Fastest Processor in the world

[jd]

See I don't use that wiki thingy, I never did trust it actually.
Gives out basic stuff, but your never to sure if its accurate...










JD

[Marcin]

But it is free. As most of free things ... are not perfect.

[jd]

...true.










JD

[iBook]

Intel has a 4 core processor @ 3.0 ghz and is in the apple mac pro

[doccybrown]

IBM Power6 5.6Ghz ^_^

[sammyc]

So what's the fastest now...

[Dren]

MIPS is Million Instruction Per Second.

It obviously depends on how many clocks there are per second IE the rate you clock the uProc BUT modern processors increase the input clock by multiplying it.

On top of that each microprocessor instruction can take a number of clocks to complete. I seem to remember that the early 68K took 158 clocks to do a divide !

Then there's RISC and CISC - Reduced or Complete Instruction Sets. For example PICs take 4 clocks per instruction, they are RISC - but they do simple things very quickly so you can build up complexity in the code (where needed). So it depends on what instructions are being used and how many clocks they require.

Also 8, 16, 32, 64 bit etc - if you really need the resolution then the speed to process will roughly increase as a square of the difference. I.E. a 16 bit uProc will be 4 times slower than a 32 bit instead of 1/2.

Then there's bus speeds and I/O interfaces, memory managers, maths co-processors, 2D accelerators, 3D accelerators, DMA.....

Basically it's extremely difficult to analyise what is the fastest. You can at best get a rough guide but then you have to ask "what are you going to use it for, and what software" Comparable uProc will all have their strengths and weaknesses and be suited to some applications more than others.

So work out what it's to be used for and read the reviews (real ones with measured benchmarks and not just some d1ck head teenager saying awesome!) then finally go for the AMD one !

I hope that this helps

I think that AMD has a new core out in June so best to check that before buying now ?

[donutty]

I think that nowadays the question isn't how fast your processor is... but how many you have. Parallel computing has been used for years and is the basis of all the world's fastest supercomputers.

[Mixeur]

[Dren]

Errr... why is that funny ?

[Mixeur]

It is funny to say to wait for next AMD core, when we know the results of just released Phenom rev. B3 cores...
AMD failed the K8L just as Intel failed the Netburst Architecture. Hope it will be better for next generation (codename Bulldozer, expected in 2010)

[andamus]

Phenom are the K10 project, K8L was the Turion 64

[Mixeur]

Maybe. Now yes, but originally who knows ?

I think K8L was the original codename for Phenom. But when it has been unofficially revealed by the press, it was not a good advertisement for AMD : it sounded to close to K8.
But it is close because Phenom are not a complete new Architecture. It is just an improvement of K8. But for marketing reason, I think codename was changed to K10. K10 sounds new ! So what was K8L ???
Hmm OK, let's find a good explanation : L sounds like "Low", like "Low Power". Bingo ! And what is a K8 low power ? A good old turion of course !
It is quite strange that AMD refers to Turion 64 as K8L more than one year after its release, whereas usually we know Architecture codenames 2 or 3 years before release...
The guy who explained that Phenom was K10 and not K8L was maybe the AMD Technical director, but he was the marketing director aswell ...
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2007/02/06/amd-explains-k8l-misnomer

This is my opinion but I know it could be completely wrong.

[master slaf]

it would be the amd x4 quad core it runs at 10.3 ghz

[soad112]

correction mr. slaf the amd x4 quad core only runs at max 9.8 but the intel core 2 x4f quad exteme runs at 12.2 ghz worlds fastest up to date and half the price