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 AMD has officially released the AMD Turion 64 processor. This Socket 754 processor is based on the core K8 E revision and consequently features the SSE3. Intended to compete with the Pentium M, it has been released in several versions. The first difference is the power consumption: 35 Watts for the «ML» models and 25 Watts for the « MT » models. The denomination of the AMD Turion 64 is the completed by a sort of new P-Rating to classify them by performance level:
ML-30 : 1.6 GHz, 1 MB of cache L2, 35 Watts, 184$
MT-30 : 1.6 GHz, 1 MB of cache L2, 25 Watts, 189$
ML-32 : 1.8 GHz, 512 KB of cache L2, 35 Watts, 220$
MT-32 : 1.8 GHz, 512 KB of cache L2, 25 Watts, 225$
ML-34 : 1.8 GHz, 1 MB of cache L2, 35 Watts, 263$
MT-34 : 1.8 GHz, 1 MB of cache L2, 25 Watts, 268$
ML-37 : 2.0 GHz, 1 MB of cache L2, 35 Watts, 354$
It is interesting to notice that the MT version are $5 more expensive than the ML. |
