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Red Falcon
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Recently MaximumPC has stated that AMD is going to ditch the Athlon 64 moniker for its next-gen top end CPUs. (All credit for what I type here goes to MaximumPC; also, I didn't see another thread about this, so if there is another I appologize in advance)
I am going to point out some of the highlights of these new processors, which may infact be the Intel-Killer we've all been waiting for!
Phenom FX
- Quad-core only, with the largest caches and highest clocks of the consumer CPUs.
- Socket 1207 and AM2 (possibly AM2+)
Phenom X2 and X4
- Available in quad-core and dual-core versions with lower clock speeds and less cache than the FX parts.
-Socket AM2 (possibly AM2+)
Athlon X2
-Take existing Athlon 64 parts, whack off the 64, and you get Athlon X2.
-Socket AM2
Major Highlights of Phenom:
Phenom is essentially an evolutin of the Athlon 64 core with a better DDR2 memory controller, enhanced virtual-machine performance, better power management, and SSE performance improvements. The company claims that floating-point performance, for example, should be quadrupled over the Athlon 64. There's also a new L3 cache that's shared by all four cores. That's possible because of Phenom's design, which AMD touts as being "true quad core." While Intel constructs its Core 2 Quad chips by joining two dual-core processors that communicate via the relatively slow front-side bus (*cough* Pentium D *cough*), AMD designed a single contigous die that lets all the cores communicate at much higher speeds than Intel's 1,333MHz FSB. The Phenom will be based on the same 65nm process as the Athlon 64.
Major Highlights of Sockets AM2+ and 1207+:
Phenom parts will be pin compatible with the majority of AM2 and Socket 1207 motherboards on the market, but there's talk of an improved verion of the sockets called 1207+ and AM2+, which will feature the ability to run the CPU and north bridge at separate speeds to save power and enhance performance.
I am rooting for AMD to make a comeback, so hopefully this goes well. I know I'll be buying more than one!
Please discuss!
I am going to point out some of the highlights of these new processors, which may infact be the Intel-Killer we've all been waiting for!
Phenom FX
- Quad-core only, with the largest caches and highest clocks of the consumer CPUs.
- Socket 1207 and AM2 (possibly AM2+)
Phenom X2 and X4
- Available in quad-core and dual-core versions with lower clock speeds and less cache than the FX parts.
-Socket AM2 (possibly AM2+)
Athlon X2
-Take existing Athlon 64 parts, whack off the 64, and you get Athlon X2.
-Socket AM2
Major Highlights of Phenom:
Phenom is essentially an evolutin of the Athlon 64 core with a better DDR2 memory controller, enhanced virtual-machine performance, better power management, and SSE performance improvements. The company claims that floating-point performance, for example, should be quadrupled over the Athlon 64. There's also a new L3 cache that's shared by all four cores. That's possible because of Phenom's design, which AMD touts as being "true quad core." While Intel constructs its Core 2 Quad chips by joining two dual-core processors that communicate via the relatively slow front-side bus (*cough* Pentium D *cough*), AMD designed a single contigous die that lets all the cores communicate at much higher speeds than Intel's 1,333MHz FSB. The Phenom will be based on the same 65nm process as the Athlon 64.
Major Highlights of Sockets AM2+ and 1207+:
Phenom parts will be pin compatible with the majority of AM2 and Socket 1207 motherboards on the market, but there's talk of an improved verion of the sockets called 1207+ and AM2+, which will feature the ability to run the CPU and north bridge at separate speeds to save power and enhance performance.
I am rooting for AMD to make a comeback, so hopefully this goes well. I know I'll be buying more than one!
Please discuss!
