how the AMDs differ form names(clawhammer, vanice........)

Hi,

I'm going to buy a AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (soket 939) processor. Please let me know how to identify it's name(I mean weather it is vanice or clawhammer or another one) form it's model number. I'm searching for this because, Tom's hardware's processor benchmarks indicates that the AMD Athlon 64 3500+(vanice) is in somewhat higher place than other Athlon 64 3500+ (soket 939) processors under the same configurations(mainboard, graphic card......etc)

And I also like to know how can these processors perform differently with the same clock speed and the multiplier with different names.

Thank you,
Nimesh

I dunno about the model names, but Kurita is right about the cores. Each core is tweaked differently.

Venice is the newest, and what you should be looking at. When you buy make sure the product description explicitly states what socket the CPU is. (You want socket 939. There are socket AM2 Athlon 64 3500 available!)

And again, they preform differently because of the various optimizations in the CPU architecture, not just changing clock speed.

I'm not sure either about that amd 64 3500+. But if I were you I'd wait for the "Farthammer" to come out. It's supposed to win out penryn by lots. If it ever comes out that is.

The Answer is...buy an X2 instead!

Hi again,

Thanks to all of you for replying me, you guys are very helpful. According to m25 the venices' model numbers are ends with "BP", but Unfortuantely in my country, only available "BW"s (ADA3500DAA4BW). can you please tell me what is the name for this one and then I can check out the performance charts and buy the best one.

And I also like to know, it is said to as nVidia chipsets are better than VIA chipsets even they transfer rates are equal. is this true?

Thanx
Nimesh