Re: Intel TurboBoost in practice

2010-09-20 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Sep 20, 2010, at 8:41 AM, Ivan Voras wrote: [ ... ] > If I understand correctly, TurboBoost is supposed to increase the frequency > of one or a small number of cores only? > > What is the physical increase in frequency on this CPU when TurboBoost is > enabled? It depends on how many cores ar

Re: Intel TurboBoost in practice

2010-09-20 Thread Alexander Motin
Ivan Voras wrote: > On 09/19/10 06:57, Alexander Motin wrote: >> Getting back to that topic I would like to share some more results. This >> time I was testing Core(TM) i7 870 @ 2.93GHz. It has 8 logical cores and >> bigger allowed TurboBoost effect. I was testing real time of net/mpd5 >> port buil

Re: Intel TurboBoost in practice

2010-09-20 Thread Ivan Voras
On 09/19/10 06:57, Alexander Motin wrote: Getting back to that topic I would like to share some more results. This time I was testing Core(TM) i7 870 @ 2.93GHz. It has 8 logical cores and bigger allowed TurboBoost effect. I was testing real time of net/mpd5 port building, using single CPU. I was