AMD Athlon 64 X2, Yummy!

stakey

Now this im looking forward to

AMD launches Dual-Core AMD Opteron™ processors for server and workstations and unveils AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core processor for consumers and business users

AMD officially launched its dual-core Opteron processors for high-end servers Thursday at an event in New York City. The company is also preparing a dual-core desktop processor dubbed the AMD Athlon 64 X2, which will launch in June and go head to head with Intel's dual-core Pentium chips.

Dual-core processors are the next evolution of AMD64’s Direct Connect Architecture and were designed from the ground up to directly connect two cores on a single die, along with memory, I/O and dedicated caches, improving overall system performance and efficiency and helping to eliminate the bottlenecks inherent in a front-side-bus architecture.


The 800 Series Opteron is available now and designed for four- to eight-way servers, while the 200 Series processors aimed at two-way servers and workstations will ship late May.

The company says its dual-core chips use the same power and infrastructure as their single-core brethren, meaning a new chipset will not be required - only a BIOS upgrade.

Intel's dual-core chips, on the other hand, will require new motherboards with supporting chipset.

AMD’s key OEM customers, including Sun, HP and IBM, announced their intention to launch ground-breaking, dual-core processor-based platforms based on the non-disruptive AMD64 dual-core technology, the world’s leading x86, 64-bit computing environment. Additional partners also announced dual-core systems.

Press Release
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~97108,00.html

and a nice visual presentation:
http://multicore.amd.com/WhatIsMC/

ta ta

BopNiblets

Pffft, why?
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=22679

Azza

That inquirer report is wrong as by the time those Dual Core cpu's are
released so will the FX 57 and there is alot speculation there could be a 59 and 61 FX series.

Asides from which gamers may see a performace decrease from a dual core but who's to say that gamers only play games and do no encoding or multitasking and may get a performance benefit that outways the loss of performance in there games.

BopNiblets

Yeah.... well, I'm still not buying them!

*runs*

Azza

No the price is kinda scary for the dual cores and high end single cores.

stakey

pfft...???

dont see this being called the games forum, its computers...