CPU What is the best single core processor chip?

My teacher stated that the best cpu in the world is 12 core processor made by apple. Is this a true statement? I thought apple's MAC pro used 2 x6 core processors and combining the two they get 12.

 

anything made by apple cannot be 'best' in any aspect. true.
but seriously its the best APPLE processor not best ever

 

Single core is not the same as single-CPU. Are you sure you're not confusing the two?

 

*Correction single cpu not single core. Thx for correcting me Phalanx

 

Yes, it sounds like you may actually be asking 'which cpu has the most cores intergrated into one package?' because even the one the one with the most may not necessarily be the best.Doesn't that PS3 chip (which is obviously less useful than a modern multi-core x86) have a stack of cores too?

 

The best Apple CPU right now is Apple A5, which is a dualcore ARM CPU in iPhone 4S and iPad 2. CPU used in any Mac is Intel, and yes, the best single CPU is i7 sixcore, closely watched by i7-2600K and will be overtaken by Sandy Bridge-E CPU soon.

So your teacher is... well... at usual teacher standard (people who know the stuff wouldn't work as a teacher for teacher salary, so go figure).

Unless we start talking about supercomputing etc etc.

 

Why? I don't see Intel or AMD making 12core chips. That is if a statement above is true and someone can verify it.

 

As far as I'm aware, apple do not make 12 core cpus.
And intel have made 6 core, and AMD 8 core (although the 6 core intel is far superior performance wise)

 

Apple doesn't make any x86 CPUs, and only dual core ARM CPUs.

 

So what is than? http://www.apple.com/macpro/

 

Click on tech specs. And you get :

Two Intel Xeons. That is not Apple and not 12-core single CPU.

CPU made by Apple are :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A4
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A5

That is all they made.

 

The new Mac Pro offers two advanced processor options from Intel. The Quad-Core Intel Xeon “Nehalem” processor is available in a single-processor, quad-core configuration at speeds up to 3.2GHz. For even greater speed and power, choose the “Westmere” series, Intel’s next-generation processor based on its latest 32-nm process technology. ”Westmere” is available in both quad-core and 6-core versions, and the Mac Pro comes with either one or two processors. Which means that you can have a 6-core Mac Pro at 3.33GHz, an 8-core system at 2.4GHz, or, to max out your performance, a 12-core system at up to 2.93GHz.

 

That's not a 12-core CPU though. That's 2 x 6-core CPUs.

 

I remember reading about some apple chip that could be used for weapons guidence or sommot, cannot find anything on google, and it might have been like 15 years ago :s

 

1x6, 2x4, 2x6. They are still Intel Xeons, and the top model is still a 6-core Xeon.

 

Weapons guidance is no big deal:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Pigeon

 

K thanks,so it's 2 x6=12 not 1x12=12 like he explained it.

 

Tyan makes a motherboard (Tyan Thunder n4250QE) that can host 4x 12-cores opteron and it's daughter card (Tyan Thunder M4985-SI) can host 4x addtionnal 12-cores opteron .... 96 cores on a single motherboard !

 

No your wrong! It holds 4x six core processors which is = 24 cores