The list of supported features and implemented technologies is the same as on older Phenom II models, with just one major difference, called TurboCore. But then again, redesigning the memory controller or cache buffer would not make Phenom II X6 such an affordable buy. Now that pool could have been bigger, or rather it should be bigger for six cores, and together with dual channel memory it presents a possible bottleneck in performance with heavy threaded tasks. Each of the six processor cores has 128 KB of L1 cache, a total of 512 KB per core of L2 cache and they all share a big pool of 6 MB of 元 cache. As mentioned before, it bears a lot of similarities with the existing Phenom II line-up. The end result, and product we have in our hands today is codenamed Thuban. On the other hand, there was no real rush in getting out six core processors, as desktop applications rarely make good use of quad core processors. Now that we mentioned those six physical CPU cores, you have to know that it's not groundbreaking stuff for AMD as they shipped their first Istanbul six core server processor almost a year ago, and they've taken some good time to adapt that server version for desktop users. That being said, you can pair up the new Phenoms with either 1066 MHz DDR2 or 1333 MHz DDR3 memory, using the integrated dual channel memory controller, the same one as in other Phenom II processors, possibly with some minor tweaks and optimizations for six cores. So if you already own an AM2+/AM3 motherboard, check out your vendor's CPU support list, maybe you're in luck, or rather you should be in luck because at this moment there are close to 200 motherboard models supporting Phenom II X6.
#Amd k10 2 ghz update
But let's take it apart from the bottom to top.įirst off, many of you Socket AM2+/AM3 users will be very happy to hear that the new Phenom II X6 series is compatible with older existing motherboards as long as you have a BIOS update that adds Phenom II X6 support and power regulation strong enough to support 130 W processors. All together, what AMD produced this time is very a powerful and flexible processor, and yet very affordable. There's also another interesting feature that will help Phenom II X6 to shine no matter the workload environment. Sure, AMD added two more physical cores which is of course a big deal, but other than that, AMD just used all of the potential of K10.5 that was already there.
Why? Because AMD's new Phenom II X6 series, or future Phenom II X4 T for that matter have little architecture changes over the "old" Phenom II X4 processors. If you've been following the development of AMD's K10 and K10.5 processor architecture you're going to feel right at home in this review.
0 kommentar(er)
