The processors Sandy Bridge-E LGA 2011 include eight physical cores. The current range of Core i7-3xxx models has only processors with six cores, but the eight-core versions will certainly appear in the server segment in the next year.
Today appeared a photo of the engineering model Xeon processors LGA 2011, equipped with eight physical cores with support for Hyper-Threading.
The default processor frequency is 3.11 GHz benchmark Cinebench R11.5 showed the following results:
In couple with the GeForce GTX 580 graphics card and in the physical test 3DMark'11 the system collecd more than 14 thousand points.
Using the basic frequency multiplier 1.25x, the author of xperiment were able to overclock the processor to 4.8 GHz with air cooling. It is expected that the serial processor Xeon with these characteristics will be released in March for about $ 1,900.