Thread: Intel to debut 6-core gaming chip

Intel is probable to launch a 6-core processor designed through the most 3D-intensive games in the month.

The first hints of the chip running 3D-intensive games like Napoleon: Total War could occur at the 2010 Game Developer's Conference next week, according to resources. The official level of Intel's 6-core "Westmere" processors, though, is possible later this month.

The Core i7-980X is well-known mainly by being Intel's first 6-core "Extreme Edition" processor depend on the chipmaker's cutting-edge 32-nanometer process technology. Usually, the lesser the manufacturing process, the extra circuitry can be packed onto the chip, rising performance. Nearly everyone Intel processors still use "fatter" 45-nanometer technology.

Like other Core I series processors, it aspects Hyper-Threading, which can double the number of tasks--or threads--a processor can implement. So, a 6-core processor can arrange 12 threads. This technology is not open on prior-generation Core 2 chips.


Resellers--which have send beginning pricing--list the processor cost is around $1,000 and show it running at 3.33GHz and packing 12MB of included cache memory? With a probable price of around $1,000, game boxes using the chip will not be cheap.
PC manufacturers that normally offer high-end gaming boxes contain Falcon Northwest, Velocity Micro, and Dell's Alienware unit.