AMD Phenom II X6 Thuban frequencies revealed

The details surrounding AMD’s Phenom II X6 processors are starting to come together. Thanks to an update from Gigabyte we now have the complete specifications for the first four hexa-core of AMD’s Thuban family. We reported on the TDPs of the various models a while back, 125W for all but the slowest, 95W, of the new hexa-core models, but not until now we have had the frequencies confirmed.

The clock frequencies span from 2.6GHz to 3.0GHz, which is actually lower than Intel’s first six-core processor, Core i7 980X operating at 3.33GHz. AMD still uses the less efficient 45 nm node, while Intel draws its power from the 32 nm well.

• AMD Phenom II X6 1035T – 2,60GHz @ 95W
• AMD Phenom II X6 1055T – 2,80GHz @ 95W

On the old roadmap we also had the following models, and the estimated frequencies:

• AMD Phenom II X6 1055T – 2,80GHz? @ 125W
• AMD Phenom II X6 1075T – 3,00GHz ?@ 125W

On the other hand AMD will be asking a lot less money for its models, but we still hope that the dynamic overclocking function will improve performance in single-threaded environments. Gigabyte did not reveal the levels of auto-overclocking we will be seeing.