Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[j3pflynn]

CJ - Thanks. So what kind of software might be able to use an even higher bandwidth with low latency to main memory? Something that hops around a lot with big chunks of data so that the caches would have to be refilled? That is the kind of situation I meant to refer to when I referred to "bandwidth starvation".

Is there any important software with a big or strategic market where Opteron could capitalize on the mem controller-to-core bandwidth advantage, if they could increase the bandwidth to main memory?

Of course, I guess they've already done it in a way with multiple CPU systems, but I was thinking more in the single CPU arena. It might become even more important when they come out with the dual-core chips; 2 mem controllers per chip would be a lot of pins!

Paul