Today we have an interesting AMD rumour to bring your way. A little over a year ago, it was reported that AMD was set to launch a pair of Thuban-based four-core CPUs called the Phenom II X4 940T and Phenom II X4 960T. After nearly a year, no such processor has been seen in retail, but, today the folks over at MyDrivers.com have posted a plethora of photos showing off AMD’s mysterious Phenom II X4 960T processor and its secret ability.

The Phenom II X4 960T features a 3.0 GHz clock speed with 3.4 GHz Turbo Core and a total of 8MB of cache. However, things get interesting very quickly as some motherboards (the ASRock 890GX Extreme4, ASUS M5A88-V Evo and GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD3 in the published images) are able to unlock this four-core processor to one with six cores with even more cache! In Japan, the X4 960T is priced between the X4 955 and X965, but when unlocked, it should perform similarly to the X6 1075T.

Until we have official word from AMD, we’ll keep this filed under rumour, but the evidence in the shots below looks quite legitimate. Here’s to hoping we see this CPU in North America before AMD’s Bulldozer-based FX-series CPUs launch in late summer.

http://motherboardnews.com/2011/06/23/amd-quietly-launches-phenom-ii-x4-960t/#more-1283