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4:39 PM Intel's 6-Core Gulftown Core i7 980X Reviewed, Official release not too far away |
Following a series of rumors
that have been making the rounds on the Internet for a while now, it
appears that Intel's much-anticipated 6-core Gulftown processor.
Designed for the enthusiast market, the new Core i7 CPU will be part of
the company's 32nm-based line of processors. On that note, reviews of
the new Core i7 980X have just went online at various hardware sites.
This is clearly an indication that Intel will soon be announcing these
new processors and make them available for enthusiast consumers.
Reviews of the new processors have surfaced
on several
websites,
consequently providing details about the specifications and features
that have been enabled in Intel's new processors. According to details,
the new processor comes with a factory-set core frequency of 3.33GHz,
the same as the previous Core i7 975 model, featuring a 4-core
architecture. The CPU is featured with Intel's SMT (simultaneous
multi-threading) technology, which means that the 6 cores will be seen
as 12 threads, by the operating system.
In addition, the
processor is also featured with 12MB of L3 cache, up from the 8MB of L3
cache available on the older, Bloomfield Core i7 975 model. There's an
integrated memory controller, the addition of 7 new SSE4 instructions
and dual QPI, with up to 25.6G
The new processor is
also part of the outfit's Tick-Tock strategy, with the "Ticks”
representing the adoption of a new process technology, while the "Tocks”
being focused on providing a new microarchitecture. This one fits in
the "Tick” section, becoming Intel's first 32nm desktop CPU with 6 cores
and 12 threads. In addition, the new model will be compatible with
Intel's current high-end platform, X58, which was introduced back when
the first Bloomfield processors were announced. Based on the X58
chipset, motherboards featuring this platform should work just fine with
Gulftown, providing a BIOS update is applied.
Intel is yet to
formally announce the product, but we are expecting it to become
official within the next couple of hours, with a high chance for
enthusiasts to quickly get one for their own system. Price wise, we are
looking at a CPU that should be available for US$999, the same as the
Bloomfield Core i7 975. We should note that the Core i7 975 and the 980X
will also share the same power consumption specifications.
Source: Softpedia.com
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