Advanced Micro Devices on Thursday said it had begun shipments of its triple-core central processing units (CPUs) to large makers of personal computers (PCs). AMD Phenom 8000-series microprocessors will be available for end-users and small system makers at a later time.
The world’s second largest maker of x86 processors did not reveal specifications of the chips that it is shipping to its partners. However, based on information earlier revealed by unofficial sources, AMD started to ship AMD Phenom models 8450 (2.10GHz) and 8650 (2.30GHz) with 1.5MB level-two cache and 2MB of level-three cache based on B2 stepping of the core. AMD has not confirmed the specifications of its chips.
AMD Phenom B2 stepping processors are known for TLB-erratum, which may cause system freezes in certain rare cases and which can be fixed at the cost of about 10% of performance. AMD Phenom CPUs based on B3 stepping are erratum-free, thus, should show a little bit higher performance.
Earlier companies like Dell and HP demonstrated interest towards triple-core AMD Phenom 8000-series and intended to install them into their systems.
At press time AMD’s online price-list did not contain any mention of triple-core AMD Phenom 8000-series central processing units.
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the (marketing) maths is simple...
3 x 2 ghz = 2 x 3 ghz....
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Posted by: abw
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Date: 03/13/08 03:15:31 PM]
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(3 x 2 ghz = 2 x 3 ghz)-1.5ghz tlb bug
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Posted by: Mr. BonBon
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Date: 03/13/08 04:09:02 PM]
"AMD 2.0GHz processor was never mentioned"
2.1 GHz, 2.3 GHz close enough..
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Posted by: Silver
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Date: 03/17/08 04:53:22 AM]
Except an AMD 2.0GHz processor was never mentioned...nor an intel one.
Idiots, i should have stopped reading comments on xbitlabs long ago.
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Posted by: Skywalker
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Date: 03/13/08 07:25:04 PM]
That is true for some multi threaded applications...
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Posted by: 31415
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Date: 03/13/08 08:22:52 PM]
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seems very close to a quadcore in speed....
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Posted by: drama queens...
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Date: 03/14/08 09:54:43 PM]
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I wonder why AMD is releasing a "Bugy" B2 stepping processors? Are they falling in love with criticism? Didn't they learn from their Phenom lesson yet?
I have to find many answers before I go on bed with AMD.
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Posted by: AMD ADVocate
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Date: 03/16/08 02:25:29 AM]
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well, because they are not buggy if you updated your bios, that's the ground they are standing on while releasing buggy products.
of course this bios update will reduce performance by around 10% in most applications, but you can't sue them for LOWER performance than Intel, can you?!
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Posted by: Me, expressing myself
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Date: 03/16/08 03:18:36 AM]
I'm still a proponent of AMD. I believe they have awesome technologies under the hood. They are just doomed by their incompetent management which keeps turning them down every time they try to leap. Hector is agonizing AMD, it's partners and customers as well.
AMD is a company with potential. Yet to be discovery after coup d'etat of Hector's management.
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Posted by: AMD ADVocate
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Date: 03/16/08 09:44:52 AM]
totally agree, though with the current market status + accelerated intel road-map combined with intel advantage in both performance and power, i can't see AMD getting up from such a fall before 2 years from now or something, which will probably kill the company at some point or get another share of it sold or something.
Anyway, ATi is doing GOOD, not EXCELLENT, but good enough, specially in the HD content playback and such, may be this will help AMD a bit to stand back "which i doubt"
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Posted by: Me, expressing myself
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Date: 03/16/08 12:21:56 PM]
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Yawn...................
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Posted by: unclesharkey
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Date: 03/17/08 12:58:44 PM]
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