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posted by janrinok on Thursday May 12 2022, @07:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the but-can-it-run-Crysis? dept.

Tachyum's Monster 128 Core 5.7GHz 'Universal Processor' Does Everything

Tachyum has created one of the most powerful processors in the world: The Prodigy T16128 Universal Processor. The Prodigy T16128 has 128 64-bit CPU cores operating at up to 5.7GHz, 16 DDR5 memory controllers, and 64 PCIe 5.0 lanes, and can handle general-purpose computing, high-performance computing (HPC), and AI workloads — all on a single chip.

Tachyum calls Prodigy the world's first "universal processor," and says it was designed from the ground up to be a multi-purpose CPU capable of running a multitude of the world's most intensive computing applications. Prodigy not only handles all of these different tasks on a single chip, it does so with a power budget that's 10 times lower than that of traditional hardware — and at one-third the cost.

Tachyum boldly claims the Prodigy supercomputer chip offers four times the performance of Intel's fastest Xeon on the market and triple the raw performance of Nvidia's H100 in high-performance computing applications. All while being 10 times more power efficient.

To create such impressive performance within a single core architecture, Tachyum says it built Prodigy with matrix and vector processing capabilities from the ground up — rather than making them an afterthought. Prodigy supports a range of data types, including FP64, FP32, TF32, BF16, Int8, FP8, and TAI, all from the individual CPU cores themselves.

[...] The Prodigy T16128 runs on a 5nm process technology of unknown origin, and operates within a very small (for the power it provides) 64 mm x 84mm FCLGA package. Tachyum says the chip is capable of performing 12 AI PetaFLOPS and 90 TeraFLOPS when it comes to HPC workloads. The Prodigy chip can also run binaries for x86, ARM, RISC-V, and ISA. For some perspective, a single Nvidia A100 is only capable of 5 AI PetaFLOPS.

And, to answer the question posed earlier: from theverge.com

But can it run Crysis? The answer is now yes, no matter what PC you own. Nvidia is bringing Crysis Remastered to its GeForce Now streaming service this week, alongside Crysis Remastered Trilogy, Crysis 2 Remastered, and Crysis 3 Remastered.


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by Freeman on Thursday May 12 2022, @07:56PM (5 children)

    by Freeman (732) on Thursday May 12 2022, @07:56PM (#1244534) Journal

    My main thought is this "Do you have an SSD?", because a lot of that slow loading and junk is due to a very slow HDD. Sure, you'll still have the standard windows bloat, but you won't also be waiting on a spinning platter.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 12 2022, @10:43PM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 12 2022, @10:43PM (#1244604)

    Can confirm. My employer-provided Windows 10 laptop is equipped with a 256GB nvme disk, it takes more than 20 minutes after login for the fans in my laptop to go quiet again. Before that, it's telemetry, antivirus, IT policies, updates, onedrive, and whatnot that's keeping my machine busy.

    The only thing the nvme disk adds is that I can still perform some work while the OS is busy pulling itself together.

    • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday May 13 2022, @12:13PM

      by Gaaark (41) on Friday May 13 2022, @12:13PM (#1244712) Journal

      Holy fork!
      What a piece of shirt Windows is!

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    • (Score: 2) by Freeman on Friday May 13 2022, @01:41PM

      by Freeman (732) on Friday May 13 2022, @01:41PM (#1244723) Journal

      Ah, you're partially suffering from Laptopitis, they suck horrifically when it comes to heat management. Yet, here I am using a work supplied Intel NUC, which arguably has worse heat management than most laptops. Fan is going constantly, no matter, if something is happening. Shouldn't take 20 minutes for IT stuff, etc. Sure, Windows Updates can seriously take a good bit of time, but so long as you're not dealing with that, it shouldn't be that bad. It could just be taking the fan that long to get everything cool enough to slowdown, which makes a lot more sense.

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  • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 12 2022, @10:47PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 12 2022, @10:47PM (#1244605)

    It never ceases to amaze how features that are standard on other OSes remain non-existent on Windows. In this case pretty much every other OS knows not to start every app at the same time, but Windows will happily do so.

  • (Score: 3, Touché) by epitaxial on Friday May 13 2022, @02:22AM

    by epitaxial (3165) on Friday May 13 2022, @02:22AM (#1244647)

    Windows doing updates makes an SSD feel like a 5400 rpm platter drive.