Showing posts with label Processors. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Processors. Show all posts
AMD gears up for 3.2GHz Athlon
IT SEEMS THAT the era of the Athlon 64 X2 will end with a product with numbered 6400+.
The company is obviously battling out leakage issues with K10 processors, as Charlie reports.
So it makes perfect sense to tweak up the existing line-up as high as possible.
A guinea-pig processor to try to sort out the problems is sampling right now to various partners, preparing for a launch designed ot coincide with the end of the summer holidays.
The highest-numbered model you can buy today is the 6000+. The 200MHz clock bump will yield a 400 PR mark increase, in line with AMD's policy of, um, exaggerated calibration. more....
The 3.0GHz Core 2 Extreme QX6850 Fastest consumer CPU benchmarked
Get ready for a taste of Xeon power without the premium price kids, Intel just released their 3.0GHz Core 2 Extreme QX6850 quad core processor for standard Intel Socket T (LGA775) boards. Better yet, the performance scores are already in after detailed reviews posted by Hot Hardware and PC Perspective. The latter calls the QX6850's performance "absolutely amazing" for a consumer level processor thanks to the Kentsfield XE class (65-nm) processor's 8MB (2x 4MB) L2 Cache and 1,333MHz front side bus. In fact, you can expect performance gains on the order of 2 to 13-percent (depending upon application tested) when compared to Intel's former consumer speed champ, the 2.93GHz Core 2 Extreme QX6800 with 1066MHz FSB. Look for the QX6850 to pop on-line for $999 over the next few weeks where it's expected to hold the performance title until the year is out. more...