AMD Phenom II X6 | Turbo CORE 101

[ajaidev]

What is unfair exactly? It will run at higher freq if a power/temperature conditions will allove it. Otherwise 3.33GHz always guaranteed (throttling excluded).


Everyone can overclock every x86 cpu. What is the point?

Its marked as 3.33Ghz stock speed, yes but with turbo this speed is never kept is it its always around 3.46Ghz. In essence stock speed is never really used for anything is it?

The point is that when turbo overclock all cores its not fair, turbo should overclock when the core count is less than total cores like the 3.6ghz for 2 cores is acceptable.

Not quite sure what you are saying here, but 980x is advertised as 3.33Ghz when it runs 3.46Ghz stock with Turbo enabled.

Yes thats exactly what i am trying to say it never really suns at 3.33Ghz and is advertised as a 3.33Ghz cpu.

Among all the ES's i had time to spent i9 aka i7 980x was one of the best but at the same time the i had a horrible time with Lynnfield cpu's and it was all because of Intel's turbo implementation. I dont want to go in detail but the fact is Turbo soon will not hold as much importance that it does today.

Last time i checked stock frequenzy of the 980x was 3.33ghz and with turbo 3.46 on all cores and 3,60 for singel (dual?) core load. And intel didn't sold it as 3,46ghz.

See the above responses and to add to it how do you predict Turbo i mean how do you know when it should start/stop/etc. Intel has taken a very grainy road on this and i dont like it one bit.

The Turbo speed can flex "specially in all cores mode" when ever the cpu wants it to based on the environment. This gives one benefit that is when the environment has not warmed enough or is still in the process the speed of the cpu will work at 3.46Ghz but once the environment is hot enough the speed drops to stock.

Also the power consumed and TDP change with stock freq. on all cores and the turbo freq. on all cores take out a wall meter and check for yourself.