CPU/Mobo AMD's six-core Thuban pixellized

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Cebit 2010: Works happily in AM3 motherboard

We had a nice photo shoot with working engineering model of AMD's upcoming Thuban six-core CPU. The upcoming Phenom II X6 Thuban is still in its early stages and AMD simply wanted to show that it works on AM3 motherboard. At this time the precise clocks or any info whatsoever haven't been disclosed.

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We do know that this one is made at 45nm manufacturing process, supports AM3 motherboards, should have 6MB of L3 cache and a C-state performance boost. It supports DDR3 1333MHz and as you can see from the picture below it happily works with Corsair's 8GB kit with CL 7-7-7-20 latencies at 1.60V.

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The motherboard comes from Gigabyte and it is the only thing that can be seen from the marks on the CPU itself is that this is indeed an engineering sample that apparently needs 1.3V of voltage.

According to our previous posts, AMD apparently plans two SKUs but the precise clocks or differences between them hasn't been disclosed and the new CPUs should show up in Q2.

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Fudzilla - AMD's six-core Thuban pixellized
 
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kaneunderground said:
watch out intel i7 x980 :) ...
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The i7 980X doesnt need to watch out for Thuban.
Theres no way the Thuban is going to perform anywhere near the i7 980X.
Its the price that may set the ball rolling for Thuban.
If they price it correctly, say between 15-20k then it sell well, else ..........
 
^^IMC is not onboard :P Its integrated on processor itself :P

Maybe 890XX meant for 32nm offerings :P

Darn just bring the Hyperthrading and 32nm onboard :P I am worried that this can even beat higher end i7 since it will 8thread vs 6:P
 
these are going to be 1/3rd the price of the 980x...or even less....not going to be really competitive till end of 2010 (32nm parts)...
 
Phenom II x6 can easily beat higher model Core i7 hands down .

If Phenom II x6 is priced well between 10k-15k then Core i5 750 and Core i7 920 is history . A 10k/15k Thurban will cream the i7 920. Intel will be doomed and AMD will once again regain the title " Kings of the 'enthusiast VFM' segment " once again.

God bless AMD. They always do their utmost to keep platform costs down making enthusiats CPU's affordable for the mainstream and masses
 
hmmm im waiting for this processor for my next upgrade!! i hope it performs well :) BTW does anyone know if the Gigabyte 890GX chipset MB is available in india yet? its listed on the gigabyte.in website though
 
@Anubis: So essentially you're comparing that 6-cores Phenom, with 4-cores i7-750 and 4-cores (8-threads) i7-920. So Intel's doom is inevitable.

Way to compare mate! :bleh:

I might be living under a rock... cause as far as I remembered, AMD was always the "King of VFM segment". You want VFM platform, AMD is the choice... you want absolute performance monster, no money constraint, Intel is the choice. I didn't know that AMD had lost their "King of Enthusiast VFM Segment" title?
 
i really doubt if the Thuban can really beat high end i7, coz i7 with 8 threads are really efficient as if it were 8 cores. Moreover, AMD was planning to clock these chips really lower, like 2~2.4 Ghz. And still the limited with dual channel DDR3 1333 :(

anyway it will give a good run for your money. WIll be defenitely vfm offering and nice competition for the i5 and i7.
 
Its not the high no. MHz of memory bandwidth that matters, rather its the tight timings that AMD CPUs prefer and like. And performance comparison can't be made until the CPU get launched. Whatever...but AMDs will always be the true value products.
 
hellgate said:
The i7 980X doesnt need to watch out for Thuban.

Theres no way the Thuban is going to perform anywhere near the i7 980X.

Its the price that may set the ball rolling for Thuban.

If they price it correctly, say between 15-20k then it sell well, else ..........
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Very true, i7 i980X has nothing to worry about, this will confirm that too:-



Overclock3D :: Advanced Search

It's a BEAST waiting to be tapped. OMFG 4.5GHz on the FACKING stock cooler(NEW)....WOW, 4.2GHz all benchies stable....twice the performance...

approximately 20 TIMES performance in AES Encryption(yes, if the i7 i975 wasn't fast enuf)

EDIT:-

THE review has been removed. WHAT THE FACK, but I guess it's the NDA, OMG trust me guys, I saw everything, and there's one thing I noticed.

The test system had a HD5870, and using i7 i980X in comparison to a i7 i965Extreme, the 6core got lowest frame rate of some 48 and 58 when OCed, and 4core got a measly 38, so we see somethign startling.

CRYSIS was believed to be 2core + speed necked, but here's something that turns that around.
 
iGo said:
@Anubis: So essentially you're comparing that 6-cores Phenom, with 4-cores i7-750 and 4-cores (8-threads) i7-920. So Intel's doom is inevitable.

Way to compare mate! :bleh:

I might be living under a rock... cause as far as I remembered, AMD was always the "King of VFM segment". You want VFM platform, AMD is the choice... you want absolute performance monster, no money constraint, Intel is the choice. I didn't know that AMD had lost their "King of Enthusiast VFM Segment" title?
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We never know .

i7 920 had taken the title "King of Enthusiast VFM Segment" from AMD

Anyways , Phenom II x6 success depends entirely on the pricing . If its priced between 10k-15k , then its a sure shot success
 
Anubis said:
We never know .

i7 920 had taken the title "King of Enthusiast VFM Segment" from AMD

Anyways , Phenom II x6 success depends entirely on the pricing . If its priced between 10k-15k , then its a sure shot success
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The i-7 took the "King of Enthusiast VFM Segment" from Core 2 Quad IIRC.

Once the C2D hit the markets intel has never looked back(performance leader). They have topped the performance charts from then on IIRC.

I remember my friends getting the C2D at isane prices when it was released 3.5-4 yrs back. The 1.86GHz C2D was 10k and the 2.4GHz C2D was selling at 17k. :ohyeah:
 
Anubis said:
Yeah , its i7 980X but it'll be priced 1000$ per piece
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Its $1500 per unit.

kaneunderground said:
Am an intel fan i just said watch out coz amd price well compared to intel.. Intel x980 i guess its 35nm ! compared to thuban 45nm ! :)
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the 980x is 32nm. AMD is FAR FAR away from that stage.

soumalidon said:
lets hope the AMD 6 core is slightly better than the i7930 at least hmmmm....
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if you can get a good multi thread optimized application to use it, it may be a close competition.Single threaded ones the i7 will win hands down.

But, the downside is that these Thuban chips may not overclock very well....
 
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