The Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor is based on a completely new micro architecture and offers enormous performance and higher efficiency compared with the Intel® Pentium® 4 and Intel® Pentium® D generations. A new and efficient architecture providing more performance per clock rate, 4 MB Cache, faster processing of SSE commands and intelligent power saving functions offer performance with surprisingly low power consumption. The flagship is the Intel® Core™2 Extreme processor X6800 with nearly 3 GHz clock rate providing previously not reached performance levels in the Desktop PC segment.