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Written by Rowan Volker
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Monday, 03 December 2007 |
The AMD Phenom has arrived. The breakthrough new quad core technology gives the new processor the leading advantage when comparing the quad core with any of its competitors. The quad core system, AMD’s Direct Connect Architecture on-chip, ensures that all four cores have optimum access to the integrated memory controller and integrated HyperTransport links, so that performance scales well with the number of cores. This design is also highlighted by a unique shared L3 cache for quicker data access and Socket AM2 and Socket AM2+ infrastructure compatibility to enable a seamless upgrade path.
“AMD’s quad-core processor rollout will put more computing horsepower at PC users' fingertips,” observed Nathan Brookwood, research fellow at Insight 64. “Quad-core innovations come at a time when many users are finding that the combination of Microsoft Vista™, multi-threaded applications and DirectX 10 no longer delivers the crisp performance they experienced on last year’s fastest systems running last year’s software. The AMD Phenom processor’s ability to deliver significantly more performance within the same power and thermal envelopes as its dual-core antecedents should make this quad-core processor a fitting follow-on to earlier AMD dual-core processor offerings.”
The processors will range from Quad core 2.2GHz Phenom 9500, 2.3GHz Phenom 9600 and 2.4GHz and 2.6GHz Phenom 9700 and 9900 respectively. But will it match the latest Core2Quad offering from Intel? From this early stage, with the Phenom is still based on the old 60nm technology it doesn’t look like it. But be sure that AMD are on the comeback, with the true quad core architecture in place all AMD need to do is increase the clock speed and we’ll see the gap quickly closing.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 21 February 2008 )
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