Intel Los Lunas 2, Ivy Bridge Details

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel Los Lunas 2, Ivy Bridge Details

As the latest chapter of the pre-launch Intel Ivy Bridge story, here's some details on Intel's Ivy Bridge reference motherboard, the Los Lunas 2 with the Panther Point chipset. There is also some cpuinfo data on one of the forthcoming Ivy Bridge models.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=17127

[FireBurn]

Wow pasting /proc/cpuinfo and lspci information

What's next publishing the patches from mailing lists for us to parse through?

[DoofusOfDeath]

One of the reasons I care about Sandy Bridge is its fused-multiple-add instruction (FMA). I assumed Intel was going to designate the presence of that instruction with an "AVX2" cpu flag. But that flag wasn't present in Phoronix's dump of "/proc/cpuinfo".

Anyone know what the tell-tale flag is going to be for the FMA instruction?

[elmo23x]

One of the reasons I care about Sandy Bridge is its fused-multiple-add instruction (FMA). I assumed Intel was going to designate the presence of that instruction with an "AVX2" cpu flag. But that flag wasn't present in Phoronix's dump of "/proc/cpuinfo".

Anyone know what the tell-tale flag is going to be for the FMA instruction?

AVX2 and FMA3 will come next year with Haswell.

[cking]

Wow pasting /proc/cpuinfo and lspci information

What's next publishing the patches from mailing lists for us to parse through?

Be nice if the article mentioned a lot more of the new features of the CPU rather than the "new, shiny, faster" kind of blurb.

[uid313]

You should have ran it through the Phoronix Test Suite.
And collected info from lsusb, lshw, dmesg, dmidecode, etc.

[FireBurn]

You should have ran it through the Phoronix Test Suite.
And collected info from lsusb, lshw, dmesg, dmidecode, etc.

I'm sure that's where Michael got the information from - so there's probably some poor sap at Intel getting kicked around the office for publishing the info

[popper]

hmm they put FireWire on there but still no thunderbolt to make it standard on all ivy +, dont they have faith in their own 10gigabit copper/fibre controller yet ?

im in the market for a few Ivy Bridge and will probably be looking to recommend them in time if there's a substantial improvement but until i see a real life 2012 x264 720/1080P test ill reserve judgement, and yet again i ask for a full x264 supplied "checkasm --bench" , as that would be a very good option to add to the Phoronix standard tests too.