Monday, March 22nd 2010
AMD Working on Black Edition Phenom II X6 Part
AMD's lineup of six-core desktop processors under the Phenom II X6 banner indeed includes a high-end part. A Bahrain-based etailer disclosed prices of some of the models, which includes a Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition. This chip operates at 3.20 GHz, with a TDP of 125W. Being a Black Edition part, it sports an unlocked BClk multipler that helps overclocking. AMD plans to sell this chip at US $295. The Phenom II X6 1055T is the other part with a price-tag. This 2.80 GHz chip also has its TDP at 125W, although we've lead to believe that AMD will release a 95W variant, too. The 1055T goes for US $199. Both chips are based on the "Thuban" core, which feature six cores on a monolithic die, with 9 MB of total chip cache (512 KB L2 per core, and 6 MB L3 shared).
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Alienbabeltech
102 Comments on AMD Working on Black Edition Phenom II X6 Part
On a single core application it does
But that's impossible :(.
But I can hope game devs start actually taking advantage of the hardware available right? lol
Vista and Windows 7 now does automatically utilised most of your cores most of the time. Same with ubuntu and other distro
although you can get 3rd party to manually core each app for you
the 4xx cards arnt even out yet :laugh:
The thing is its not hard to make an engine scalable at all, they just need to stop being lazy XD
But back to OT, awesome pricing!
Good prices!
What is the release date?
This will force Intel to release a new line up of Six cores processors with ~$300 to fight against AMD new processors !!
I want to see AMD break Intel head like what ATI did to Nvidia !! :D
these will work with existing AM3 socket boards? not am2+ though, correct?
Why does this show 12mb of L3 cache while these are being "pre-advertised" as 9mb L3 cache? It also shows a DDR2 and 3 memory controller.
Interesting that they kept the DDR2 controller. That would mean that these Phenom II X6 would also run on AM2+ boards.
Can't beat 6 cores for $200 (assuming this would work on my GA-MA785GM-US2H)
I would say 790FX can serve for a while (unless u get bored with it :D).