AMD Phenoms to surpass 3 GHz (Follow up)

[helmutcheese]

" Although AMD managed to showcase a quad-core Phenom CPU running at 3 GHz, skeptics have labeled the move a marketing stunt that doesn't really say anything about the frequency capabilities of the upcoming K10 processors. Although it is true that 3 GHz parts will not be arriving in time to take the performance crown from Intel's upcoming 45nm CPUs, the Phenoms will eventually get to that speed and even surpass it as the latest revision has done wonders to the K10s clocks.

The newest revision, as confirmed by Fudzilla, enables Phenom X4s codename Agena to top around 3.2-3.24 GHz while their little dual-core brothers, the X2 Kumas will be able to reach 3.4 GHz, with air cooling of course. The results are pretty interesting as AMD is using the 65nm process but, do note that these high-end CPUs will only be released if necessary, in 2008.

Competition will be back with a vengeance in 2008. "

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http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?id=15545&catid=2&highlight=3+ghz

 

[helmutcheese]

Correct, he does not know, nobody here does.

I think both Dual and Quads fit todays AM2 Mobo's (not 100% on this) but you lose HT 3.0, no big deal today esp with 1x GPU set up and the new powersaving aspects (cant remember term)

 

[helmutcheese]

Until Nehalem arrives, Intel will be seriously hampered by the FSB. Nehalem will pinch AMD's ideas of the onboard memory controller and hypertransport bus but until that happens, Phenom could steal a march on Intel.

Don't forget that overclocking, which allows cheap C2Ds to achieve stellar performance and also alleviates the FSB bottleneck, is of no interest to the vast majority of customers. If the Phenom can put in superior benches to Penryn and is released a decent time prior to Nehalem then Intel could find themselves with some real competition.

Nothing new there , Intel used Hyperthreading which was invented and patented by AMD in 2002, but they dropped it due to fact short fat pipes in AMD architecture did not really benefit from it like Intels longer thinner pipes.

 

[helmutcheese]

Not really, they had agreement about the X86 tech and use of it, the X86 CPU was not actually the best avail at the time, there was a Russian CPU in the works that was amazing but they could not fund it.

 

[helmutcheese]

Hmm, it was like in 2001/02 I heard about it, not sure what to use a keywords in Google,