A Sneak Peek at Intel’s Core i9 Gulftown
Intel is preparing for launch of the 32nm six-core processor codenamed Gulftown in 1H 2010 according to Fudzilla, and the enthusiast JC has managed to grab the sample of Core i9 Gulftown.
With support for Socket LGA1366, Gulftown is based on 32nm technology, operating at 2.4GHz (18*133MHz), with 12MB of L3 cache.
Compatible with the X58 chipset, Gulftown is really something to look forward to.
July 31st, 2009 at 9:07 pm
why does it show 24 cores?
July 31st, 2009 at 9:13 pm
coz there are 2 gulftowns in the board…
July 31st, 2009 at 10:11 pm
Why does cpu-z say it’s an i7 ?
August 1st, 2009 at 12:13 am
It shows 24 cores because there are 2 CPU’s in the motherboard. More importantly there are actually 12 cores. The other 12 are only Hyperthreads so you can ignore them.
August 1st, 2009 at 4:09 am
damn. wish i hadn’t bought that i7 and should’ve waited for this baby.
August 1st, 2009 at 8:01 am
Don’t worry CJ, the i9 should be compatible with your motherboard, with a minor bios update.
August 1st, 2009 at 8:04 am
Losadepro, it prolly says i7 cuz CpuZ capable of showing processors that aren’t even out yet. It can do math equations to figure out how many cores and things of that nature, but I guess they guys at CpuZ will be updating their software soon enough to fix that problem.
August 1st, 2009 at 8:06 am
************Isn’t capable that is *************
August 2nd, 2009 at 1:22 am
So whats the motherboard brand / id / name that can support two babies ?
August 2nd, 2009 at 4:48 am
Stop crying about your i7, just stop ok
August 2nd, 2009 at 7:39 am
Thats a really weird system what the god damn motherboard name and chipset used ? is it the i9 skulltrail ? and its weird showing 4gb of ram which is supposed to be tri channeled.
August 2nd, 2009 at 8:12 am
@ Stephen
You guys don’t have maths?
Task Manager says approx %9 of ram of 2.21
%€9 2.21(GB)
X(GB) %100
—————–
X=24GB
Plus if you look at under Physical Memory(MB) Total: 24558.
There is 6 slots and each one uses 4GB means 24GB.
August 2nd, 2009 at 8:14 am
€ typo only
August 2nd, 2009 at 2:55 pm
Word association:
CPU codename .. Official brand
====================================
Clovertown .. called Xeon 5300′s in legacy LGA771
Harpertown .. called Xeon 5400′s in legacy LGA771
Gainestown .. called Xeon 5500′s moved to LGA1366
Gulftown …. what could it be, since there are two CPUs in that board, and it isn’t clocked that much higher than the recently released AMD Istanbuls they are supposed to compete with?
1st clue, it isn’t natively a “Core”. For those who still don’t get it, Intel’s Xeon 5000 line are their 2-way server market and so far the past three were all codenamed “-town”. Most recently, Nehalem Gainestown Xeon 5500s fit into dual-socket LGA1366 boards, but also can work in some single-socket X58′s.
As such, Intel could just rebrand another Xeon as a Core like last time (with SKulltrail, they took a 45nm Xeon X5482 and called it Core 2 Extreme QX9775; their C0-stepping specs were identical).
August 2nd, 2009 at 5:06 pm
Maybe they’re using 1.3 GB sticks
August 2nd, 2009 at 9:39 pm
Ok, the thing that worries me is the 48673 MB pagefile. Unless you’re using a fast SSD on a separate disk/partition, I can already see that huge pagefile slowing down the beast(seeing that it uses 16+ GB of pagefile is giving me shivers)…
Talking about the CPU, it’s funny that Intel plays on the conservative side this time and still goes with 256 KB L2 Cache and only 12 MB L3, despite the 32nm shrinked package. I bet the price will go stellar too, even though it costs them less to build it.
@Erol – I’m almost certain that the mobo has more than 6 RAM slots (6/CPU on an E-ATX factor would be my guess).
August 4th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
Impressive, 12 cores + 12 HT cores + 24GB of RAM, and STILL Vista wont enable Aero…
August 5th, 2009 at 8:48 am
maybe they turned it off =]
August 24th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
Hummm. Impressive ! i want a baby like that…
I just stop my run to buy a i7 until know better how much will cost this i9 babies… I willing to wait a little bit months more until the official launch…
Look at my last search of prices:
Core i7 965 Extreme Edition
Clock Speed: 3.2 GHz
QuickPath Interface speed: 6.4 GT/s (gigatransfers per second)
Multiplier Lock: No
Prices : $999
Core i7 940
Clock Speed: 2.93 GHz
QuickPath Interface speed: 4.8 GT/s (gigatransfers per second)
Multiplier Lock: Yes
Prices : $562
Core i7 920
Clock Speed: 2.66 GHz
QuickPath Interface speed: 4.8 GT/s (gigatransfers per second)
Multiplier Lock: Yes
Prices : $284
If there are someone that jhave a price idea, including some information of MOBO prices to comport two babies like shown above, please post here…
August 25th, 2009 at 4:23 am
This thing will cost no less than 1300$; as for the motherboard any normal i7 one will do the job after a bios update
August 25th, 2009 at 9:02 pm
This i9 will also require you install an air conditioner in the side of your case if you live anywhere that is hot. I will wait for 16nm before even considering this many cores.
September 1st, 2009 at 8:39 am
16nm? you’ll be waiting till at LEAST the end of 2012 before you see that. the next step is 32, the step after that is 22 and they haven’t talked about anything past that yet
September 1st, 2009 at 8:43 am
there are so many applications that don’t utilise quad-core yet, like 85% of them, i can’t imagine a use for 6 for a while to come other than server and lab computers.
September 1st, 2009 at 8:25 pm
Man you could run Boinc on this thing and do a ton of other things to and still not bog the machine down!! I would like to see more than the new standard of 256mb L2 cache though!!
September 7th, 2009 at 5:08 pm
It’s surprising how so many assumptions have been based off of this screen shot. I honestly don’t believe that the Core i9 will be limited to a core speed of 2.4GHz and a speed of 1066MHz for the DDR3 memory controller (Especially if there is going to be an Extreme Edition model). Intel’s X58 Express chipset specifies a “reference” clock speed of 800 – 1066MHz, that doesn’t necessarily mean it has to operate at that frequency. It’s going to be interesting enough to see how much Windows 7 will benefit from 12 threads. Also, this CPU would be perfect for VMware. Anyways, I’m astonished to see that no one has asked “but can it run Crysis?”. lol
September 11th, 2009 at 6:08 am
But can it run Crysis? =)
Yes it can! Just like the wonderful Core i7. Specially because Crysis uses the GPU above all.
Core i9 will be totally awesome for BOINC. In just 4 months I got from place ~450,000 to place 18,000 in World Community Grid using a 920 at 3.54 GHz (3.725 with Turbo Boost).
Have a nice day!
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