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Date added: 10/26/2011 eWeek - Intel Launches i7-2700K Chip, Challenges AMD's Bulldozer Processors

Intel reportedly has launched its high-end Core i7-2700K desktop processor, a fast quad-core chip that comes less than two weeks after rival Advanced Micro Devices rolled out its family of FX processors, based on the company’s new Bulldozer architecture.

Intel’s i7-2700K is the giant chip maker’s fastest chip based on its own Sandy Bridge architecture, which began appearing in Intel processors in January. The chip clocks in at 3.5GHz—which can climb to 3.9GHz, when leveraging Intel’s Turbo Boost technology—and is meant to challenge AMD’s most powerful FX chips.

Except for the power upgrade, the i7-2700K is about the same as the current i7-2600K, which had a frequency of 3.4GHz. The chip can execute up to eight threads at the same time, and offers an 8MB L3 cache and a thermal design power (TDP) of 95 watts. Like all Sandy Bridge chips, it also includes integrated high-level graphics, in this case Intel’s HD 3000 graphics.

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