List of multi-core processors
The following list of multi-core processors includes a selection of the well-known multi-core processors in the world. The list is divided into sub-lists according to the number of processor cores.
Dual-core processors
The following dual core processors are currently being manufactured or planned:
AMD :
- AMD Athlon 64 FX : available since January 2006
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 : available since spring 2005
- AMD Athlon X2 : available since June 2007
- AMD Opteron : available since April 2005
- AMD Turion 64 X2 : available since May 2006
- AMD Athlon II : available since June 2009
- AMD Phenom II X2 : available since June 2009
- AMD A4 & partly A6 APUs : available since Q3 2011 (Llano) and Q3 2012 (Trinity)
ARM :
- Different implementations of the ARM architecture
- PA-RISC PA-8800
- PA-8900: since 2005
IBM :
- IBM Power 4: available since 2001
- IBM Power 4+: available since 2002
- IBM Power 5: available since November 2004
- IBM Power 5+: available since October 2005
- IBM PowerPC 970MP : introduced June 6, 2005
Intel :
- Intel Core Duo : available since January 2006
- Intel Core 2 Duo: available since July 2006
- Intel Core 2 Extreme: available since July 2006
- Intel Core i series : available since November 2008
- Intel Pentium D : available since spring 2005
- Intel Pentium Dual-Core : available since June 2007
- Intel Pentium Extreme Edition : available since spring 2005
- Intel Xeon DP : available since October 2005
- Intel Itanium 2 : available since 2006
- Sun UltraSPARC IV : available since February 2004
- Sun UltraSPARC IV + : available since September 2005
Other:
- Fujitsu SPARC64 VI : available since April 2007
- VIA Nano : since 2009
Tri-core processors
The following three-core processors are currently being manufactured or planned:
AMD :
- AMD Phenom X3 : available since April 2008
- AMD Phenom II X3 : available since February 2009
- AMD Athlon II X3 : available since October 2009
IBM :
Quad-core processors (quad-core)
The following quad-core processors are currently being manufactured or planned:
AMD :
- AMD Opteron (K10) : available since September 2007
- AMD Phenom X4 : available since November 2007
- AMD Phenom II X4 : available since January 2009
- AMD Athlon II X4 : available since 2009
- AMD A6 : available since Q3 2011
- AMD A8 : available since Q3 2011
- AMD A10 : available since Q4 2012
- AMD FX-4XXX : available since Q4 2011
- AMD Ryzen 1200 : available since July 2017
- AMD Ryzen 1300X : available since July 2017
- AMD Ryzen 1400 : available since April 2017
- AMD Ryzen 1500X : available since April 2017
IBM :
Intel :
- Intel Core 2 Extreme : available since November 2006
- Intel Core 2 Quad : available since early 2007
- Intel Xeon : available since late 2006
- Intel Core i7 : available since November 2008
- Intel Core i5 : available since November 2008
- Sun UltraSPARC T1 : available since December 2005
ARM :
- Nvidia Tegra 3 (Kal-El) ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore: November 2011
Other:
- Fujitsu SPARC64 VII : available since July 2008
Six-core processors (Hexa-Core)
The following six-core processors are currently being manufactured or planned:
- Xeon "Dunnington" : available since September 2008
- i-Series “Gulftown” : available since March 2010
- Opteron "Istanbul" : available since June 2009
- Phenom II "Thuban" : available since April 2010
- AMD FX-6XXX : available since Q4 2011
- Xperia X Compact: available since 2016
- AMD Ryzen 1600 : available since April 2017
- AMD Ryzen 1600X : available since April 2017
- AMD Ryzen 5 2600 : Available since August 2018
- AMD Ryzen 5 2600X : Available since August 2018
- AMD Ryzen 5 3600 : Available since July 2019
- AMD Ryzen 5 3600X : Available since July 2019
Eight-core processors (octa-core)
- AMD FX 8xxx series
- AMD Jaguar as octa-core in Sony's PlayStation 4 and Microsoft's Xbox One
- AMD Ryzen 1700 : available since Q1 2017
- AMD Ryzen 1700X : available since Q1 2017
- AMD Ryzen 1800X : available since Q1 2017
- AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1900X : available since August 2017
- AMD Ryzen 7 2700 : available since April 2018
- AMD Ryzen 7 2700X : available since April 2018
- AMD Ryzen 7 3700 : available since July 2019
- AMD Ryzen 7 3700X : available since July 2019
Other
- IBM Power 7: 64-bit processor with up to eight cores with four threads each - available since the beginning of 2010
- Intel Xeon 6500/7500 ( Nehalem-EX ): four, six or eight cores - available since early 2010
- Sun UltraSPARC T1 ( Niagara ): four, six or eight UltraSPARC cores with four threads each - available since December 2005
- Sun UltraSPARC T2 ( Niagara 2 ): eight UltraSPARC cores for eight parallel threads each - available since October 2007
- Sun UltraSPARC T2 +: SMP -capable version of the UltraSPARC T2, can connect its eight UltraSPARC cores with those of other processors - available since April 2008
- Fujitsu SPARC64 VIII : 8-core processor (2009)
- Samsung Electronics : Exynos 5 octa-core processor with two quad-core processors for tablet PCs and smartphones
Multi-core processors with more than eight processor cores
The following multi-core processors with more than eight cores are currently being manufactured or planned:
- IBM / Sony / Toshiba Cell : 64-bit PowerPC core with eight specified Synergistic Processor Elements (SPEs) - available in Sony's PlayStation 3 (version with only seven SPEs) since November 2006
- Intel Xeon E7 ( Westmere-EX ): four, six, eight or ten cores, in two, four or eight socket versions - available since mid-2011
- Intel Xeon E5v3 46 ** 10 to 18 cores 20 to 36 threads 2015 q2 based on the Haswell architecture
- Intel Core i7 6950X with 10 cores and 20 threads
- AMD Magny-Cours : 8 (Octa-Core) or 12 (Dodeca-Core) cores - available since January 2010
- AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1920X : with 12 cores and 24 threads, available since August 2017
- AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X : with 16 cores and 32 threads, available since August 2017
- AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2920X : with 12 cores and 24 threads, available since October 2018
- AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2950X : with 16 cores and 32 threads, available since the end of August 2018
- AMD Ryzen 9 3900X : with 12 cores and 24 threads, available since October 2019
- AMD Ryzen 9 3950X : with 16 cores and 32 threads, available since October 2019
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b golem.de Revolver duel from March: AMD and Intel with 6-core CPUs
- ↑ golem.de Intel's 6-core Gulftown has 1.17 billion transistors
- ↑ golem.de test: Core i7 980X - six cores, but rarely faster
- ↑ golem.de Phenom II X6: AMD shows “Thuban” in operation for the first time
- ↑ heise.de Liberation: AMD's new six-core processor
- ↑ blogs.amd.com “Magny-Cours” is Right on Schedule, and Shipping to Customers
- ↑ golem.de Opteron 6100: First x86 processor with twelve cores starts