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Dec072009

Mac Pro to Get 6-Core Xeon Gulftown Processor in 2010?

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AuthorNick Mahar DateDec 7, 2009 , ,

 

PCLab prematurely leaked performance numbers on Intel's upcoming Xeon Gulftown (Core i9). Some specs include the CPU being 50% faster. According to their sources, Apple is planing on using the Gulftown processor in a future Mac Pro due out early 2010. If mixed liked a dual-processor configuration, the Mac Pro would have 12 physical and 24 logical cores. 

This has been suspected for a while now because of the new iMac. Benchmarks have shown that the performance of these high end iMacs rival that of the entry level Mac Pros that cost considerably more. Including the Gulftown would reestablish a larger performance gap between the consumer and professional desktop computers for Apple.

-NM

AuthorNick Mahar DateDec 7, 2009 , ,

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