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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102 Comments on AMD Working on Black Edition Phenom II X6 Part
AMD = The People's Company .
I'm not a Fanboi of AMD by no means nor am i someone who wants to pay $ for gimmicks
I really can't see the point of having more than 4 cores either But I still want a 6 core so I guess i do pay 4 for gimmicks LOL
I do a fair amount of encoding (rip blu ray movies into formats the PS3/360 can handle here and stuck em on a NAS) - and as i said before, with teh ability to clock down/disable some cores and clock up others, we're effectively getting the ability to turn say, a 3GHz 6 core into a 3.6GHz quad core, or a 4GHz dual core to suit whatever we're doing at the time.
Sure it'll take tweaking and testing to tune in for each CPU, but we're geeks - its what we do.
I rather save up for new sockets, unless your mobo is a total bad
That still leaves Intel ahead and the number of threads being useful isn't likely to go down it's likely to continue to go up However I don't think it will happen in this CPU's lifespan...so it's more for the I want MOAR POWER than is useful people...
Same with the AMD 6 cores....moar power than needed BUT at a far more achievable price range for most consumers
AMD would do it too, if they had the crown.