Priest of the Order of the Butterfly
Posts: 730 from 2003/2/24
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@Zylesea
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I guess they will use an okay ppc. But the price of the whole x1000 will probably be insane.
I disagree in the first part but agree in the second one
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We will probably see no SMP (as far as one can say it is just not possible w/o breaking the compability).
Krashan described a clean method to launch tasks in other cores. It's not SMP but a good solution for new software without breaking A-Box API
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And with one core only the 970 isn't that much superior over the e600 core
I disagree because G5 memory bus is *way* faster than G4 one.
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So I guess the effort to support the 970 is not worth the benefit.
I think it would bring quite a lot of benefit: 2Ghz G5 are not difficult to find and have faster memory bus than G4 so things like FullHD Video could be possible. In addition to that G5 machines include faster gfx I/O too.
