From our usual sources of information, the upcoming 6 core Thuban processors will make it’s first appearance in the market somewhere in May 2010. If our predictions are right, we would see lots of them at the Computex Taipei 2010 show to be held in June 2010.
The codenamed Thuban series of processors are hex cores processors of 45nm process. We understand that it will have a 95W TDP. Some information we gathered showed that some models can be up to 125W which we can’t confirm.
The accompanying chipsets would be available as early as Apr 2010. We expect it to be the AMD 890FX discrete chipset (with SB850). From what we understand, it is said that the AM3 socket processor should also work with older 790FX or 790GX boards with a BIOS update (some models).
We look forward to see the first Hexcore processor from AMD.
Here are some possible models
January 28th, 2010 at 12:34 am
For the server lover I suppose.
Six cores for application developement on the desktop along multiple hosts on a virtual machine.
January 28th, 2010 at 9:28 am
This news if true is actually pretty ordinary. Sorry to say it but things aren’t looking good for AMD until bulldozer (which will be 2 years late). They cant expect to compete against Intel’s Core i5/i7 range for over 12 months with price cuts and with something that is not significantly better than phenom 2 X4 (a product designed to compete against the 2+ year old Core 2 gen!) Some website did a review comparing phenom 2 X4 and X6 at 2.6 GHz recently and the Phenom X6 is going to barely beat out the lowest core i7’s let alone Intel’s 980X. Where are the Phenom 2 FX’s?
I bought a 955 and Gigabyte 790GPT-UD3H board because I was led to believe there would be a good long term upgrade path but now because it seems that bulldozer is going to be incompatable with AM3 and there is only the underwhelming phenom X6 processors guaranteed to work in socket AM3 I am having serious reservations about my purchase. Get your act together AMD or you will be struggling against VIA and making low end netbook CPU’s.
January 28th, 2010 at 4:47 pm
@ AI K Seltzer Amazing someone can comment on the performance of the Phenom II X6, before the specs are released or a single bench mark detailed. Brillant
February 1st, 2010 at 8:51 am
Ok. I read a few times that AMD can’t keep up with intel. Firstly I would like to state that many of AMD’s CPUs can not keep up with intels. The ones that do not come respectively close though, and in some cases are neck to neck with intels. A lot of AMDs processors do beat a lot of intel processors also though. They are just ones that you normally do not hear a lot about because people just don’t care about them in particular. AMD is not far behind intel though. They are very close behind them. Theres a good explanation why Intel was ahead a majority of the time in the processor game. Thats because intel crippled their compile code. It automatically used the most obsolete out dated instructions for all AMD processors. After this has been discovered, when you go back and look at benchmarks, it actually seems quite obvious that this is the case why AMD processors seemed to all most all ways fall short of expectations. Intel is forced to redesign a compiler that is fair to all AMD processors. Exactly when this will happen – who knows. But when it does, then we will see how AMD fairs up to Intel.
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