The CORE Phenom Turbo II X6 is unveiled gradually. This feature, novelty, AMD, will raise the frequency of the processor cores when not all are active. The increase can be quite high but the technology is limited to three active cores. As well, the Turbo Core is disabled. By comparison, Intel limits the TurboBooster its Core i7 processors at 266 or 133 MHz, but not to a predefined number of cores.

Turbo will be available in five CORE Phenom II X6 X6 Phenom II 1090T, 3.2 GHz and 3.6 GHz, 1075T, 3 GHz and 3.5 GHz Turbo, the 1055T, 2.8 and 3.3 GHz and finally 1035T, 2.6 GHz and 3.1 GHz base maximum. Note that a Phenom X4 II, the 960T, also have this CORE Turbo, with a base frequency of 3 GHz and 3.4 GHz Turbo. This CPU Turbo mode for the simple reason that is based on the core Zosma a Thuban (6 cores) with two cores disabled.

For operation, the limit is obviously the TDP and the unit is fully automatic and requires no drivers. All motherboards are sitable AM3 and AM2 + some maps, with a priori update the BIOS. Note that unused cores are not disabled when using the Turbo CORE but the frequency of the latter decreases to 800 MHz only.
Have to wait for a concrete test of the technology, because even if AMD cannot beat a Core i7 980X, the Phenom II X6 could take place in the sun thanks to an attractive price.