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> Suggested reatail pricing for the initial model is $2649, with subsequent models expected to cost less than $2000 That's $44.15 per 1 GHz core. AMD FX-6300
by rorrr 14y ago
> Suggested reatail pricing for the initial model is $2649, with subsequent models expected to cost less than $2000
That's $44.15 per 1 GHz core.
AMD FX-6300 Six-Core 3.5GHz is $138 = $23 per core (and much faster cores).
Intel Xeon 5148 2.33ghz is $18.
- jlgreco 14y agoHow do differences in supporting-hardware/density change the effective pricing? It seems to me like the Phi cores could end up cheaper once you factor in everything else that you need to get that many cores of something else.
- rorrr 14y agoYou need just three of AMDs CPUs to match the 60 1GHz cores. You can get a quad CPU motherboard relatively cheaply: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Arima-Quad-CPU-16-Core-AMD-Opteron-Motherboard-w-PSU-/110585626008 http://www.ebay.com/itm/Arima-Quad-CPU-16-Core-AMD-Opteron-M... Also don't forget to add the same costs for the Phi solution.
- astrodust 14y agoThe 50-core Xeon sounded great up until the $2600 price tag. You can buy a lot of CPU cores for that much money if you have quad-socket boards like that.
- codewright 14y agoCost of power, power supplies, motherboards, memory, networking equipment, efficiency losses from synchronization, etc...