[colug-432] processors and cores and GHz

[FiL Farris]

If you take the Mac part out of the equation there is lots of information
out there on the individual Intel CPU's & their performance.  Bill S.
summed it up well above with it depending on what multi-threading software
you may run but with individual core OC'ing (I hate saying Turbo as there
is no button on the case for it :) the single core performance hit is not
that bad.  As for disks I don't think you can put a single 3.5 drive it.  I
know that the base comes with a SSD and a even speedier 256GB PCIe flash
option is available.  All other storage is external.

Im not a Apple person at all but I have been following the story of the new
Mac Pro.  If you haven't seen it you should take a look on their site as
its kinda neat.  It not for me (cost vs performance & upgrade path) but I
love to see new hardware especially something different then the same old
box.

UNIX is user-friendly. It's just a bit picky about who its friends are.


On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 8:37 PM, Bill Schwanitz <bilsch at bilsch.org> wrote:

>
> On Oct 31, 2013, at 8:06 PM, Rick Hornsby <richardjhornsby at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Curious if anyone can shed some light on the difference between these
> configurations, all other things being equal, for a system with Intel Xeon
> "E5" processors:
> >
> > 3.7GHz quad core
> > 3.5GHz 6-core
> > 3.0GHz 8-core
> > 2.7GHz 12-core
>
> It really depends on what kind of applications you are running. Heavily
> multi-threaded applications will benefit from a larger number of cores but
> single-threaded applications will suffer in performance as the individual
> core is less powerful.
>
> >From the list above if you want the best balance, go with the 6-core
> chip(s). Personally, I’d rather have a lot of ram than a lot of cores. That
> and better disks - ssd if you can afford it. Though once you go to ssd you
> won’t ever go back to spindals!
>
> Bill
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