AMD Phenom II X6 Turbo speeds revealed

Posted on Tuesday, March 23 2010 @ 16:42 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

The Tech Report spotted the Turbo mode clockspeeds of two of AMD's upcoming six-core processors at the website of a Norwegian e-tailer:

We now see Norwegian online retailer Microplex has put up listings for the same two six-core processors—the Phenom II X6 1055T and Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition—and both specifications and pricing appear to check out.

The Norwegian e-tailer does mention one additional detail. Rather than quoting a single clock speed per CPU, these latest listings display additional "Turbo" speeds of 3.3GHz (up from 2.8GHz) for the 1055T and 3.6GHz (up from 3.2GHz) for the 1090T. We can probably take that as confirmation of last month's rumors, which said AMD had implemented a core "overclocking" scheme similar to Intel's Turbo Boost.

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