I'll stick with four cores and higher clocks for now, but if your a multitasking nut this has got to be good news.
Honestly, It feels like AMD has not had anything new on the CPU side for a while now, whats already there has to be so appealing to people at the prices offered, its hard to know exactly where to go without another process shrink. I think 2010 is going to be a little slow on the CPU end, 2011 is when the mind blowing things are going to happen. Even then, we have had this discussion, can CPU's do anything much beyond what they have to feel sexy anymore?
i was wondering, bit of out topic, how much faster is a dual core 2ghz vs a same architecture cpu which is running at 4ghz? i mean side by side in threaded apps. its hard to get these kind of benchmarks.
Looks like I was thinking faster then I was typing......(somedays I should triple read what I'm writing before posting)
I was intending to say that, I wouldn't be surprised if the release date is being pushed back to match the rumored April release date for the next Chipsets
i was wondering, bit of out topic, how much faster is a dual core 2ghz vs a same architecture cpu which is running at 4ghz? i mean side by side in threaded apps. its hard to get these kind of benchmarks.
In other words: The same processor at 2GHz, then 4GHz?
It's Dragon in Arabic or large serpent. I think they are going for the Dragon or the star. Although, I thought AMD named its cpu's after race tracks. Is there a Thuban speedway somewhere?
As it says in the article we wrote months ago that was linked in the first paragraph of this news:
Thuban is another name for Alpha Draconis, a star in the constellation of Draco. It served as the northern pole star for more than 2000 years between 3942 and 1900 BC. While Polaris in the constellation Ursa Minor is today’s northern pole star, Thuban will once again take that mantle in 20346 AD when the earth’s processional movements places the star back to our celestial north.
The Thuban codename makes particular sense when viewed in the context of other Phenom products, collectively known as the stars family. Deneb (Phenom II X4) is a star in the constellation Cygnus, Heka (Phenom II X3) is a star in the constellation Orion, and Regor (Athlon II X2) is a star in the constellation Vela.
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There's no rumor about it: http://tech.icrontic.com/articles/amd-in-2010-part-1-new-platforms/
Honestly, It feels like AMD has not had anything new on the CPU side for a while now, whats already there has to be so appealing to people at the prices offered, its hard to know exactly where to go without another process shrink. I think 2010 is going to be a little slow on the CPU end, 2011 is when the mind blowing things are going to happen. Even then, we have had this discussion, can CPU's do anything much beyond what they have to feel sexy anymore?
2010, the year the GPU begin's to take over?
Looks like I was thinking faster then I was typing......(somedays I should triple read what I'm writing before posting)
I was intending to say that, I wouldn't be surprised if the release date is being pushed back to match the rumored April release date for the next Chipsets
In other words: The same processor at 2GHz, then 4GHz?
Thuban is named after the star.
Codenamed "Thuban" (named after a star in the Draco constellation, which means Dragon).
Thuban is another name for Alpha Draconis, a star in the constellation of Draco. It served as the northern pole star for more than 2000 years between 3942 and 1900 BC. While Polaris in the constellation Ursa Minor is today’s northern pole star, Thuban will once again take that mantle in 20346 AD when the earth’s processional movements places the star back to our celestial north.
The Thuban codename makes particular sense when viewed in the context of other Phenom products, collectively known as the stars family. Deneb (Phenom II X4) is a star in the constellation Cygnus, Heka (Phenom II X3) is a star in the constellation Orion, and Regor (Athlon II X2) is a star in the constellation Vela.