News - AMD sheds light on Turbo CORE technology

[HEXUS]

Intel-like Turbo Boost functionality coming soon to hexa-core Phenom II X6 parts.

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[kalniel]

Can Hexus clarify a point?

The middle slide seems to indicate the boost applies to 3 cores, ie it's a simple 3 down and 3 up arrangement. The final slide seems to indicate it can boost less than this (3 or more cores idle, remaining full load cores boosted), leading to 4 down 2 up, or 5 down and 1 up scenarios.

Which is it?

[Parm]

Honest answer, we don't know and we can't check until we get our hands on the processors.

But we did put the question to AMD, and here's the official answer:

in case of a 6-core CPU we are boosting ‘up to three’ cores

The statement seems to indicate that 3 down 3 up, 4 down 2 up, and 5 down 1 up scenarios will all be possible.

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Supposedly there is some change to the 45NM process technology used to manufacture the Phenom II X6 which will reduce leakage:

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/18731