Phenom Models/Clocks/Cache and TDP Announced - Launch Q3 07

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Dailytech just posted an AMD slide giving details of the launch models for the next generation Phenom and Athlon models.

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I just hope i can drop that Phenom X4 in to my AM2 motherboard like they said i could. 89W TDP!!! So thats more like 65W under normal usage. These may just be worth the wait and overclock nicely to boot.

 

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89W TDP on quad cores? 2MB L3 cache? All 4 cores on the same die?

Could be in for some interesting times......

Aye, and as i said, that is 89W MAX TDP. In Intel terms it is something like 65W or less. Imagine the low power versions of these.

The conroe smokes the K8, to keep up tradtion the Phenom will have to smoke the conroe.. I don't see that happening easily.

Lets not get carried away here. Clock for clock is it 10-20% better, there or there abouts, than a 3-4 year old architecture. It is the fact that is overclocks so well where the big benefit comes.
AMD have been touting an 80% improvement for the K10 in some areas. Obviously this will be mainly in the encoding side with the new SSE instructions and better SSE execution but still.
Lets hope though, like you say, that the Phenom is a belter.

 

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plus i think amd are gonna pull one of intels tricks and stick 2 quads together for the first octo - core chip!

looks like its starting to get interesting again!

think il be waiting for a native quad core if the benchies show some good results

At an 89W TDP for the quad cores, i highly doubt it. Maybe if they can get the TDP down to 65W in the low power models. Still, i don't think we will see it till 2H 08 when 43nm comes about.

Intel will no doubt do it before that with Nehalem, being that it is a true quadcore.