AMD Phenom II x6 Thuban

ScOuT · 11-03-2009, 06:36 PM

Wow...I completely missed this one...AMD has a 6 core processor that will be backwards compatible with AM2+ and AM3 sockets. That would be an awesome media chip...the video encoding and photo editing would be great.

SMP client? Imagine the possibilities

There is a few release dates floating around...everywhere from Q2 2010 to Q4 2010...we'll see I guess.

http://www.maximumpc.com/article/new...ore_thuban_cpu

Ethan3.14159 · 11-03-2009, 06:41 PM

I'm very excited about this. AMD has had 6 core CPU's out for servers for a few months now. They cost multiple arms and legs though. Intel is supposedly releasing their 6-core for LGA 1366 around Q2 as well. This should be interesting. Even though I'm switching to Intel, I have to route for AMD here.

aviation_man · 11-03-2009, 06:45 PM

:O Nice find.... I can't wait

Although it would probably run for about $300

I can't wait for it!

StrangleHold · 11-03-2009, 06:50 PM

Yeap, people thought it would be a lower bin MHZ. since its a X6. But from what I have heard the first one will be clocked at 2.8GHZ. to keep it at a rated 140W, not bad for a X6 at 2.8. If you have atleast a 10 phase power setup board this puppy might clock as good as a X4.

I'm waiting for Bulldozer though.

2048Megabytes · 11-04-2009, 04:41 AM

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Originally Posted by StrangleHold

Yep, people thought it would be a lower bin MHZ. since its a X6. But from what I have heard the first one will be clocked at 2.8GHZ. to keep it at a rated 140W, not bad for a X6 at 2.8. If you have atleast a 10 phase power setup board this puppy might clock as good as a X4.

If this six core processor is 140 Watt running at 2.8 gigahertz that isn't too bad. The Phenom II 965 is a 140 Watt Quad-Core.

zer0_c00l · 11-04-2009, 05:03 AM

ya i seen them on newegg about 2-3 months ago

StrangleHold · 11-04-2009, 06:03 AM

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Originally Posted by 2048Megabytes

If this six core processor is 140 Watt running at 2.8 gigahertz that isn't too bad. The Phenom II 965 is a 140 Watt Quad-Core.

From what I understand they are dropping a bunch of Phenom IIs in the next few months and going with a newer stepping and replacing them with lower wattage models

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Originally Posted by zer0_c00l

ya i seen them on newegg about 2-3 months ago

Yeah they released the server version a few months ago. The Opteron Istanbul X6.

maroon1 · 11-04-2009, 08:52 AM

From the reviews I've seen Istanbul X6 often lose against i7 based Xeon even in multi-threaded application. Thuban is simply the desktop version of Istanbul

Unless Thuban have high clock speed like the current Phenom X4 (3GHz and above), I don't expect that it will do will even against mainstream i7

The worse thing about Thuban it have big die size because it made on 45nm process. So, selling these at low price may be a bad thing for AMD as a company

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Originally Posted by Ethan3.14159

I'm very excited about this. AMD has had 6 core CPU's out for servers for a few months now. They cost multiple arms and legs though. Intel is supposedly releasing their 6-core for LGA 1366 around Q2 as well. This should be interesting. Even though I'm switching to Intel, I have to route for AMD here.

AMD is probably releasing Thuban to compete with Intel i5 and i7, not with Intel 6-core

Intel 6-core is more that just adding two cores. It will have 12MB L3 cache, 32 nm die shrink, new set of instructions (AES) which should improve performance in encryption and decryption

Also, server processors are always expensive. Thuban should be much cheaper than Istanbul

StrangleHold · 11-04-2009, 08:14 PM

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Originally Posted by maroon1

AMD is probably releasing Thuban to compete with Intel i5 and i7, not with Intel 6-core

Oh bull, no there not. They are just releasing it because of Intel X6 coming out. Not to compete directly with it, but just to say they have one too. AMDs not going to compete against the i5/7 till Bulldozer is released.

G25r8cer · 11-04-2009, 08:44 PM

It would be nice once windows catches up to the hardware. Windows and games still dont fully utilize quad cores.

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StrangleHold VIP Member Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 11,170	Yeap, people thought it would be a lower bin MHZ. since its a X6. But from what I have heard the first one will be clocked at 2.8GHZ. to keep it at a rated 140W, not bad for a X6 at 2.8. If you have atleast a 10 phase power setup board this puppy might clock as good as a X4. I'm waiting for Bulldozer though. __________________ NZXT Apollo S75QB 750W ZEROtherm FZ120 Phenom II 720BE (X4) 3.5GHZ. Gigabyte GA MA790X UD4P G Skill DDR2 1066 4GB. MSI GTS 250 Seagate 7200.12 500GB. Welcome to the show

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