Posted on 09/21/2010 7:46:26 AM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Chipmaker delivers a 100 MHz bump to almost all of its lineup, its third refresh of the year for some models
Today Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., the world's second largest microprocessor maker, unveiled six new CPUs to hold off Intel while it prepares its next-generation architecture.
First, let's get a quick primer on AMD's CPU brand strategy, which can be a bit confusing. AMD makes two major lines of CPUs -- a high end line dubbed Phenom II, and a budget lined dubbed Athlon II. Athlon IIs lack L3 cache and typically feature slightly lower clock speeds. Also, only Phenom II has a subfamily of hexa-core (6-core) CPUs, code-named "Thuban" -- Athlon II is only available in two-, three-, and four-core variants. Both processors are built on a 45 nm SOI with immersion lithography process.
The Athlon II lineup has seen 3 refreshes this year (January, May, and now September), which have bumped processor speeds on the various lines by 300 MHz. The Phenom II lineup has seen only two refreshes this year, though it also saw the launch of hexa-core models.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailytech.com ...
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AMD's Fall Refresh: New Phenom II and Athlon II CPUs Balance Price and Performance
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by Anand Lal Shimpi on 9/21/2010 2:52:00 AM
I don’t know the last time I was this excited about AMD’s roadmap. Zacate and Ontario are due out in a quarter, and both promise to bring competition to an area where we haven’t seen much from AMD.
Llano is slated for release near the end of Q2 next year. While it won’t be a big step forward in CPU performance, we should see a huge increase in integrated graphics performance.
Sampling in Q4 of this year and shipping sometime next year is AMD’s next-generation microarchitecture: Bulldozer.
Within the course of twelve months we will see AMD introduce three drastically different microprocessors into the market’s eager hands. We’ve been dying for more competition and AMD is planning on giving us just that. But that's the future, what about the present?
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Good Chart of the various models and specs at the Anandtech article linked above.
Benchmarks ...see linked article at post #3.
I’ll have to get me one of those 12-core “Magny-Cours” Opteron 6174 :-)
With 24-cores I think I’d stick with the stock heatsinks and take a pass on overclocking ;-)
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