AMD Phenom II X6 processors has six processor cores. They use a new frequency boosting technology called AMD Turbo CORE for high-end motherboards.


The AMD 890 FX chipset is to the AMD 890 GX chipset in the sense that it has been stripped of the integrated graphics (IGP) and has two full x16 PCI Express lanes for better performance for those that have multi-GPU CRossFire graphics configurations.

Both the 890GX and 890FX chipsets have the primary PCIe graphics card location as a x16 slot when one video card is used, but when two video cards are used the 890GX chipset reduces the number of lanes down to just eight on the slot.

The new AMD Phenom II X6 processors, AMD 8-series chipsets, and ATI Radeon HD 5800 series cards make up what is called the 'Leo' platform for power users.

It has six real 45nm cores of processing power that operate at 3.2GHz under full load. If the CPU finds itself in a condition where 3 or more cores are idle, the processor can use Turbo CORE technology to boost the active 3 cores to 3.6GHz improving performance on less heavily-threaded workloads.

Cache Sizes
L1 Cache: 128KB (64KB Instruction + 64KB Data) x6(six-core)

L2 Cache: 512KB x6(six-core)

L3 Cache: 6MB Shared L3

Process Technology: 45-nanometer technology
Memory: up to 21GB/sec dual channel
Types of Memory: DDR2-1066MHz and DDR3 -1333MHz)
Die Size: 45nm = 258mm2
Packaging: 938-pin Grid Array (micro-PGA)