[coreboot] Why does the Opteron 6328/6220 have two NUMA nodes?

[Taiidan at gmx.com]

On 02/03/2018 01:59 PM, Nico Huber wrote:

> Hi Taiidan,
>
> On 03.02.2018 18:20, Taiidan at gmx.com wrote:
>> Despite that probable memory slowdown I have noticed a significant 
>> gaming performance increase with my higher clocked 8 core vs my 
>> slower clocked 16 core but I am curious as to if it would be worth it 
>> to use a C32 board for gaming instead.
>
> I would test that indeed. Games are often designed/optimized for very
> simple dual/quad core cases (number increasing, though). There also
> exist six-core C32 K10 processors, and, IIRC, they had a dedicated FPU
> per core. 
Oooh I would to know more :0
Where did you hear about that?
> Maybe it's worth testing them as well, if you have a game
> that makes use of more than 4 threads.
I have many :D

Most of my games can use 8 threads.