Gulftown
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Gulftown or Westmere-E is the codename of an up to six-core hyperthreaded Intel processor able to run up to 12 threads in parallel. It is based on Westmere microarchitecture, the 32 nm shrink of Nehalem. Originally rumored to be called the Intel Core i9, it is sold as an Intel Core i7. The first release was the Core i7 980X in the first quarter of 2010, along with its server counterpart, the Xeon 3600 and the dual-socket Xeon 5600 (Westmere-EP) series using identical chips.
Key facts
- CPU.name
- Gulftown
- CPU.produced start
- 1H 2010
- CPU.slowest
- 3.2
- CPU.fastest
- 3.46
- CPU.size from
- 32 nm
- CPU.designfirm
- Intel
- CPU.pack1
- LGA-1366
- CPU.arch
- x86, x86-64, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AES-NI
- CPU.microarch
- Westmere
- CPU.numcores
- 6 (physical), 12 (logical)
- CPU.brand1
- Core i7-970, 980, 980X, 990X
- CPU.brand2
- Xeon 3600s, 5600s
- CPU.l2cache
- 6 × 256 KB
- CPU.l3cache
- 12 MB
- CPU.cpuid
- 0206Cx
- CPU.code
- 80613, 80614
- CPU.application
- UP/DP Server, Workstation, Gaming
- CPU.successor
- Sandy Bridge-E
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Gulftown or Westmere-E is the codename of an up to six-core hyperthreaded Intel processor able to run up to 12 threads in parallel. It is based on Westmere microarchitecture, the 32 nm shrink of Nehalem. Originally rumored to be called the Intel Core i9, it is sold as an Intel Core i7. The first release was the Core i7 980X in the first quarter of 2010, along with its server counterpart, the Xeon 3600 and the dual-socket Xeon 5600 (Westmere-EP) series using identical chips.
==Processor== First figures indicate that at equivalent clock rates, depending on the software, it has up to 50% higher performance than the identically clocked quad-core Bloomfield Core i7-975. Despite having 50% more transistors, the CPU strongly benefits from the 32-nm process, drawing the same or even less power (depending on the operating system) than its Bloomfield predecessors with merely four cores. The thermal design power (TDP) of all planned models is stated to be 130 watts.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gulftown” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.