AMD beat Intel Core CPU with turbo competition

The Turbo Boost from Intel rival AMD is now taking Turbo Core. If some cores in multicore processors are not required, they are heruntergetaktet and is the cycle at the busy cores increases. The new AMD Phenom CPUs II X6 will be the first AMD processors that take advantage of turbo-Core.

The CPUs of computers are equipped with more and more CPU cores, but rarely are all the cores busy. Often, not all cores are required by the software or simply not used. In this case, it makes sense to let the actual working cores run faster, and unnecessary slow. This is called dynamic overclocking.

Often it would be better, of course, the programmers of the software would take advantage of the multi-core CPUs, but the software development lags advances in chip production after quite a while.

Intel has been the market leader for more than a year his Turbo Boost, AMD, however, had this been counter not match. Turbo Core is not as sophisticated as Turbo Boost, but it is AMD, the hurdle for the use of turbo-core low. There are no new motherboard, no new drivers, no extra software, such as AMD Overdrive required.

According to AMD will support all Socket AM3 motherboards Turbo Core, when a BIOS update was made. Not surprisingly, therefore, that used Turbo Core AMD not already in its recently announced Magny-Cours CPUs for servers. When first using the new hexa-core processors, the Phenom series II X6 (code name: Thuban) Turbo Core. The Phenom CPUs, AMD will launch X6 II during the current quarter.