6 Cores. 12 Threads. Say Hello to Intel's Gulftown!
The new Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor costs $167 per core or $83 per thread.
Today at the Game Developers Conference, Intel previewed platforms featuring the latest Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor, codenamed "Gulftown," the first 32nm, six-core processor with 12 computing threads.
We've put the shiny new Extreme processor through its paces inside our labs and we're mighty impressed that the Core i7-980X met our high expectations. Of course, at a cost of $1,000 per CPU, anything less than the fastest would have been a disappointment.
Check out a rundown of the latest and greatest from Intel with a walkthrough by Chris Angelini:
For the full story, check out our full review here.
Stay tuned for more Gulftown coverage as we're currently working on a Gulftown vs. Bloomfield showdown.
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Seriously, why do we have a UK mirror, I have /us as default tab under Opera and hate that every time I click home after forum message It goes to .uk.
/us is better in every way, I feel short changed...
Please leave my choice of which site I go to and stop re-directing me to .uk..... I want to be in /us even though I happen to be in UK
@moricon
Totally agree, the great advantage of the internet is being able to access sites that are in the US, UK etc without any restrictions or alterations.
I prefer the UK site to be honest
I am interested to see how Photoshop CS5 Native 64bit works with Windows 7 64bit on a computer built with 1 or 2 of these processors in it. Batch process a folder of 1500 raw photo's with out choking?
Faster than real time editing of 1080p/24FPS or better video...
Load balancing SQL Server 2008/2010...