How much does Barcelona 3 gigans consume?

Of course, this is the future processor for Advanced Micro Devices, which will include four physical cores.

According to AMD, a quad-core Barcelona 3 GHz clock will be capable of a 120-watt TDP. This in itself may seem like a bit of a lot, especially if you want to remove this huge amount of heat from the central unit using a quiet air cooler, but a similar solution from Intel will also consume around this.

The processor itself will only be available next year, but it is already a headache for AMD that Intel is moving to 45nm manufacturing technology, which could even easily go up to 3,33 GHz even with quad-core processors.