AMD gears up for 3.2GHz Athlon

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Sneaking around the leaks

IT SEEMS THAT the era of the Athlon 64 X2 will end with a product with numbered 6400+.

The company is obviously battling out leakage issues with K10 processors, as Charlie reports (http://theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41202).

So it makes perfect sense to tweak up the existing line-up as high as possible.

A guinea-pig processor to try to sort out the problems is sampling right now to various partners, preparing for a launch designed ot coincide with the end of the summer holidays.

The highest-numbered model you can buy today is the 6000+. The 200MHz clock bump will yield a 400 PR mark increase, in line with AMD's policy of, um, exaggerated calibration.

This processor is expected to go up against Intel's Core 2 Duo E6850, which is nothing but a first Core 2 Extreme with a faster FSB - 1.33GHz instead of the 1.06GHz of yesteryear.

Preliminary benchmarks put the 3.2GHz Athlon above the 2.66GHz C2D E6700, but it comes a bit late, and performance is likely to be lower than that of the E6850. µ

http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=41203

I know it's the inquirer, but it makes sense.

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confirmed: http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/33019/139/

[Frozenfireside]

AMD flogging the dead horse...the very very very dead horse.

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Grabbing at straws would also be a fitting metaphor.

[Gldm]

Barcelona is late. Sooooooooooo late! I know they've "announced" it but good luck finding one in a PC before the end of the year. Intel is probably going to stop holding the 45nm chips in any time now, since there isn't a point in waiting once their yields per wafer pass the current 65nm models.

[Frozenfireside]

Um does anyone know if theres a performance difference between kentsfield and core 2 duo or are they the same thing?
I hope/think that they are the same.

[GeometriX]

Wait, what? Kentsfield is the quad core, so it's like, twice as fast ;)

I think you mean Wolfdale, which will be the new Core 2 Duo after Conroe. And, yes, it's most likely going to be faster. Unless you just mean the new batch of Conroes, with the whole 1333 thing they've got going on, in which case, clock-for-clock, they're pretty much the same speed. Can't think what else you could possibly mean, but I'm pretty sure I've covered all the bases.