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Core i9 ''Gulftown'' Comes to Life. Intel's posterboy processor for the 32 nm Westmere architecture, the six-core Gulftown is now living, breathing silicon. The company seems to have already dispatched samples of the chip. Gulftown is based on the LGA-1366 socket.
Nov 21, 2009 · At stock, I reckon they are about equal in performance in heavily multi-threaded apps, and the the i7 would walk all over it for gaming or any app that cannot utilize over 4 cores. If the i9 cannot get to over 3.5Ghz land, an i7 of whatever sort at over 4Ghz would still be a better pick, and cost a ton less. 1. 2.
Our friends from PClab.pl have managed to score a sample of Intel's upcoming Gulftown Core i9 processor. Intel's 32nm, 6-core beast was put through its paces on three motherboards and the PClab crew compared the results to Core i5, Core i7, Core 2 Quad and Phenom II parts.
Aug 3, 2009 · What's so special about Gulftown? Well, basically you have a 50% increase in cores, threads and cache. That means 6 cores per processor, or 12 threads, and 12MB of L3 cache. Not enough power?
Jul 6, 2009 · In what one could describe as to be expected, Intel has declared the Gulftown is slated to become the Core i9 series of processors when launched.
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Nov 26, 2009 · From MaximumPC: What’s believed to be the first product shots of the six-core part have been leaked to the web. Likely to be called Core i9, the pictures show off the new chips in a dual-socket motherboard that’s either an existing Xeon-based socket LGA1366 mobo or a next-gen Skulltrail platform.
Feb 25, 2011 · The Core i7-990X is a simply evolution of Intel’s six-core Gulftown design. It’s exactly the same architecturally—right down to family, model, stepping, and revision.
