New AMD Phenom Details

Tue 2007-10-16 - Posted by Patrick "MACMAC" MacMillan

DailyTech has just posted some new information regarding AMD’s upcoming Phenom processors.

Here’s what they had to say:

“AMD plans to debut its initial quad-core Phenom processors in late November: the Phenom 9600 and 9500. The 9600 will come clocked at 2.4GHz and the 9500 will have a slightly lower operating frequency of 2.2GHz.

Both Socket AM2+ processors feature a 512KB of L2 cache for each core and a shared 2MB pool of L3 cache. In addition, both processors will operate on a 3.6GHz HyperTransport bus and will have an 89 Watt Thermal Design Power envelope.”

It’s good to see the clock rates slowly improving, however significant improvements still need to be made if AMD expects to take the performance crown.

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