AMD Phenom II triple-core and quad-core

AMD’s exclusive rival on X86 microprocessor, Intel launched Core i7 Series Processor last week in a big way. Core i7 becomes a quad-core processor, but it doesn’t suppress its competitor by numbers, even though it supports Hyper-threading. AMD doesn’t think much about this, but users will do.

Phenom II Processor’s code name is “Deneb”. It will be the first triple-core processor backed by 45nm technology. AMD Phenom II triple-core and quad-core will be named in a new way. Triple-core will come out as Phenom II 700 Series, and quad-core products include Phenom II 800 and 900 Series with 6MB and 8MB of total L2 and L3 cache respectively.

Phenom II Series will come to us with 920 and 930 models firstly. The naming scheme is the same as Core i7. Their release date is scheduled to be Jan 18th, but according to latest information, it might be postponed till March 2009. The frequency of Phenom II 920/940 is 2.8GHz and 3.0GHz. They feature AM2+ socket, supporting DDR2-1066, not DDR3. Their TDPs are as high as 125W.

Besides improved L2+L3 cache capacity, slightly upgraded frequency and additional DDR3 support (920/940 only support DDR2), we can say 45nm Phenom II processor hardly bring something new to us. I am afraid that AMD will need to worry about its situation in 2009.

source en.expreview.com