
Posted on Tuesday, August 05 2003 @ 19:38 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
The Dutch site Tweakers reports some news about AMD his upcoming CPUs. According to the German
Planet 3DNow! AMD will call his high-end desktop version of the Hammer-core the Athlon 64 FX. First the Athlon 64 FX will use the same socket 940 as the AMD Opteron, but later AMD will reduce the amound of pins to 939 to make the difference between both clearer. The normal Socket 754-version without Dual Channel DDR memory support will be called the Athlon 64 and will have the normal 'old' PR rating from AMD.
A new thing is that AMD will use a new special rating for the Athlon 64 FX, comparable to the rating of the Opterons.
|
Athlon
64 |
Athlon
64 FX |
Opteron |
1,4GHz |
|
|
x40 |
1,6GHz |
|
|
x42 |
1,8GHz |
|
|
x44 |
2,0GHz |
3200+ |
FX-51 |
x46 |
2,2GHz |
3400+ |
FX-53 |
(x48?) |
2,4GHz |
3700+ |
FX-55 |
(x50?) |
|
|
I think a lot of confusion is coming up, first AMD introduces the PR rating, and now the FX rating, what is next?
Source :
Tweakers.net