Wednesday, March 17th 2010
AMD Phenom II X6 Series Clock Speeds Revealed
AMD's much talked about six-core processors, the Phenom II X6 series, consists of three models for what we know in good detail: model numbers 1075T, 1055T, and 1035T at the bottom. But what remained a mystery were their clock speeds. A leak by one of the motherboard manufacturers who recently released supportive BIOS updates reveals the clock speed for the entry-level Phenom II X6 1035T to be 2.60 GHz, that of the 1055T to be 2.80 GHz, and of the high-end 1075T to be 3.00 GHz. As revealed earlier, the 1035T has a TDP of 95W, while the 1055T has both 125W and 95W variants in the making, and the 1075T has a TDP of 125W.
With so many motherboard vendors specifically designing their upcoming products to be ready for "140W TDP", it isn't hard to guess that there could be a higher-end part in the making, which is probably clocked even higher, and comes with the Black Edition branding. All Phenom II X6 processors are based on the "Thuban" core, a port of the Istanbul six-core architecture to the AM3 package. There are six cores with dedicated 512 KB of L2 caches and a shared 6 MB L3 cache (total cache being 9 MB). The new chip will be announced in the weeks to come.
Source:
TechConnect Magazine
With so many motherboard vendors specifically designing their upcoming products to be ready for "140W TDP", it isn't hard to guess that there could be a higher-end part in the making, which is probably clocked even higher, and comes with the Black Edition branding. All Phenom II X6 processors are based on the "Thuban" core, a port of the Istanbul six-core architecture to the AM3 package. There are six cores with dedicated 512 KB of L2 caches and a shared 6 MB L3 cache (total cache being 9 MB). The new chip will be announced in the weeks to come.
65 Comments on AMD Phenom II X6 Series Clock Speeds Revealed
Also, many already know there's no point in dropping DDR2 and upgrading to DDR3 right now. The next massive upgrade which people will perform IMO is Bulldozer with it's new socket:toast:
So many options for my new build hmmmm what do get hehe
Desktop use:
run all 6 cores at stock, with CnQ on
Gaming:
Disable/clock down cores 3/4/5/6, and clock the first 2 cores up high (since most games are only dual threaded)
that kind of efficiency/adaptability interests me :D
There is to many i want :cry:
I've tried Phenom II quads, and they don't impress me compared to even my Yorkfield. But, a reasonably priced 6 core? That does impress me, and if I can manage it, one will find a home in my secondary rig.
I want a hexacore upgrade for my system without a new $100 mobo and $75 in RAM as well :o