ITOCP was able to take a few photos of the Phenom 45nm Deneb in standby and in action. It will be part of the second generation of the "Stars" family of processors and will succeed the Barcelona. This Deneb is not a simple "die shrink" as it will have an L3 cache as high as 6 MB while L2 is fixed at 512 KB per core.
Given that the multiplier of this "Engineering Sample" CPU was unblocked, it was able to go as high as 3441.3 MHz, which enabled it to obtain a score of 20.515 seconds in Super PI.
You may recall, AMD should launch at least two Phenom X4 45nm Denebs fitting into the socket AM2+
at the end of the year. While frequencies remain unknown, we can now hope that these processors will slightly reinforce the attractiveness of solutions from the Sunnyvale company. However, we will just have to see if these will actually be competitive compared to what Intel will have at the time...
