A couple of weeks after Intel unveiled the six-cored i7-880X Extreme Edition processor, a few leaks details specs for AMD’s upcoming hexa-cored consumer CPUs. Codenamed Thuban, the new chip is expected to be called the Phenom II X6, and will feature six cores on a 45nm die, 9MBs of total cache and will fit on motherboards with an AM3 socket. The specs (picked up from BIOS updates and CPU support lists released by Gigabyte) outline four X6 processor models that run from 2.6GHz and 2.8GHz, to a range-topping 3GHz. Expected to be named the Phenom II X6 1075T, the high-end model is still a bit short compared to Intel’s 3.33GHz Core i7, but we’re pretty sure this is going to be cheaper than Intel’s $999 i7-980X. Something to look forward to if you’re looking to build a six-core system on the (relatively) cheap.
Source: TechConnect
AMD has just released five new processors along their Phenom II and Athlon II lines, with a (pleasant) focus on more budget-friendly chips, highlighted by the Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition, touted as the fastest (or at least AMD’s fastest) dual-core processor with a 3.2GHz core frequency and a TDP (thermal design power) of only 80W—awesome on its own right, but the best part is it’s price: it’s listed to sell for only $99.
AMD announced that they’ll be showing off their upcoming Blu-ray stereoscopic 3D standard at next year’s Consumer Electronics Show. Expected to be released by the second half of 2010, the new standard will bring consumer 3D visuals to the living room.
AMD has officially unveiled the ATI Radeon HD 5970 graphics card, which currently sits on top of the company’s performance scale. The graphics card runs dual GPU chips for a total of 4.3 billion 40nm transistors and GDDR5 memory for the highest-end of high-end performance, and features 3200 stream processing units and 160 texture units, as well as support for DirectX 11 and OpenGL 3.2.
AMD’s graphics brand ATI has just come out with their most technologically advanced and feature-rich GPUs, the Radeon HD 5800 series. The company’s first set of graphics cards to fully support Windows 7’s DirectX 11, the HD 5800 series boasts twice the power over the previous generation of GPUs with up to 2.72 TeraFLOPS of processing power.
