October 4th, 2006
What AMD has in store for us?
What does AMD have in store for us over the next three months? According to slides leaked by the German site Planet3DNow it seems that we can expect a number of Athlon CPUs based on both 90nm and 65nm architecture.
There's some interesting stuff. This month we can expect AMD to ship two new AM2-based, 90nm Sempron CPUs.
| CPU | Clock Speed (GHz) | L2 Cache (KB) | TDP (W) |
| 3500+ | 2.0 | 128 | 35 |
| 3800+ | 2.2 | 256 | 62 |
November will see the release of the Athlon 64 X2 5400+, 5600+ and 6000+. These dual-core Socket AM2 CPUs will be based on the 90nm "Windsor" architecture. Here's the low-down on the CPUs:
| CPU | Clock Speed (GHz) | L2 Cache (MB) | TDP (W) |
| 5400+ | 2.8 | 1 | 89 |
| 5600+ | 2.8 | 2 | 89 |
| 6000+ | 3.0 | 2 | 125 |
At some time in December, AMD will ship Athlon 64 X2's based on the "Brisbane" 65nm architecture.
| CPU | Clock Speed (GHz) | L2 Cache (MB) | TDP (W) |
| 4000+ | 2.1 | 1 | 65 |
| 4400+ | 2.3 | 1 | 65 |
| 4800+ | 2.5 | 1 | 65 |
| 6000+ | 3.0 |
1 | 65 |
On paper, some of these CPUs look good, but until we start to see some serious benchmarks done, it's hard to know if anything here comes close to the Intel Core 2 Duo CPUs.
Over the course of 2007 AMD expects Socket 754 and Socket 939 to be slowly superceded by the newer Socket AM2. Here are the CPUs that AMD have slated for the chop, along with the last orders date:
| CPU | Last Order Date |
| FX-62 | End of Q4 06 |
| FX-60 | End of Q4 06 |
| X2 4600+ (S 939) | End of Q4 06 |
| X2 4200+ (S 939) | End of Q4 06 |
| 3800+ (S 939) | End of Q3 06 |
| 3500+ (S 939) | End of Q3 06 |
| 3200+ (AM2) | End of Q4 06 |
| 3000+ (AM2) | End of Q4 06 |
| Sempron 3400+ (S 754) | End of Q4 06 |
Also, the end of the single-core Socket 939 CPUs is also close.
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