Core 2’s Worthy Competitor- AMD Phenom?

Advance Micro Devices (AMD)

Later this year in Q3, we will be seeing the fruits of its labour in the consumer market and it won’t just be another refresh of the Athlon 64 range, it’ll be an entirely new branding under the name ‘Phenom’.
-bit-tech.net

Phenom, which AMD derived from the word Phenomenal, is the latest processor that AMD will launch later this year, Q3 to be exact. AMD outlines the quad-core processor’s features as follows:

  • up to 40% improvement over the competition
  • the same power/thermals as dual-core AMD Opteron™ processors
  • seamless upgrade from dual-core to quad-core
  • consistent platform and transitions
  • transitioned to 65nm, replacing the former 90nm parts
  • TDP limits at or below 65W
  • native, true multi-core capability

The 6-page bit-tech.net article further discusses some technical aspects of the processor. Will we finally see a re-emerging AMD through Phenom? Does Intel Core 2 have a worthy competitor this time? We’ll have to see the benchmarks when Phenom arrives (in the coming months).

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3 Responses to “Core 2’s Worthy Competitor- AMD Phenom?”

  1. Doz Says:
    May 17th, 2007 at 17:12

    Shame hardly any home user applications cater for DUAL core let alone quad!

  2. maria clara Says:
    May 19th, 2007 at 19:46

    Hi Gabo,

    how are you?

    can i plug this phenom cpu into my sempron 3200+ am2 mobo?

    have a nice weekend.

    clare marie

  3. Gabriel Says:
    May 20th, 2007 at 9:19

    Hello Clare Marie,

    I’m fine. Thanks for asking.

    AMD Phenom Processors come in many variants. We have the Phenom X4 , Phenom X2 and Phenom FX processors. According to this article:

    Phenom will work in current Socket-AM2/Socket-1207 motherboards with a BIOS update, but it loses the ability to run its north bridge and CPU cores at separate voltages/clock frequencies. If you buy a new Socket-AM2+/Socket-1207+ motherboard, then the CPU cores and north bridge can run at separate voltages/frequencies. The benefit of doing this is not only power savings, but AMD has indicated that it can actually run the north bridge faster than the CPU cores (by 200 - 400MHz) which will improve performance.

    Socket-1207 is also branded as Socket F.

    @Doz,
    You are so right dude. I for one could not be able to use all four cores with the applications that I use. I just hope this won’t eat up so much power since electric bills are a big issue to me.

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