Bulldozers also have second-generation dynamic acceleration technology

Intel's "Turbo Boost" Turbo Boost technology will be upgraded to the second generation in the Sandy Bridge family. AMD is not to be outdone. "Turbo Core" will be fully popularized in the new bulldozer architecture, and it has also been enhanced.

John Fruehe, director of product marketing for AMD's server and workstation products, said: "The bulldozer will support the Turbo Core feature, and it will be an improvement over Thuban (Phenom II X6), and there will be some enhancements to make it more powerful. This is server processing. For the first time, the Turbo Core technology was introduced. We expect this to bring significant performance improvements when using single-threaded programs, as well as to help with large workloads."

For the first time, the AMD Phenom II X6 series six-core processor brings the dynamic acceleration technology Turbo Core, which can turn off some cores in thread-insensitive applications and increase the voltage and frequency of the remaining cores within the allowable power consumption. Because of architectural design issues, it is far less flexible than the Intel Turbo Boost. The bulldozer architecture has not only focused on performance, but has also made drastic changes to power management. It is believed that dynamic acceleration will also be more flexible.