is it running at 100% all the time of the video? on the threads side i don't see the utilization of the CPU, while it shows 100% on the left side.

This is just sick.

Can it bruteforce =D?

I could understand if the 8 core has 2HT for each core; that would make 16 threads simultaneously; but 128threads is rather... unbelievable...
128threads are probably not for the average small business anymore

But can it....

run CRYSIS?

Someone had to say it.

Fractals anyone?

Article seems a bit misleading -- isn't the new chip 8-core/16-thread, which in a 8-socket system would provide a 64-core/128-thread environment?

One quantum processor can make 3000 times more calculations in a single second than this load of crap! Too bad, no one is making quantum computers more affordable.

The dude keeps on pausing but who cares when he brings us somin this HARDCORE

what's so impressive about a computer drawing a grid?

Awesome. Just hope programmers learn how to harvest that much power.

Holy.Shit. O_O

Yeah no doubt, soon as we have a (software) use for all these cores and threads, we'll be in business!

I think this is a sloppy headline. The actual processor is 8 cores, 16 threads (double the current generation), and with multiple sockets, can become 128 threads (8 socket x 8 cores x 2 hyperthreads per core).

... who can afford it? Do GLOBAL economic crisis ring a bell??? So in a sense EDDIEROOLZ is right by asking:
"But can it....
run CRYSIS? "

Was about time to get in 8S NUMA space - AMD whipped their asses for ages in that segment.
“up to nine times the memory bandwidth of the previous-generation Intel Xeon 7400 platform.”
Even with independent FSBs, the previous platform was heavily BW limited to 4S and just 4Ch DDR2 FBDIMM RAM, with less than spectacular performance.
The jump to 24Ch (8CPUx3Ch) DDR3 RAM is finally eliminating that bottleneck.

Yummy boy, get it straight, even if you're running after catchy headlines. Or 8C/16Th, or 8S/128Th. Too much windblow$ dumb$ down...

I don't really know much about this. But I'm trying to figure out why mac pro uses Xeon, and why "workstations" use server processors. Because my dad is borrowing my baby that i built (computer of course) 'cause his died.. and he needs me to build him a new one. He is an architect and does 3-D rendering and all that jazz and I am aware of the fact that gaming computers don't run so hot doing that stuff... anyways where I was going with the mac, I'm wondering since the mac uses server cores should my build use this?

Poor AMD! Is AMD's stock falling today?

How is the power consumption for 8 core, hope its efficient.
Is it 24 MB of L2 or L3 cache? That is a lot.

If 2-thread HT typically yields anywhere from -10% to +10% performance, does 16-thread HT yield anywhere from -160% to +160% ? SRSLY, some people continue to buy every bit of Intel marketing BS that comes out, HT has always been a complete waste of transistors, this article is worthless without benchmarks(note: NOT synthetic benchmarks, real benchmarks).

i guess we're not so far away from having a supercomputer in a desktop anymore eh ? with this speed , by 2012 , i'll have an 8 core computer like this on my desk . probably 32-40 nm but who knows ? we're so close to breaking moore's law.

Wait, what an epic fail of an article and title, it is NOT an 8-core, 128 thread, although you'd have to CAREFULLY read the whole article to figure that out though. It seems little different than previous Nehalem CPUs, just some ridiculous claims of increased memory bandwidth. SRSLY, why not just say:

"AMD and Cray demonstrate Dual-core, 10,000 thread Opteron"

Fail.

Yes, but can it run Windows ME, and be stable? THAT is the question!!

But seriously, 8 cores. Man, software hardly supports 4 cores, let alone 8. I adopted the Quad Core and know that a couple of my cores probably sit near idle most of the time as it is. Probably won't be jumping on any 8 core CPUs any time very soon.

But, if game developers can start writing engines to take advantage of 4, or 8, or more cores, I might actually consider. Course, we'll see how much these suckers cost when they come out. Maybe then I'll upgrade to the i7 chip.

Overclock them and play Counter strike, i`tt will headshot automatically .

I'm so excited and I just can't hide it

wow, you'd have to have a pretty poorly coded app to be taking advantage of 16x hyper threading. seeing as how all hyper threading does is run another thread when the thread it was running stalls for some reason. mind you, it will be good for running tonnes of apps at once, as the extra cache should make for faster thread/app switching as well.