Six-Core Showdown, AMD's Hexacore Clocks Leaked to Web
Six-Core Showdown, AMD's Hexacore Clocks Leaked to Web
Posted 03/19/2010 at 8:10am
| by Paul Lilly
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Right now all the talk is on Intel's 6-core Gulftown chip, and rightfully so (see here for our in-depth evaluation). But in a little over a month, AMD will dish out its own 6-core desktop lineup dubbed Phenom II X6. AMD hasn't offered up a lot of details on its upcoming chips, but that's okay, because some key info may have been inadvertently leaked to the Web.
According to Tech Connect, Gigabyte released a handful of BIOS updates that reveal what clocks AMD's chips will run at. There will be four chips to begin with, including the Phenom II X6 1035T, 1055T (in both 95W and 125W TDP flavors), and the 1075T. As it's been leaked to th Web, the 1035T will come clocked at 2.6GHz, while the 1055T will kick things up a notch to 2.8GHz.
On the higher end, the fastest clocked hexacore -- the 1075T -- will sport a 3.0Ghz clockspeed, which is 333MHz slower (in clockspeed) than Intel's Core i7 980X Extreme Edition part.
Stay tuned, as these are subject to change, and we still don't have any pricing info.
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DBsantos77
March 19, 2010 at 2:33pm
The 1075T is most likely to be the Black Edition proc. I can't wait. This is going to be great for Rendering without spending wads of cash for Intels hexa.
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ocnier
March 19, 2010 at 2:17pm
The killer point for these chips is possbile rumored pricing of $499-$599. That's half the intel point. If its true, then intel is gonna take a big hit. Time will tell.
Athlonite
March 22, 2010 at 9:40pm
sorry but half the price also includes half the performance it's about time AMD put up a fight and made CPU's that can compete clock for clock with Intel's core i7 then and only then will true competition begin to happen with price
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gendoikari1
March 19, 2010 at 1:10pm
Then again, sometimes clock speed isn't everything. Compare a 3.6-3.8 GHz Pentium 4 to, say, a 2.4-2.6 GHz Athlon/Core 2 Duo/Phenom/anything really.
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Athlonite
March 23, 2010 at 2:29am
Don't get me wrong i root for the underdog AMD i own one (Athlon x2 7750BE) but compare that to the equivalently clocked core 2 duo and it gets it's butt smacked all I'm saying is AMD has nothing to compare to an Intel core i7 a core 2 quad maybe but not an i7
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bird
October 18, 2010 at 6:15am
This blog makes useful information for us..great post... pendulum wall clocks
Neufeldt2002
March 19, 2010 at 11:03am
I really hope that these chips will be comparable to Intel's lineup. The compatition would be a win for us consumers.
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