AMD Confirms Six-Core 'Thuban' Consumer CPUs

[warmon6]

well with this cpu and the core i9 coming next year, it going to be a nice war between the 2. glad to see These 2 cpus coming around in the same time frame.

 

[leon2006]

Get a working DIE out and lets see the benchmark result. Until then this another marketing ploy from AMD that end up pure HOT-AIR...

The first Single-DIE Quad Core was a total failure...Here we go again...Promising 6 Core!!!

 

[cinergy]

"soon launch" -> "is set for release sometime next year" -> rrright...

 

[mlopinto2k1]

[citation][nom]chaohsiangchen[/nom]You can't have dual AM3 socket motherboard. AM3 socket is not built for multi-CPU. AM3 has no provision for CPU-to-CPU communication like Socket F has. I am not sure about how to use six cores. Maybe as X Window server for general home computing?[/citation]RENOISE 2.1 can utilize multiple cores. Also, now FL Studio 9.0 and many other applications can take advantage of having those cores. Why not have them?

 

[astrodudepsu]

Is it Thuban, Thubon, or Thurbon? Because all three are used in the article.


Well this isn't a surprise to most of us, good for AMD. I hope they sell these things.

 

[verrul]

remember that directx11 will be made to use whatever cores are available much more readily that is why amd is jumping up their core count to release this year or early next year with 6 core 2.6-3.4 ghz range to compete heavily with the I series in windows 7

 

[megamanx00]

Good. AMD needed to do something. With DX11 coming around, and the i7s getting more popular, I'm pretty sure we'll start seeing games that benefit from more than 4 available threads. Even so it will probably take at least 6 months before games are out that show a significant benefit with having 6 cores over 4. At least it will help AMD narrow the gap in some of the multithreaded media applications where the hyper threaded i7 blows it away.

 

[werfu]

AMD needs hyperthreading

 

[IronRyan21]

[citation][nom]godwhomismike[/nom]I have read that AMD plans on a 12-core Opteron CPU by Q2 2010. It's too bad that they couldn't leap frog over Intel and go for the throat by releasing desktop and server 12-core CPUs simultaneously. I am sure there would be a market for a $400 12-core 2.6 GHz CPU if AMD released it. Make an AMD AM3 Extreme motherboard which is basically a rebadged server motherboard with two AM3 sockets on it and 8 ram slots.24 cores, 16GB DDR3 ram, and two 5870x2 in crossfire - drool!!!But, I will gladly take a 3.0+ GHz six-core AMD Processor for $245. Maybe by Q2 2010, the prices for 4GB modules of DDR3 memory will have dropped significantly.[/citation]

IMO most consumers wont need a 12 core cpu. It would be a great server chip, but 12 cores for consumers? come on.

 

[wildwell]

I wonder how hot it gets?

 

[Pei-chen]

AMD is in deep shit. Everytime AMD hyped something, the end result is terrible.

K7 & Phenom II are great products and weren’t really hyped before release. Phenom I and Quad FX were hyped to be the best thing ever and DOA.

AMD is still following the old mantra of “the more the merrier”. Intel already moved on to performance per given watt regardless of core count/stock speed while AMD still thinks more cores and higher clock = better.

 

[bk420]

I hope this comes sooner than later. the 955 X4 is to dang slow and hogs too much power for it's performance. I don't care if it overclocks to 4 GHZ, it still under performs by a lot.
Hopefully the 6 core version will perform par to intels 32nm cores.

 

[hathost82]

AMD needs to hurry up with it's 32nm chips and new design. They are falling a bit behind since Intel has i9's in the works as well.

 

[descendency]

No one with the obligatory "But can it run Crysis?" yet?

 

[ElectroGoofy]

Hmm.... I wonder how the prices will compare to the i9?

 

[Gin Fushicho]

So is Microsoft and and the motherboard manufacturers gonna make it so we can fit all the bits through the bus for once?

 

[Gin Fushicho]

[citation][nom]descendency[/nom]No one with the obligatory "But can it run Crysis?" yet?[/citation]

But can it run Crysis Warhead? =p

 

[Major7up]

Software makers don't necessarily need to write multi-threaded apps (though it helps a lot) if the OS can take advantage of all the extra cores. Then it can run each instance of a program as a separate thread and run it through whichever core is available to run it.

 

[funnyman06]

Times like these i miss the days of my Barton 2500+, AMD on top and cheaper than Intel with less heat. Hope it works out good, then again, AMD has no need for 50 different processors out at any given time, i think they should think about consolidating back down to a handful of chips.

 

[rooseveltdon]

It looks cool bu will i run Crysis 3?

 

[Ehsan w]

can't wait for 24 cpu's 😀
maybe pair that with gtx 300's or Ati 6xxx series 😛
that's a long way....

 

[Guest]

LOL@the people saying AMD needs hyperthreading. -10% to 10% performance gains/losses, I don't miss it one bit. Maybe they should just release "emulated hyperthreading" to shut these people up. Maybe even have it show 4 cpus per core in Task Manager, imagine people swooning over Phenom III's "24 CPUs in task manager".

 

[NobleSnow]

128 cpu`s would be nice, 16 gpu`s and a small beer refrigerator to keep it all cool.

 

[falchard]

I would like to see a comparison of the Phenom II 965 against the Pentium IV. Only reason is to have a benchmark were the Phenom actually kicks ass.

 

[scurvywombat]

Nice to see some good, intelligent comments on the first page.