores. If you are gaming, you wont use any of it. So really its still a move up of 4 cores. If you are rendering, it will give you a huge boost in performance.
gtx 670 i'm fine in gaming if i don't have anything in the background that's eating my cpu usage but it's annoying because i want my pc to be doing other things while i'm gaming
i'm using my pc for cpu tasks and not mainly gaming
hence why i'm asking you guys for your educated guesses on when intel's ocoto cores 8cores or higher might come on 2013? or 2014? how long should i wait?
If you got the money, I wouldnt bother waiting. Its a big bump moving up to 2011. They dont expect Ivybridge-e to have 8 cores (but it might), so it probably is Q4 2013 or maybe Q2 2014.
More cores is not always the answer (as AMD keeps proving) most applications these days are not made to take advtantage of more than one core and games rarely use more than 4. Basically this whole thing is just like the GHz war we had before, focusing on only one aspect of CPU performance. Efficiency is the key.
There are 8 core Xeons already. Also AMD has 16 core CPUs available now (but at far lower clock).
The problem is heat. Cramming all those high clocked cores inside a single small package creates too much heat to be removed without specialized and expensive hardware.
I know it's expencive but the jump to 2011 is well worth it... I'm running the 3930K and it runs sweetly at 4.5GHz. I know more games can not take advantage of all of the threads but having it run at 4.5GHz dose the job. I mainly play ArmA (Dayz) and a fiend of mine runs with simular perfomance with a i5 running at the same speed. The difference is I'm often recording with Fraps and get 30+ fps while recording.