New 45nm AMD Athlon IIs listed

45W quads and tri-cores, 3GHz duals

Several 45nm Athlons have popped up on price search engines. Although we already talked about most of them, we've got a few more specs this time around, although we still don't have any prices.

Let's start off with the new flagship quad-core Athlons, based on the Propus core with no L3 cache. Two models have popped up, the Athlon II X4 605e and 600e. Both feature 4x512kb of L2 cache, HT up to 4.0GB/s, and dual-channel DDR3 1333 memory support. The 605e runs at 2.3GHz, while the 600e is clocked at 2.2GHz. Bear in mind that these are "e" series power efficient parts, and the TDP is an impressive 45W, a first for desktop quad-cores.

Moving on to tri-core, Rana-based CPUs, we can see two models, the 400e and 405e. They are clocked at 2.2GHz and 2.3GHz respectively. The rest of the spec is similar to that of the 6xxe series, minus one core.

And for the first time AMD has gone 45nm with its dual cores. The Athlon II X2 250 and 245 are Regor-based. They are clocked at 3.0GHz and 2.9GHz respectively. Unlike the new quad and tri-core parts, these are not power efficient models, and the TDP is rated at 65W, which is still adequate.

thanks : fudzilla.com

AMD had 19.8% of EMEA desktop share in Q1

According to the fresh information from IDC, in the EMEA market AMD scored 19.8 percent of total desktop market in Q1 2009. Intel grew its market share to 80.2 percent.

A year before in Q1 2008 AMD had 23.7 percent, while Intel had 76.2 percent of the desktop market share, and others had 0.2 percent of market share and AMD managed to drop down to 20.7 percent in Q4 2008 while Intel grew to 79.3 percent.

The picture is still quite pretty when it comes to desktop CPUs and in mobile CPUs Intel has more than 90 percent of the market. At least in EMEA AMD didn’t do that well and it didn’t managed to grow the market in Europe but it didn’t lose the market share drastically, just 0.9 percent from Q4 2008, while Intel gained just as much.

Credit : fudzilla.com

The Core 2 Quad Q8400 VS Phenom II 940

Q8400 quad-core chip running at 2.66GHz with a 2MB L2 per pair of cores (4MB total). It’s like two Pentium Dual Core processors on a single package.

These chips actually have a 6MB L2 but with 2MB disabled either because they have irrecoverable defects in the cache or simply to hit the right price point. In other words, the Q8400 is literally a Q9400 but with 2MB of its L2 disabled.







Source : Anandtech.com