Thursday, June 23rd 2011
Turbo Core Equipped Phenom II X4 Chips Sold in Japan
When AMD was giving final touches to its desktop six-core processors, the Phenom II X6 series, there was also talk of a new quad-core processor line based on the same six-core Thuban silicon, but with two cores disabled. The resulting silicon was codenamed "Zosma". Apart from the two "potentially" unlockable cores, Zosma brought to table AMD's Turbo Core technology, which dynamically overclocks two of the four cores beyond the chip's rated speed, while respecting the chip's stock TDP value. The Phenom II X4 960T, one of the first such chips, however, never made it to the market, AMD shelved Zosma.
Market hounds in Japan recently spotted stocks of "Zosma" Phenom II X4 960T Black Edition, thought to have been shelved until now. This quad-core chip with unlocked BClk multipler comes with the part number HD96ZTWFK4DGR, and is sold in PIB (processor in a box) packages. The chip was tested to allow unlocking of the disabled fifth and sixth cores, proving it's based on the Zosma silicon. It comes with a stock clock speed of 3.00 GHz (15x 200 MHz), but can bump clock speeds up to 3.40 GHz (17x 200 MHz). The chip features 512 KB of L2 cache per core, and 6 MB of shared L3 cache.
Sources:
ASCII.jp, ComputerBase.de
Market hounds in Japan recently spotted stocks of "Zosma" Phenom II X4 960T Black Edition, thought to have been shelved until now. This quad-core chip with unlocked BClk multipler comes with the part number HD96ZTWFK4DGR, and is sold in PIB (processor in a box) packages. The chip was tested to allow unlocking of the disabled fifth and sixth cores, proving it's based on the Zosma silicon. It comes with a stock clock speed of 3.00 GHz (15x 200 MHz), but can bump clock speeds up to 3.40 GHz (17x 200 MHz). The chip features 512 KB of L2 cache per core, and 6 MB of shared L3 cache.
30 Comments on Turbo Core Equipped Phenom II X4 Chips Sold in Japan
6 cores for the price of 4 and all that, but since SB came along, Phenom II's have just been left in the dust.
And unless AMD has truck loads of 6 core Phenom II's that they cant sell, i doubt we will ever see an official release.
Any performance comparison between these two? Seems like SB win to me.
the 960t is on ebay at $160...
The SB point was mainly centred on comparing different generations of tech and the prices accordingly,bulldozer to SB-E may be a fairer comparison as thuban is still old architecture much less deneb.
Intel are beyond dominating AMD now, beating them not only in performance but value for money aswell.
AMD need Bulldozer..
AMD still surviving on rehashed athlon 64 architecture,fair play to them-its been a long long time!
We all need bulldozer to be competitive for a myriad of reasons tbh,competition is good for both camps and good for prices!
but on notebook, err.. Llano APU still be the first thing that i would consider
But bear in mind that both can be overclocked; the 1100T won't go much past 4ghz easily, and since its stock speed is already close to that, the 2500k does much better at the same 4ghz (most seem to be able to get 4.5ghz on a 2500k without too much trouble, making it worse).