Official AMD Phenom II X6 6-Core CPU Prices revealed

Bahrain based etailer, Advanti has revealed that they have received official prices on the upcoming six core processors from AMD. Here’s what they had to say on their facebook page

We just received the official prices from AMD:
Phenom II X6 Six Core
1090T Black Edition: 125(W), AM3 Socket, 9MB Cache, 3.2 GHz Freq @ 295 USD
1055T: 125(W), AM3 Socket, 9MB Cache, 2.8 GHz Freq @ 199 USD

What’s interesting to note is that the TDP on these new 6 core behemoths is the same as current quad core Phenom II X4 955 and 965 C3 models. From the looks of it, AMD has optimized it’s 45nm SOI (Silicon on Insulator) process for low power usage to fit six cores in 125W thermal envelope and run them at 3.2 GHz which is the same clockspeed as the Phenom II X4 955. We could be in for some mouth watering half a dozen rocking overclocking treat like last year when the Phenom II X4s were put under the LN2.

Featured below is what looks to be the die shot of the ‘Thuban’ core used in these upcoming six core CPUs.

http://www.techpowerup.com/gallery/2442.html Super XP

AMD may not be able to fully compete on raw CPU performance through various benchmarking utilities. But when it comes to real world gaming performance, current AMD CPU’s are a mix of equal or slightly less performance vs. Intel’s offerings and still offer phenomenal price/performance. Games such as Left 4 Dead 1 & 2 offer better performance in multi-core CPU’s so 6-core CPU’s are going to benefit.

Love the new hardware, but the software needs to catch up and fast.

125W for a 6-Core CPU, not bad at all. AMD’s done there homework especially at 3.20 GHz.
What I look forward to is for the upcoming AMD Phemom II X4 975 @ 3.60 GHz Black Edition’s price/performance. This one along with the upcoming X6’s should hopefully be enough to keep up with Intel’s current price/performance offerings just until AMD Bulldozer’s the competition in 2011. lol

Phenom II x6 RoadMaps:
http://www.techpowerup.com/117285/AMD_Phenom_II_X6_Thuban_and_Phenom_II_X4_Zosma_Tabled_on_Roadmaps.html
YouAreDealingWithDickinson!

“Love the new hardware, but the software needs to catch up and fast.”
Here, here, this is starting to get a little silly.

The Thubans look reasonable and should beat out the core i7 930/940 but for someone like me with a phenom 2 X4, they make little sense so i’ll be waiting for bulldozer of possibly “sandy bridge”. In all honesty though AMD need to stop dicking around with K10.5 and release bulldozer with quad channel memory ASAP.
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@YouAreDealingWithDickinson!:
It isn’t possible to release something before it’s ready and in production.

Buldozer is something completely new, and it takes a lot of thinking from bright people to come up with something like it.
308Cowboy

If they really do come out with a 6 core Phenom II, and it really is only 200$ for 2.8 (which will be plenty since phenoms oc very well) then they will smoke i7′s hands down, and they will be a fifth the price.
Dick

It is a real pity that AMD did not catch on with the mainstream crowd. Their processors are actually better than the Intel ones but they are just not marketed all that well. They get too technical about it and nobody understands the benefits.
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Coleman Clopp

Very interesting subject, thank you for putting it up.
tonett

I’m always a big fan of AMD technology, I heard about this 6 core. But I think this will be a blast to everyone who love AMD technology like myself

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