Posted on Wednesday, September 12 2007 @ 18:33 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
X-bit Labs says AMD
has confirmed that it will debut 2.5GHz quad-core processors in December, along with the launch of the Phenom processors for the desktop platform.
Randy Allen, corporate vice president of server and workstation division at AMD, said during the quad-core AMD Opteron launch conference that while initially AMD’s chips with four processing engines work only at up to 2.0GHz clock-speed, in December the company will be in position to offer 2.5GHz chips. But 25% speed increase will bring only up to 15% performance improvement, said Mr. Allen.
“AMD today shows the path to better performing design for demanding data center requirements, again. In fact, here is a proof to you of our 2.50GHz [quad-core] processor that is going to be available in December and what it is going to deliver to the market. […] This chart shows incremental performance that is going to be delivered on top of that existing [2.0GHz] product: you can see 15% performance benefit, 15% performance increase that will be delivered [by] our 2.50GHz product,” said Randy Allen.
In addition to clock-speed increase of server processors late this year, the chipmaker also promised to deliver the first AMD Phenom processors for desktops in December, though, remained tight-lipped regarding their working frequencies and other peculiarities.
Earlier it was reported that the 2.2-2.4GHz Phenom FX-80 CPU would arrive in December while the FX-90 and FX-91, which are clocked between 2.2GHz and 2.6GHz, are set for Q1 2007.
