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PC Building: Intel’s Turbo Boost vs AMD’s Turbo Core

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 5, 2010

“AMD recently implemented its technology, Turbo Core, on its
Phenom II X6 processors. Turbo Core is in many ways a less elegant
solution than Intel’s. This is most likely due to the fact that
while Turbo Boost is ingrained in the design of the Nehalem
architecture upon which Core i5 and i7 CPUs are based. On the other
hand Turbo Core has been added to the K10 architecture that has
underpinned AMD’s processors for some time now.”


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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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