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AMD Unveils New Athlon II, Phenom II Chips
Techtree News Staff, Jan 26, 2010 0830 hrs ISTFive new 45nm process made dual-core, tri-core and quad-core chips added to AMD lineup
AMD has introduced new Athlon II and Phenom II processors just after Intel's recently announced Clarkdale Core i3 and Core i5 processors. The new 45nm AMD chips include three AMD Athlon II chips and two AMD Phenom chips. All these new chips offer 100MHz higher clockspeeds at the same price point.
The new AMD Athlon chips bring dual-core Athlon II X2 255, tri-core Athlon II X3 440 and Athlon II X4 635. All these Athlon chips don't have any L3 caches and that differentiates them from Phenom II chips. Athlon II X2 255 dual-core chip with 1MB L2 Cache is clocked at 3.1GHz which is higher than the tri-core 3.0GHz Athlon II X3 440 chip with 1.5MB L2 cache. While the quad-core Athlon II X4 635 is clocked at 2.9GHz with 2MB L2 cache.
However, the surprising part is the thermal packaging of all three Athlon II chips. The X2 225 has TDP rating of 65W while the X3 440 has TDP of 95, which is as much as that of X4 635. The pricing of these Athlon II chips per 1000 unit tray are:
Athlon II X2 - $74 (Rs. 3550 approx.)
Athlon II X3 - $84 (Rs. 4032 approx.)
Athlon II X4 - $119 (Rs. 5712 approx.)
While the two new Deneb core based chips include dual-core 3.2GHz Phenom II 555 Black Edition with 1MB L2 cache, 6MB L3 cache and TDP of 85Watts. This new chip is build from C3-revision silicon claiming to having hardware C1E and may offer better overclock potential than previous silicon steppings. Though other dual-core Phenom II chips vanished in thin air, this chip will be available at price of $99.
Now the quad-core 2.6GHz Phenom II X4 910e has 2MB L2 Cache and 6MB L3 cache with low TDP rating of 65W. Sounds like a good deal specification wise but this chip costs $169 (Rs. 8110). These can't be compared to Intel's recently announced 32nm Westmere chips as those chips pack 45nm integrated graphics along with 32nm CPU core.
The new AMD Athlon chips bring dual-core Athlon II X2 255, tri-core Athlon II X3 440 and Athlon II X4 635. All these Athlon chips don't have any L3 caches and that differentiates them from Phenom II chips. Athlon II X2 255 dual-core chip with 1MB L2 Cache is clocked at 3.1GHz which is higher than the tri-core 3.0GHz Athlon II X3 440 chip with 1.5MB L2 cache. While the quad-core Athlon II X4 635 is clocked at 2.9GHz with 2MB L2 cache.
However, the surprising part is the thermal packaging of all three Athlon II chips. The X2 225 has TDP rating of 65W while the X3 440 has TDP of 95, which is as much as that of X4 635. The pricing of these Athlon II chips per 1000 unit tray are:
Athlon II X2 - $74 (Rs. 3550 approx.)
Athlon II X3 - $84 (Rs. 4032 approx.)
Athlon II X4 - $119 (Rs. 5712 approx.)
While the two new Deneb core based chips include dual-core 3.2GHz Phenom II 555 Black Edition with 1MB L2 cache, 6MB L3 cache and TDP of 85Watts. This new chip is build from C3-revision silicon claiming to having hardware C1E and may offer better overclock potential than previous silicon steppings. Though other dual-core Phenom II chips vanished in thin air, this chip will be available at price of $99.
Now the quad-core 2.6GHz Phenom II X4 910e has 2MB L2 Cache and 6MB L3 cache with low TDP rating of 65W. Sounds like a good deal specification wise but this chip costs $169 (Rs. 8110). These can't be compared to Intel's recently announced 32nm Westmere chips as those chips pack 45nm integrated graphics along with 32nm CPU core.
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