AMD Shows Upcoming Phenom II CPU At 6.0 GHz+

Vigile writes "Today during a press briefing at AMD's offices in Austin, TX the company showed off some upcoming technology that should be available sometime early in 2009. What was most impressive was the overclocked speeds of the pending Phenom II X4 45nm processors. On air cooling AMD showed the quad-core CPU running at nearly 4.0 GHz while with much more extreme liquid nitrogen cooling help the same CPU reached over 6.0 GHz! It looks like AMD's newest processor might finally once again compete with the best from Intel, including its recent Core i7 CPUs."

Comments

Is GHz even important?

[fprintf]

I thought we learned over the past few years that gigahertz was no longer important. Can we switch to some other standard please? I am not sure FLOPS is any better, but Ghz clearly isn't it except to say 'ooooo, shiney, and faster than yours!'

Re:they'll beat intel on price, they always do

[Ant P.]

It might be 6cents/kWh for you, but it's £0.12/kWh here.