Gulftown

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.

Gulftown
General information
Launched1H 2010
Designed byIntel
CPUID code0206Cx
Product code80613, 80614
Performance
Max. CPU clock rate3.2 GHz to 3.46 GHz
Cache
L2 cache6 × 256 KB
L3 cache12 MB
Architecture and classification
ApplicationUP/DP Server, Workstation, Gaming
Technology node32 nm
MicroarchitectureWestmere
Instruction setx86, x86-64, MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSSE3, SSE4.1, SSE4.2, AES-NI
Physical specifications
Cores
  • 6 (physical), 12 (logical)
Package(s)
  • LGA-1366
Products, models, variants
Brand name(s)
  • Core i7-970, 980, 980X, 990X
  • Xeon 3600s, 5600s
History
Successor(s)Sandy Bridge-E
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