AMD Confirms Six-Core 'Thuban' Consumer CPUs
AMD has confirmed that the company will soon launch six-core 45nm consumer level processors.
IDF kicks off today and while Intel is was busy getting ready for the party, AMD has stepped in and snatched just a smidgen of the limelight by announcing that it is readying a hexa-core processor aimed at consumer desktops.
The chip, codenamed Thubon, is set for release sometime next year and according to Maximum PC, it will be backwards compatible with existing AM3 and AM2+ motherboards. Maximum PC cites AMD officials who Monday said that the heavily rumored Thurbon was "a done deal."
Thurbon will feature all six cores on a single 45nm die, feature an integrated DDR3 controller and is expected to have 3MB of L2 and 6MB of L3 cache. No word on branding or clock speeds as of yet but MPC reports the Phenom II X6 as a possible label.
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And as always. If you've got an app/game that is made to run with this, great. If not, you'll be better off with a 2core thats over clocked to the titz.
Mind you, software should be a little bit better for all the Xmas titles that are scheduled; but we're a bit knackered for legacy things.
If you render 3D anything. This will still not be fast enough
^ and that's the problem we're seeing now.
With one or two exceptions, quad core is only just starting to be utilised by games, but any serious media production still seems to require more juice than what our top-end consumer chips can produce.
We'll see how 6-core chips come into play now, but to be honest I'm more interested in the i9 than the X6.
I like the sound of that. I had a feeling AMD would do something like this, too..so we'll see 6 pyhsical cores (AMD) vs. 4 pyhsical + 4 logical cores (Intel). Unless you opt for the 'i' range, these rigs might leave your Core 2 Quad in the dust..
Reports are it is due out "some time next year"... They'd better bring them out sooner rather than later if intel goes ahead with their own hex-cores in Q1 of 2010. The roadmap I saw for that launch was pretty old so it may have been pushed back...