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Originally Posted by
jrbroad77 
That's fine, and AMD has 12-core Opterons. As for what needs more cores, rendering in any 3D content creation (3D movies like Toy Story, or rendering CAD models).
As for Haswell, nope, it's 4C/8T. Intel isn't a charitable foundation, they'd much rather sell their 6-cores for $600-1000 until AMD matches their multi-threaded performance with Steamroller.
http://www.slashgear.com/intel-haswell-shark-bay-detailed-ahead-of-2013-debut-10194496/ 50% faster graphics, slightly bigger die. There's no room for another 2 cores plus an IGP. Maybe Skymont will have mainstream 6-core.
And therein lies an issue. If the only way to justify 8+ cores is to have to be doing something like rendering a movie, then at that point how is that "consumer"? At that level I imagine you could do a "spare no expense" 16 core dual socket / quad socket workstation or a server cluster.
Someone should update the Wiki page on Haswell because it says "Up to 8 cores" but I can't find a source from this year that mentions core count. I figured with 8 core SB-E Xeons being out that they'd bump the mainstream core count up another 2 cores for Haswell. (Ask me in 2 months and I'll let you know for sure

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Originally Posted by
G3RG 
Oh and those Xeon's you mentioned... yea they get Bulldozed, Piledriven, and Steamrolled by AMD's Opterons.
But Intel has 90% of the server market.
Edited by dr/owned - 4/23/12 at 11:27pm