Socket M2 renamed to Socket AM2....(rumour?)

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So says the Inquirer ...

New Socket AM2 is being occupied by three cores: Manilla, Orelans and Windsor. Manilla is the codename for new Sempr0ns, Orleans is the name for single-core AM2 offerings, while cream of the crop, dual-cores will come under the Windsor name.
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Windsor

AMD Athlon 64 FX-62
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+

Orleans

AMD Athlon 64 4000+
AMD Athlon 64 3800+
AMD Athlon 64 3500+

Manilla

AMD Sempron 3600+
AMD Sempron 3500+
AMD Sempron 3400+
AMD Sempron 3200+
AMD Sempron 3000+

Supposedly the new AM2 X2 4200+ will be priced and clocked similarly to the [existing] X2 3800+

This Italian news site also mentions "Socket AM2"...
 
Any info on clock speed, cache, etc anyone?
These first m2/am2 parts will be .09, no doubt.
 
Ruiner said:
Any info on clock speed, cache, etc anyone?
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i wouldn't be surprised if the difference between 939 and m2 is similar to the difference between s754 and s939.. same cache and pr, lose 200mhz on the s939 part
 
Ruiner said:
Any info on clock speed, cache, etc anyone?
These first m2/am2 parts will be .09, no doubt.
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All these cores are on the 90nm process.

Athlon FX 62 is rumored to be 2.667GHZ/2x1MB

2x512KB & 2x1MB cache are likely since this is still 90nm process.
 
Clock speed will be similar, but slighlty upped because with DDR2 the HTT clock will be bumped from 200MHz to 333MHz.

i.e.
S939 FX-60 = 2600MHz (200*13)
AM2 FX-62 = 2667MHz (333*8)
 
So there will really be no performance difference to speak of for M2 until .65 and the speed gains and price drops that should come with it, esp. for dual cores.

333HT gains zip, and any bandwidth to be gained by DDR2 is minimized by the onboard memory controller.

Were the rumors of onboard PCI-E just rumors, or for the next socket? That would be noticable.
 
Ruiner said:
Were the rumors of onboard PCI-E just rumors, or for the next socket? That would be noticable.
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it'll probably make it to socket F ;)

also, dual core will take advantage of ddr2 more than single core, as they tend to like a bit more bandwidth and lower latencies
 
Ruiner said:
Were the rumors of onboard PCI-E just rumors, or for the next socket? That would be noticable.
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I heard it'll happen on the next socket (with DDR3 support).
 
I think the most interesting part is the 333MHz HTT. I was hoping they would use that as a minimum instead of 200MHz
 
HTT clock @ 333Mhz for 667MHz DDR2... it would support 800MHz DDR2 just fine, right?
 
(cf)Eclipse said:
also, dual core will take advantage of ddr2 more than single core, as they tend to like a bit more bandwidth and lower latencies
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enough to show up in anything but superPi?
 
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