amd 12core, and CS5????

[Sven Seynaeve]

What about using amd's new 12 core opterons with a quadway tyan MB, would this work with cs5 , or is everything still Intel optimised until lately????

any info on this would be appreciated. It could give you 48 cores, on 1 MB, wich would reduce render times and such I guess..


amd 12 core: http://www.amd.com/us/products/serv...ries-platform/pages/6000-series-platform.aspx
MB http://www.tyan.com/product_SKU_spec.aspx?ProductType=MB&pid=670&SKU=600000180

 

[Andreas W. Eliseussen]

AMD themselves say that "AMD balanced platforms, comprised of CPUs, GPUs and chipsets, provide a great environment for Adobe Creative Suite 5 (CS5)."
But i'm not sure if that is backed up by any test data

 

[Sven Seynaeve]

I know their might be advantage using an nvidia cuda fx5800, but would this work on a tyan motherboard and with amd opterons??? What would the extra cores really generate as realtime performance?? any ideas???

 

[Subhadip Sen]

Intel Core CPUs include the SSE4.2 instruction set which dramatically improve performance in many processes like rendering/previewing. AMD instead uses SSE4a. Thus, Intel CPUs are preferred for CS5. At the same time, CS5 scales well with multi-core CPUs and AMD's strategy of offering so many cores for the same money might just make up for its architectural deficiencies. Whether it does, I don't know, someone will have to perform benchmarks.

 

[Sven Seynaeve]

Would be nice, when someone which gets acces to these proc's and mb's could indeed do some test and post..., I'll look around and see what I can do

 

[David McGavran]

What about using amd's new 12 core opterons with a quadway tyan MB, would this work with cs5 , or is everything still Intel optimised until lately????

any info on this would be appreciated. It could give you 48 cores, on 1 MB, wich would reduce render times and such I guess..


amd 12 core: http://www.amd.com/us/products/serv...ries-platform/pages/6000-series-platform.aspx
MB http://www.tyan.com/product_SKU_spec.aspx?ProductType=MB&pid=670&SKU=600000180

We don't do anything to hurt AMD. We have a few engineers with AMD machines. More cores the better in general. Cuda needs nvidia. We do use SSE for our optimizations.

Cheers

Dave