12-core Opterons on sale Two new Athlon II X4s on the way

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12-core Opterons on sale   Posted on 16/02/2010 at 15:33 by Benoit - source: Xbit Labs

	While the Phenom II X6s haven’t yet been announced, it’s now possible to buy 12-core Opterons. They haven’t yet been launched officialy and the news is therefore somewhat surprising. The leak comes from a reseller of servers and workstations, Oakville Mehlville Computers. They are selling a set of four Opteron 6174s on Ebay. They’re clocked at 2.2 GHz with 12 MB of L3 cache and 6 MB of L2 cache (512 KB per core). The memory controller used supports DDR3 at PC3-10600 on socket G34. We don’t have any information on the TDP but it must be high (45nm engraving) in spite of the chips low clock. These chps (codename Magny-Cours) are very probably based on Opteron 6-core dies, from which the Thubans will be made. Bids start at $6500 for these chips that don’t appear to be development models but real (pre) series versions.

Two new Athlon II X4s on the way   Posted on 16/02/2010 at 13:48 by Benoit

	Unable to compete with Intel in terms of brute performance, AMD is filling up the mid-range CPU segment with its Athlon II X2s and X4s that offer great performance/price ratios. Remember that these models are Phenom IIs without an L3 cache, which explains their good general performance levels. It’s with the Athlon II X4 640 and 645 that AMD counts on extending its range. They will be clocked at 3.0 GHz and 3.1 GHz respectively, supplanting the recent 635 clocked at 2.9 GHz. The Athlon II 640 is expected in the second quarter of 2010, with the 645 coming in the third. These two processors are going to have their hands full opposite Intel’s i3s and i5s engraved at 32nm.