Intel Quad Core QX6700

Intel officially has announced the first quad core processor, Core 2 Duo Extreme Edition QX6700 and will be released in this November. This Extreme Edition will be followed by the mainstream version sometimes around Jan 2007.

QX6700 will be released just 60 days after Core 2 Duo, sooner than planned, first quarter of 2007, and they are ahead 6 months earlier than AMD quad core.

No surprise, actually, of why QX6700 can be made this fast. Basically, QX6700 is only the combination of two Core 2 Duo packed in one processor. They use the same approach as the release of Pentium D (two Pentium 4 core packed into one processor). As a comparison, quad core from AMD will based on 4 cores that stands alone.

The Frequency of QX6700 is only 2,66 GHz, but it can raise the speed until 70%, compares with Core 2 Extreme X6800 (2,93 GHz). Still, the better speed only work with application that support the multithread, like Adobe Premiere, 3DSMax or Windows MEdia Encoder. Still, it’s not impossible for another application like games will take advantage from this 4 cores scheme.